Duggleby is a hamlet in the civil parish of Kirby Grindalythe, in North Yorkshire, England. It was historically part of the East Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. It was part of the Ryedale district from 1974 to 2023. It is 20 miles (32.2 km) north-east of York and 16 miles (25.7 km) south-west of Scarborough.
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Duggleby Howe is one of the largest round barrows in Britain, located on the southern side of the Great Wold Valley in the county of North Yorkshire, and is one of four such monuments in this area, known collectively as the Great barrows of East Yorkshire. Duggleby Howe is believed on the basis of artefacts recovered to be of Late Neolithic date, but no radiocarbon dates are available. Howe as a place name is believed to have originated from the Old Norse word haugr.
The monument consists of a mound, the base of which was 120 feet in diameter. The top of the barrow was apparently truncated at some point in the past, leaving an almost-level platform some 47 feet in diameter. On this was constructed a post mill of medieval type. The mound was 22 feet high at the eastern end and 18 or 19 feet high at the western end.
The barrow lies within a roughly circular enclosure, approximately 370 metres in diameter, formed from interrupted ditches, and open to the south. To the east of the barrow, one within the enclosure and one outside, are two ring ditches, believed to be of Bronze Age date. Although the barrow itself was long known, it was not until 1979 that the existence of the enclosure was confirmed using aerial photographs taken by D. N. Riley.
The barrow was first excavated in either 1798 or 1799 by the Reverend Christopher Sykes, but no records of his excavation remain. Beginning on 21 July 1890 J. R. Mortimer, under the sponsorship of Sir Tatton Sykes, excavated "an area of 40 feet square over the centre of the barrow, and a portion of the east side" over a period of more than six weeks. This excavation was re-assessed by Ian Kinnes, Timothy Schadla-Hall, Paul Chadwick and Philip Dean in 1983 to produce the interpretation presented below.
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Wharram-le-Street is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Wharram, in North Yorkshire, England.
Until the 1974 local government reorganisation, Wharram-le-Street was part of the East Riding of Yorkshire, and from 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Ryedale. Since 2023, it is administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
The village is on the B1248 road between North Grimston and the boundary with the present East Riding of Yorkshire unitary authority.
The Church of England parish church of St Mary is late Anglo-Saxon and is a Grade I listed building.
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St Andrew's Church is the parish church of Kirby Grindalythe, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.
A church was built on the site in the 12th century, from which period the lower part of the tower survives, along with some of the stonework of the nave. The upper part of the tower is 14th century, but the remainder of the building was reconstructed between 1872 and 1875 by G. E. Street. The building was grade II* listed in 1966. The church was temporarily closed in the 2000s due to falling masonry, but was restored at a cost of £500,000, most of which cost was met by English Heritage.
The church is built of sandstone and has a tile roof with pierced cresting. It consists of a nave with a clerestory, a north aisle, a south porch, a chancel with a north chapel and vestry, and a west tower. The tower has four stages,and a northeast stair turret with a conical roof. In the bottom stage is a doorway with a stepped round arch, above which are slit openings, a string course, two-light bell openings with pointed heads and hood moulds, a corbel table, a plain parapet with corner pinnacles, and a recessed octagonal spire with a weathervane. The roof is tunnel vaulted.
Inside the church, there is a sedilia, of which the outer seats are Norman; an aumbry, and a reused piscina. There is a square font which is a replica of a 12th-century font built into the tower. The west wall has a large mosaic of the Ascension of Jesus by an unknown Italian artist, and an alabaster and marble altarpiece by James Redfern. The stained glass windows are mostly by Clayton and Bell, with those in the south aisle by Burlison and Grylls. In the chapel is a 12th-century arcaded tomb, which may be that of Walter Espec.
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Wharram railway station was opened by the Malton and Driffield Railway in May 1853, serving the village of Wharram-le-Street in North Yorkshire, England, although the area was in the East Riding of Yorkshire at the time. The station was also near the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy and adjacent to Wharram chalk quarry.
The single platform station had a passing loop off its southern end, the only one on the line. It had the customary goods facilities for wayside stations, plus a siding into Wharram Quarry, dominated by a large chalk silo.
The line was originally conceived as part of a trunk route between Kingston-upon-Hull and the North East of England, but this came to very little. The station remained throughout its life as a country station on a country byway. In some periods of its life four passenger trains a day ran in each direction between Malton and Driffield, calling at all stations between, but for the most part just three called, with no Sunday service after the outbreak of the First World War. These trains were nicknamed the "Malton Dodger". They usually had either one or two coaches, often strengthened by one or more horse boxes in this racing country. Before the Second World War, intermittent excursion traffic called at Wharram to view the station's floral displays and well as the area's scenery.
In the summer of 1950, the station witnessed the passing of a Summer Saturday Filey to Newcastle train and return, which travelled via Driffield, Wharram and Gilling, joining the East Coast Main Line at Pilmoor Junction.
The station and line closed to passenger traffic in June 1950. Although it was said to be reasonably loaded on Saturdays, it carried few people except schoolchildren otherwise. The line and station were reopened to passengers in February 1953 and February 1958 when the area's roads were impassable due to snow.
Freight traffic and occasional passenger specials continued until the line closed completely on 20 October 1958, the last pickup goods having called on the 18th.
The quarry had "followed a similar pattern to North Grimston - rapid expansion in the post-First World War boom, enormous output in the 1920s, declining in the 1930s and fizzling out after the Second World War." In 1919 a private siding was built in the quarry with exits in both directions onto the running line. Traffic growth was dramatic, peaking in 1925 with 107,261 tons of chalk forwarded to Thirsk, bypassing Malton as the line had originally been conceived. This was down to 38,562 tons in 1926 and to a mere 3,000 tons in 1929. The quarry closed in 1930. It reopened later in the 1930s, but its output was sporadic and small scale, mainly travelling by road in bags. Such rail traffic as there was was mainly coal for the quarry's kilns. The quarry was disused by 1960 and has become a wildlife reserve.
The track was lifted shortly after closure, but the station building remained in use as a private residence. In 2005 the station's water tower remained in place.
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Kirby Grindalythe is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated about 8 miles south-east of Malton. The village lies in the Great Wold Valley and the course of the winterbourne stream the Gypsey Race passes through it.
The village lies in the Great Wold Valley and the course of the winterbourne stream the Gypsey Race passes through it. To the south-east of the hamlet is Duggleby Howe, one of the largest round barrows in Britain. Duggleby was formerly a township in the parish of Kirby-Grindalyth, in 1866 Duggleby became a separate civil parish, on 1 April 1935 the parish was abolished and merged with Kirby Grindalythe. In 1931 the parish had a population of 155. The name Duggleby derives from the Old Norse Dubgallbȳ meaning 'Dubgall's village'.
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