Vale of Pickering

The Vale of Pickering is a low-lying flat area of land in North Yorkshire, England. It is drained by the River Derwent. The landscape is rural with scattered villages and small market towns. It has been inhabited continuously from the Mesolithic period. The present economy is largely agricultural with light industry and tourism playing an increasing role. It is defined by the Yorkshire Wolds escarpment to the south, the Corallian limestone foothills of the North York Moors to the north, the North Sea coast to the east and the Howardian Hills to the west.

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Lake Pickering

Lake Pickering was an extensive proglacial lake of the Devensian glacial. It filled the Vale of Pickering between the North York Moors and the Yorkshire Wolds, when the (largely Scandinavian) ice blocked the drainage, which had flowed north-eastwards past the site of Filey towards the Northern North Sea basin. The lake surface rose until it overflowed southwards and cut an exit between the Howardian Hills and the Yorkshire Wolds at Kirkham Priory between Malton and Stamford Bridge, so creating the River Derwent. In modern times, as an artificial flood relief channel, much of the flow of the River Derwent (which drains a large area of the North York Moors) has been diverted, about 6 miles (10 km) upstream of West Ayton, before it reaches the plain of the Vale of Pickering, east into a new channel called the Sea Cut along a previously dry side valley (probably a glacial overflow channel) and into the existing Scalby Beck's course through Scalby, North Yorkshire to the North Sea. The idea of these lakes was first proposed in 1902, when Professor Percy Kendall of Leeds University published a paper detailing his theories. It has been suggested that lake Pickering was the largest inland lake in Britain at the end of the last Ice Age.

Knapton railway station

Knapton railway station was a minor railway station serving the villages of East Knapton and West Knapton in North Yorkshire, England. It was also the nearest railway station for Wintringham and Scampston, both of which are three miles from the station. Located on the York to Scarborough Line it was opened on 5 July 1845 by the York and North Midland Railway and closed to passengers on 22 September 1930.

Thornton Dale railway station

Thornton Dale railway station was situated on the North Eastern Railway's Pickering to Seamer branch line. It served the village of Thornton-le-Dale in North Yorkshire, England. The station opened to passenger traffic on 1 May 1882, and closed on 3 June 1950. The trains first arrived in the village in 1839 but the Pickering-Scarborough branch was not completed here until 1882. After regular service began, some agricultural workers left the area on the train, seeking paid jobs elsewhere. The station remained open for freight traffic to Pickering after the rest of the Forge Valley Line was closed and pulled up. A daily train took limestone (brought by lorry from a quarry north of the village) to Pickering from where it was taken forwards to Skinningrove Ironworks. Unfortunately the quarry company lost the contract to supply the ironworks and this traffic ceased by 1964. The last traffic into the station was two Presflo wagons of bulk cement for repairs to the village hall. Shortly afterwards two Wickham Railmotors from Pickering visited the line to check that all the fences were stock-proof and in due course contractors arrived and removed the track. The station building was cleared and converted into offices for a company building a (short lived) gas pipeline to Pickering. Subsequently, the property was used as a caravan park and the station was eventually converted into three holiday rental cottages.

St Francis' Church, Low Marishes

St Francis' Church is a chapel of ease in Low Marishes, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was constructed in 1861, as a chapel of ease to St Peter and St Paul's Church, Pickering. It is in the 13th-century Gothic style, with a prominent spire. Its designer is unknown, but the church claims that "the competence of its design suggests the work of a major architect". A porch was added in about 1870. The church was grade II listed in 1996. In 2004, it was discovered that the church had never received a licence for public worship. When one was granted, the church was dedicated to Saint Francis. The church is built of red brick, with dressings in blue brick and stone, and a slate roof. It consists of a nave and a chancel in one cell, and an added west porch. On the roof is a square wooden bell turret with an octagonal shingled spire. On the north and south walls are buttresses, and recessed pointed arches containing circular windows. Inside, there are a wooden chancel screen, altar, reredos, altar rail, octagonal pulpit and pews.

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