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The Sand Hutton Light Railway was a minimum-gauge estate railway serving the estate of Sir Robert Walker, the Fourth Baronet of Sand Hutton, Yorkshire. It connected the main house with the LNER Warthill Station and the village of Bossall. It replaced the earlier, shorter, 15 in (381 mm) gauge Sand Hutton Miniature Railway that was built in 1914.
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Warthill railway station
Warthill railway station was a station on the York to Beverley Line. It opened as Stockton station in 1847–8, was renamed to Stockton Forest (later Stockton-on-the-Forest) in 1867; in 1872 it became Warthill station. The station closed in 1959.
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Upper Helmsley
Upper Helmsley is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, about seven miles east of York. The population taken at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Gate Helmsley.
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St Mary's Church, Sand Hutton
St Mary's Church is the parish church of Sand Hutton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.
St Leonard's Church, Sand Hutton was a chapel of ease in the parish of St Botolph's Church, Bossall. From 1840 to 1842 a new church was constructed in its churchyard, to a design by Anthony Salvin, and dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus. In 1861, it was given its own parish, which included the village of Claxton. From 1885 to 1886, the church was remodelled by C. Hodgson Fowler, the work including the addition of a choir. The church was grade II listed in 1985.
The church is built of sandstone, incorporating medieval fabric in the tower, and has a Westmorland slate roof. The church consists of a nave, a south steeple, a chancel and a north organ chamber. The steeple has a tower with three stages, containing a porch with a pointed doorway, a lancet window above, paired bell openings and a broach spire. Inside, there is a memorial to Deborah Read, who died in 1794.
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Sand Hutton
Sand Hutton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, about 6 miles (10 km) north-east of York.