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Wormald Green
Wormald Green is a village in the civil parish of Markington with Wallerthwaite in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the A61 road between Harrogate and Ripon which crosses over Markington Beck here. In 2016, Harrogate Borough Council (HBC) estimated the population of the village to be 136. It was historically part of Claro Wapentake. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate. It is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
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Wormald Green railway station
Wormald Green railway station served the village of Wormald Green, North Yorkshire, England, from 1848 to 1964 on the Leeds-Northallerton Railway.
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South Stainley
South Stainley is a small village in the county of North Yorkshire, England. Nearby settlements include the city of Ripon, the town of Harrogate and the village of Markington. South Stainley is on the A61 road. South Stainley has a pub and a place of worship, St Wilfrid's Church, which is a grade II listed structure.
The village is mentioned in Domesday as having 30 plough lands and a meadow covering 8 acres (3.2 ha). The name has been recorded variously as Southe Stanley, South Stonley and Kyrke Staynelay. The name derives from the Old Norse of Nyrran Stanlege, which means "stony forest or glade clearing". The presence of the prefix Kirk is due to it having a church as opposed to North Stainley. Historically, the village was in the wapentake of Claro, part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, some 5 miles (8 km) south of Ripon. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
The village sits on Stainley Beck, a tributary of the River Ure, and the land is mostly magnesian limestone with a small outcrop of millstone grit around the village.
The population of the parish was 174 at the 2001 census, falling slightly to 172 at the 2011 census. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to be 180.
The village is the principal settlement in the civil parish of South Stainley with Cayton. Cayton, 1-mile (1.6 km) west of South Stainley, is the site of a deserted medieval village and a grange established by Fountains Abbey in the Middle Ages.
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Markington Hall
Markington Hall is a historic building in Markington, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.
The house was built in the 17th century, and altered in the 18th century. It replaced an earlier property, from which late 15th-century outbuildings survive, part of which has served as a chapel in the past. In the 1920s and 1930s, the house was extended to the rear, and the interior was restored and altered. William Wilberforce owned the house, letting it out to tenants, and it has remained in his family since; in the 21st century using the grounds and outbuildings for holiday lets. It has been Grade II listed since 1952, and the outbuildings are separately Grade II listed.
The house is built of gritstone and limestone, with moulded floor and eaves bands, and a stone slate roof. It has a two-storey three-bay hall range, and three-storey cross-wings with coped gables and shaped kneelers. In the centre is a doorway in an architrave, flanked by mullioned windows, and on the upper floor are sash windows. Elsewhere, most of the windows are mullioned.
The barn and the outbuildings are built of sandstone, limestone and cobble, and have pantile roofs, that of the barn with eaves courses of stone slate. The barn has a timber framed core, five bays and side aisles. On the front are quoins, a large doorway, and blocked slit vents. The chapel range projects at right angles on the left, and contains doorways and paired pointed windows.
Low Mill lies in the grounds of the hall.
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Low Mill, Markington
Low Mill is a historic building in Markington, a village in North Yorkshire in England.
The watermill was built in the early 19th century by the Wilberforce family, in the grounds of Markington Hall, with a mill race off Markington Beck. It was probably built to replaced High Mill, at the other end of the village. It was worked as a corn mill, and from the early 1900s it was run by J. Ross & Sons, who mostly produced animal feed. It was powered by water until 1967, when it was converted into a garage and office. The building was Grade II listed in 1986.
The mill is built of stone and rubble, with sandstone and limestone quoins, paired gutter brackets, and a Westmorland slate roof with gable copings. There are fronts of one and three bays, and on the right return is a two-storey lean-to range. In the left return is a sluice for the mill race. Inside, most the machinery survives, including the breastshot wheel, gearing, cogs, and grindstones.