Vale of York services

The Vale of York services (also known as Kirby Hill services) is a proposed motorway service area (MSA) on the A1(M) at Kirby Hill in North Yorkshire, England. The MSA site is located on the western side of the motorway between Junctions 48 and 49 near to the village of Kirby Hill, with access to both the northbound and southbound carriageways. Planning applications were submitted multiple times between 1996 and 2021 and were refused by Harrogate Borough Council and at Appeal for 25 years.

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Skelton Windmill

Skelton Windmill, also known as Kirby Mill, is a historic building in Skelton-on-Ure, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The windmill was constructed in 1822, to grind corn. The windows and door were replaced in the 20th century. After the mill closed, the cap and sails were removed, and its roof was used as a viewing platform, with railings placed around it. The building was grade II listed in 1987. It was later converted into a house, with the ground floor extended to provide additional living space. The tower is built of limestone, it is tapering, and has seven storeys. A flight of steps leads up to a doorway with a dated lintel. Elsewhere there are tiers of windows, a blocked doorway, a loading door and socket holes. At the top are wrought iron railings on a projecting band. Inside, there is a dining room on the ground floor, a kitchen and breakfast room on the first floor, main bedroom on the second floor, library and sitting room on the third floor, and further bedrooms on the upper floors.

Kirby-on-the-Moor

Kirby-on-the-Moor, now known as Kirby Hill, is a village in the Kirby Hill civil parish about 1 mile (1.6 km) north of the market town of Boroughbridge, in North Yorkshire, England.

All Saints' Church, Kirby-on-the-Moor

All Saints' Church is the parish church of Kirby-on-the-Moor, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was probably built in the 10th century, but uses even earlier materials. The north aisle was added in about 1170, followed by the chancel around 1200, and the north chapel later in the century. The chapel was enlarged in the 15th century, and the whole church was restored by George Gilbert Scott in 1870, who added the south porch. The building was grade I listed in 1966. The church is built of gritstone with roofs of stone slate and tile, and consists of a nave, a taller north aisle and chapel, a south porch, a lower chancel and a west tower. The tower has three stages, a two-light west window, paired lancet bell openings, a corbel table with a gargoyle on the west, a coped parapet, and a squat pyramidal slate roof with a weathercock. In the porch are worked stones, including one from the Saxon period, and the inner doorway has a round arch. Inside, the chapel has a squint to the chancel. The font is 11th century, reworked in the 14th century, with an 18th-century cover, and some of the bench ends date from the 15th century. In and around the church are 12 stones with Celtic carvings. At the base of the southwest corner of the church is a large granite block with a Roman inscription. It is too weathered to be legible, but it appears to be a dedication to either Antoninus Pius or Caracalla, which would make it second- or early third-century. The west tower has a ring of six bells. Richard Seliok of Nottingham cast the tenor bell in about 1520. Samuel II Smith of York cast the fourth bell in 1713 and the fifth bell in 1718. John Warner & Sons of Cripplegate, London cast the treble, second and third bells in 1869.

St Mary's Church, Marton-le-Moor

St Mary's Church is a deconsecrated Anglican church in Marton-le-Moor, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. There was a church in Marton-le-Moor in the Mediaeval period. It was rebuilt on the same site in 1830 at a cost of £130. In 1851, it could seat 160 parishioners, and had an average attendance of 50 each Sunday. The building was grade II listed in 1987. It closed in 2005, with items including the organ being moved to St John's Church, Sharow. In 2009, it was sold for conversion into a house, despite having no electric or water supply. The church is built of white limestone on the front, with grey limestone at the rear, and a stone slate roof with shaped kneelers and gable copings. It consists of a nave and a chancel under one roof, and a west porch. On the west gable is a bellcote. The door and the windows have pointed arches.