Beningbrough Hall

Beningbrough Hall est un grand manoir géorgien situé près du village de Beningbrough, dans le Yorkshire du Nord, en Angleterre, et surplombe la rivière Ouse. Il présente des intérieurs baroques, des escaliers en porte-à-faux, des sculptures sur bois et des couloirs centraux qui s'étendent sur toute la longueur de la maison. Extérieurement, la maison est un manoir géorgien en briques rouges avec une grande allée menant à la façade principale et un jardin clos. La maison abrite plus de 100 portraits prêtés par la National Portrait Gallery. Il possède un restaurant, une boutique et un magasin de jardinage et est sélectionné en 2010 pour le Guardian Family Friendly Museum Award. Le manoir est situé sur un vaste terrain et en est séparée par un exemple de ha-ha (un mur creux) pour empêcher les moutons et le bétail d'entrer dans les jardins ou dans le manoir.

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River Nidd

The River Nidd is a tributary of the River Ouse in the English county of North Yorkshire. It rises in Nidderdale at Nidd Head Spring on the slopes of Great Whernside. In its first few miles it has been dammed three times, creating Angram Reservoir, Scar House Reservoir and Gouthwaite Reservoir, which attract a total of around 150,000 visitors a year. It joins the River Ouse at Nun Monkton. The upper river valley, Nidderdale, was designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in 1994. The Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust has a remit to conserve the ecological condition of the River Nidd from its headwaters to the Humber estuary.

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Nun Monkton Priory

Nun Monkton Priory is a historic house in Nun Monkton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

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St Mary's Church, Nun Monkton

St Mary's Church is the parish church of Nun Monkton, in North Yorkshire, in England.

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Nun Monkton

Nun Monkton is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated 8 miles (13 km) northwest of York at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Nidd. Cottages and houses are grouped around a village green of 20 acres (81,000 m2) with a duck pond and a maypole. The Ouse is navigable for another 19 miles (30 km) and river traffic played an important part in the village's life until the middle of the twentieth century. Until 1974 it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. 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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Beningbrough

Beningbrough is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The population as taken at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Shipton, North Yorkshire. Beningbrough village is 6 miles (10 km) north-west from York city centre. The parish, which includes Beningbrough Hall and Park, is bordered at the south-west by the River Ouse, historically the border between the North Riding and West Riding of Yorkshire. According to the 2001 Census, parish population was 55. Beningbrough is within the ecclesiastical parish of Shipton with Overton. The parish church of Holy Evangelists is at Shipton by Beningbrough. Beningbrough is listed in the 1086 Domesday Book as "Benniburg", meaning a "stronghold associated with a man called 'Beonna'", being an Old English person name. At the time of the Norman Conquest, Beningbrough was in the Bulford Hundred of the North Riding of Yorkshire. The settlement contained five households and five villagers, with one-and-a-half ploughlands, three furlongs of woodland, and six acres of meadow. In 1066, Asfrith was lord, this transferred to Ralph in 1086, with Hugh fitzBaldric becoming tenant-in-chief to king William I. In 1870 Beningbrough was a township in the parish of Newton-on-Ouse, containing 88 people in 15 houses within an area of 1,070 acres (4.3 km2), and in 1877, 74 people in 1,092 acres (4.4 km2). From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Hambleton, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. Beningbrough railway station was the first station out of York on the main line to Newcastle. The station opened on the GNER line in 1841; closed to passengers in 1958, and to freight in 1965. The racehorse Beningbrough, winner of the 1794 St Leger Stakes, was named after the village.

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