Lightwater Valley

Lightwater Valley Family Adventure Park is an adventure park in North Stainley, North Yorkshire, England. The park was once home to the longest roller coaster in the world, The Ultimate. Lightwater Valley was founded by Robert Staveley in 1969, and the leasehold is now owned and operated by the Mellors Group, having been purchased by them in 2025. The park attracts approximately 300,000 visitors per year.

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The Ultimate (roller coaster)

The Ultimate was a steel roller coaster located at Lightwater Valley theme park in North Yorkshire, England. Manufactured by British Rail Engineering Limited, the roller coaster opened in 1991 as the longest roller coaster in the world, surpassing The Beast at Kings Island in the United States. It held the record until the opening of Steel Dragon 2000 in Japan. The Ultimate operated through the 2019 season and was shut down following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. After several years of standing idle, the decision was made to remove the ride in 2023. Park management cited safety concerns and the costs to refurbish the ride as the reason, as well as the park's shift in focus to becoming more family-orientated.

Raptor Attack

Raptor Attack was an enclosed steel roller coaster at the Lightwater Valley theme park in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom.

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North Stainley Hall

North Stainley Hall is a historic building in North Stainley, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The Staveley family were appointed as keepers of Ripon Park in 1516, and it appears that they built North Stainley Hall around this date, as a secondary house. The current country house was built in 1715 for Miles Staveley. It was extended in the 19th century. In 1985, it was restored by Robert Staveley, using funds from Lightwater Valley, the work including the reconstruction of the service wing and courtyard. The building has been grade II* listed since 1952. The house is built of brick on a stone plinth, rendered at the rear, with stone dressings, quoins, an eaves cornice, and a hipped stone slate roof. It has three storeys and five bays. The central doorway has rusticated columns, and an initialled and dated pediment. The windows are sashes with eared architraves, those on the lower two floors also with keystones. At the rear is a re-set doorway with an alternate quoined surround and a five-part lintel, and a bay window to the right. The former stables are built of cobble, with gritstone dressings, quoins, and a purple slate roof. There are two storeys and three bays, the middle bay projecting slightly under a gable. This contains a carriage arch with a quoined surround, above which is a sash window and three tiers of pigeon holes in a triangular pattern. The outer bays contain doorways and sash windows, in the left return is a circular window, and on the right return are external steps and a circular window above. They were built in the mid-18th century, and are grade II listed.

North Stainley

North Stainley is a village in the county of North Yorkshire, England 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Ripon. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is the closest settlement to the theme park Lightwater Valley which is 0.62 miles (1 km) to the south.