East Witton - Izeria

East Witton is a village and civil parish in Wensleydale in North Yorkshire, England. It lies south of Leyburn. The western part of the parish is in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and most of the eastern part is in the Nidderdale National Landscape. In 2011 the parish had a population of 246. The village lies at the mouth of Coverdale. The River Cover and the River Ure are on the northern boundary of the parish. The parish extends 3.5 miles (5.6 km) down Wensleydale east of the village and includes Jervaulx Abbey, 1.8 miles (2.9 km) from the village. To the west in Coverdale, the parish includes Braithwaite Hall, a 17th-century manor house owned by the National Trust, 1.8 miles (2.9 km) from the village. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Richmondshire. It is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. Countdown host Richard Whiteley is buried in the village; he and his partner, Kathryn Apanowicz, lived there.

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St John's Church, East Witton

St John's Church is the parish church of East Witton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. St Ella's Church in the village was first recorded in 1301; St Martin's Church was later built at Low Thorpe. In 1809, the Earl of Ailesbury commissioned a church on a new site. It was designed by H. H. Seward in the Gothick style. It was restored from 1871 to 1872 by George Fowler Jones. The church was grade II listed in 1967. Nikolaus Pevsner described it as remarkably substantial; nothing of the papery character of most early C19 Gothic". The church is built of sandstone with a stone slate roof, and consists of a six-bay nave and a chancel in one unit, north and south aisles, a south porch, a north baptistry and a west tower. The tower has four stages, angle buttresses and an embattled parapet. The nave has three three-light windows and a single late-19th century window, while the east end has a five-light window in the Perpendicular style. Inside, the chancel is lined with tiles, depicting the Lord's Prayer, Creed and Ten Commandments. Victoria of the United Kingdom's coat of arms are depicted in plaster, while the arms of George III of the United Kingdom are over the vestry door.

River Cover

The River Cover is a river in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. The Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust has a remit to conserve the ecological condition of the River Cover. The river forms a limestone dale with ancient woodlands.

Ulshaw Bridge

Ulshaw Bridge is a historic bridge in the hamlet of Ulshaw, in North Yorkshire, in England. The bridge crosses the River Ure, east of Middleham, and so straddles the boundary of East Witton and Thornton Steward civil parishes. It has sometimes been described as lying on the line of a Roman road, although no such road has been located, and the discovery of a Roman fort in Wensley suggests that a more northerly route is likely. A wooden bridge over the Ure near Middleham was recorded by John Leland, although it is not certain whether it was on this site. The first definite reference to the bridge was in 1588, when 200 marks were spent repairing it. The bridge was rebuilt between 1673 and 1674, at a cost of £1,000. The new bridge spanned 65 feet (20 m), and was 12 feet (3.7 m) wide. The parapets were later rebuilt, probably in the late 19th century. Nikolaus Pevsner described the bridge as "an impressive job with three pairs of mighty cutwaters". The bridge, which carries a minor road, is built of a mixture of carved stone and rubble. It consists of four segmental arches, one with a chamfered surround, and with rusticated parapets. There are triangular cutwaters rising to refuges, two with seats, the middle one containing an octagonal sundial base with initials and the date. It has been a scheduled monument since 1925, and was grade II listed in 1967.

Ulshaw

Ulshaw is a hamlet on the River Ure, in the civil parish of Thornton Steward, in North Yorkshire, England, near to Middleham. The hamlet was historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire. It was historically also referred to as Ulshaw Bridge, but in modern usage that name is generally reserved for the medieval stone bridge which spans the River Ure to the immediate south of the hamlet. Ulshaw Bridge is 2.5 miles (4 km) west of Thornton Steward, and 1.25 miles (2 km) east of Middleham.