Slingsby, North Yorkshire

Slingsby is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, 6 miles (10 km) west of Malton on the B1257 road. At the 2001 Census, it had a population of 634, increasing to 665 at the 2011 Census.

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All Saints' Church, Slingsby

All Saints' Church is the parish church of Slingsby, North Yorkshire, a village in England. A church was built in Slingsby at an early date. In 1848, it was described as "a neat structure, partly Norman, and partly in the later English style". Between 1867 and 1869, it was demolished and rebuilt, with funding from Edward Howard. The new building was designed by Robert James Johnson, who attempted to move away from typical Victorian restoration practices, and produced a design similar to those popular in the 1880s or 1890s. He reused much material from the old building, including a whole 13th-century arcade. The building was grade II* listed in 1954. The church is built of sandstone, and consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel with a south chapel and a north organ chamber and vestry, and a west tower. The tower has three stages, stepped diagonal buttresses, the north incorporating a stair turret, and string courses. On the west front is a large window with a pointed arch, a clock face on the south of the middle stage and a small trefoil-headed window, two-light bell openings with square heads, and a decorated embattled parapet, with corner crocketed pinnacles, projecting animal sculptures and gargoyles. The tower has a clock, built in 1838, and three bells dating from 1803. Inside, there is a 13th-century effigy of a knight, a 17th-century oak bench, a large brass chandelier brought from St Mary's Church, Sledmere, 19th-century oak pews, and a tower screen dated 1928.

Slingsby Castle

Slingsby Castle is a ruined building in Slingsby, North Yorkshire, a village in England. Ralph Hastings was granted licence to crenellate his house in Slingsby in 1344. In 1474, William Hastings, 1st Baron Hastings was similarly granted a licence to crenellate the property. Only the dry remains of its moat survive: 22 metres wide and 3.4 metres deep on the north and west sides, slightly smaller and partly infilled to the east, and only 1 metre deep to the south, with that side infilled entirely at each end. In 1594, Charles Cavendish bought the ruined castle. When his son, also Charles Cavendish, inherited the building, he demolished it, commissioning John Smythson to design a new country house on the site. It is unlikely that the house was completed before it was slighted during the English Civil War. The ruins survive as a scheduled monument and a grade II listed building, but are also included on the Heritage at Risk Register as being in "very bad" and "declining" condition. The ruins are built of limestone, and form a rectangular plan, 100 feet (30 m) by 66 feet (20 m), with corner projections. The window openings have quoined jambs and triangular pediments. There are the remains of a cornice with a decorated band. Most of the surviving remains are corner turrets and parts of the side walls. The basement was vaulted and contained a kitchen and two cellars. The main floor was divided into two sections and probably comprised a great hall and chamber, along with apartments.

Slingsby railway station

Slingsby railway station is a disused railway station that served the village of Slingsby in North Yorkshire, England. It was built on the orders of the Earl of Carlisle, the local landowner, opened on 19 May 1853 and closed to regular passenger trains on 1 January 1931, but remained open for freight traffic and occasional special passenger trains until 10 August 1964. The station was the only one on the Thirsk and Malton line to be built of stone. It had a single platform that was originally very low, but parts of it were raised to the standard height for NER platforms of 2' 6" after 1865. The goods yard consisted of four sidings, three on the up side and one on the down side of the line. A passing loop on the latter siding that had been taken out of use early in the station's history was reinstated and lengthened in 1943 for unloading ammunition. There were a brick and a timber warehouse, a second brick warehouse was built in 1858 at the request of a corn merchant.

Fryton

Fryton is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England with a population of around 50. This population remained less than 100 at the 2011 Census. Details are included Slingsby (see below). It is located in its own Civil parish 0.5 miles (0.8 km) west of Slingsby and 3.7 miles (6 km) north of the prominent estate of Castle Howard. Because of its small size it is often associated with Slingsby for purposes such as the official Census and is part of the Ecclesiastical Parish of Slingsby All Saints. The name Fryton is the same derivation as Fritton; from Old English meaning enclosure or enclosed space. The village is in a rural location and the parish is predominantly agricultural with potatoes forming an important crop. In 2005 Cherrygarth Farm started to diversify from potatoes and converted dis-used farm buildings into luxury holiday accommodation. These went on to win the Yorkshire Tourist Board's award for Best Newcomer to Tourism in 2006. Despite its small size Fryton features in the history of Yorkshire railways. The Thirsk and Malton Line passed through Fryton until it closed to passenger traffic in 1931. It was recorded that on 31 July 1961, a crossing keeper was killed at Fryton crossing.