Pockley - Izeria

Pockley is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is about 1 mile north-east of Helmsley turning north from the A170 road. Its short, winding lane passes six thatched cottages in a quarter mile before turning back toward the A170 and its junction at Beadlam and Nawton. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Ryedale. It is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. The Grade II-listed St John the Baptist's Church was built in 1870 and designed by Sir Gilbert Scott or his son. The name Pockley probably derives from the Old English Pocalēah, meaning 'Poca's wood or clearing'.

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St John the Baptist's Church, Pockley

St John the Baptist's Church is the parish church of Pockley, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. Until the late 19th century, residents of Pockley worshipped at All Saints' Church, Helmsley. In 1870, a church was built, to a design credited to either George Gilbert Scott or George Gilbert Scott Jr. The building was grade II listed in 1985. The church is built of limestone with sandstone dressings and a Westmorland slate roof. It consists of a nave, a south porch, and a chancel with a north vestry. At the west end is a central buttress carrying a bellcote with four openings. Inside, there is a 13th-century font, which was moved from All Saints in Helmsley. The chancel screen and other furnishings were provided by Temple Moore in 1898-99 and rood beam figures by Lang of Oberammergau. The church's unusual heating system was based on a Roman hypocaust. Warm air came through underfloor ducts from a coke-fired stove beneath the church. Originally the fuel for the stove was carried through a 25-foot brick-lined tunnel on a miniature railway which is still in existence but rarely used. The hot air heating system was restored in 2012 and for the first time in over 60 years the church is now warm for services.

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Beadlam Roman villa

Beadlam Roman villa is a Roman villa on the east bank of the River Riccal in North Yorkshire, England. It is in the district of Ryedale between Helmsley and the village of Beadlam. This Scheduled Ancient Monument is the remains of a large Romano-British farm built in the third and fourth centuries AD. The site was first explored in 1928 when Romano-British tile and pot and tesserae were found. Further excavation in 1966 revealed a mosaic pavement in a building in the northern part of the site. The field in which it was found was purchased by English Heritage. More detailed excavations took place in 1969, 1972 and 1978 when the remains of buildings forming three sides of a courtyard were uncovered. The walls of one building can be viewed in situ; the other building is visible as an earthwork.

Beadlam

Beadlam is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 250, reducing to 229 at the Census 2011. It is situated about 10 miles (16 km) west of Pickering, near the southern boundary of the North York Moors National Park. Beadlam is halfway between Helmsley and Kirkbymoorside on the A170. The name Beadlam derives from the plural form of the Old English bōðl meaning 'a dwelling'. The village is unusual in that it is directly joined onto another village, Nawton, and is commonly given the name Nawton Beadlam. The village has a secondary school Ryedale School and Nawton, the village it is attached to, has a primary school, Nawton Primary School. The village has a fish and chip shop, which is popular with the students returning from Ryedale School, and a bus stop operated by the East Yorkshire bus service which provides connections to most of North Yorkshire including major cities and coastal towns in the area including York, Scarborough and Bridlington. Beadlam was historically a township in the ancient parish of Kirkdale. It became a separate civil parish in 1866, but remains part of the ecclesiastical parish of Kirkdale. St Gregory's Minster, the parish church in Kirkdale, has been in use since before the Norman Conquest. Its daughter church, St Hilda's Church, Beadlam, was built in 1882–3. It serves as the church of a local Ecumenical Partnership between Methodists and Anglicans. Between 1974 and 2023 the village was part of the Ryedale district. It is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. Two miles (3.2 km) west of the village is Beadlam Roman villa, which was excavated in 1969 revealing two 4th-century rectangular buildings, the northernmost of which was fitted with a hypocaust overlain by a tessellated floor.

St Hilda's Church, Beadlam

St Hilda's Church is the parish church of Beadlam, a village in North Yorkshire in England. The church was constructed in 1882, to a design by Charles Hodgson Fowler. The church cost £1,119 13/6 to build. The bell tower was weatherboarded in 1961, and in 1997, the church was grade II listed. The church is in the 13th century style, and is built of stone, with tiled roofs. It consists of a nave and chancel under a single roof, a south porch, north-east vestry, and a west tower containing a single bell. The belltower is built of wood, and has a pyramidal spire. The windows are all lancets, and the east window has stained glass designed by Kempe & Tower, which was added around 1905. Inside, there is an octagonal font in stone, and a monument to Lilian Duncombe, carved in 1905 by Lady Feodora Gleichen.