Farnham, North Yorkshire

Farnham is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated 2 miles (3.2 km) north of Knaresborough.

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Farnham Mires

Farnham Mires is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, or SSSI, to the west of the village of Farnham, North Yorkshire, England. It consists of a spring-fed marshy fen or mire with reeds and sedge, and drier calcareous grassland containing a diverse range of flora. It has a history of poaching and fox hunting, but since the late 19th century, the attention of botanists has been drawn to its large variety of flowering plants. It has received some consideration on this account since 1944, and from 1954 it was designated SSSI status. This site has no facilities, and is not open to the public.

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Scriven

Scriven is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, close to the town of Knaresborough. From 1947 to 1998 Scriven was part of the Claro Registration District, until this was abolished. It is situated north-west of the A6055 road from Bond End and situated north-east of the B6165 Ripley Road. Scriven-with-Tentergate was a parish however in modern days it is now known as Scriven due to a boundary change. The name Scriven originally meant "Hollow-place" with pits and could have referred to the quarrying that occurred nearby. Tentergate however contains the derivative "gate", which is the Scandinavian translation for street, and was the place where cloth was stretched for drying. 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.

Home Farm House

Home Farm House is a historic building in Scriven, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The timber framed building was perhaps built in about 1500, probably as the main farmhouse of the Slingsby Estate of Scriven Hall. It was a hall house with a rear aisle, in a style common in the Vale of York. It was altered around 1600, when the ground floor was rebuilt in stone, and around 1800 the upper floor was partly encased in brick. By the 1850s, it was serving as the Kings Head Inn. It was sold by Scriven Hall in 1965, and restored, the work including a rear extension and the replacement of many of the rear windows. It has been grade II* listed since 1966. The ground floor of the house is underbuilt in gritstone, the upper floor is encased in red-orange brick, and it has a hipped pantile roof. It has two storeys and three bays and outshuts. On the front is a doorway, five-light and four-light mullioned windows on the ground floor, and horizontally sliding sash windows on the upper floor. On the left return is exposed close studding. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace, exposed timber framing and wall paintings dating from about 1600.

Ferrensby

Ferrensby is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 187. It is about 3 miles (4.8 km) north-east of Knaresborough and near the A1(M) motorway. Nearby attractions include a balloon centre and a maze. The origin of the place-name is from Old Norse and probably means "farmstead or village of the man from the Faroe Islands", and appears as Feresbi in the Domesday Book of 1086. 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. The village has a public house called The General Tarleton which was named after Banastre Tarleton, a British general who fought on the loyalist side during the American War of Independence.