Old Byland and Scawton

Old Byland and Scawton est une paroisse civile du Yorkshire du Nord, en Angleterre.

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Old Byland and Scawton

Old Byland and Scawton is a civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The parish includes the villages of Old Byland and Scawton. At the 2001 census, the civil parish was accounted for with the parish of Cold Kirby, and had a population of 232, which had dropped to 205 at the 2011 census. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population of the Old Byland and Scawton Parish to be 120. The parish touches Boltby, Byland with Wass, Cold Kirby, Hawnby, Kilburn High and Low, Oldstead, Rievaulx and Sproxton. The civil parish was part of the Ryedale district between 1974 and 2023, but now forms part of the unitary authority of North Yorkshire. The Cleveland Way long distance footpath passes through the civil parish. There are 16 listed buildings in Old Byland and Scawton.

St Mary's Church, Scawton

St Mary's Church is the parish church of Scawton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in the middle of the 12th century. Most of the windows have been altered, particularly in the 15th century. The building was restored in 1892 by C. Hodgson Fowler, who added a porch. The church was grade I listed in 1955. The church is built of limestone with a Welsh slate roof, and consists of a nave, a south porch, and a chancel. On the west gable end is a wooden bellcote. The porch contains a round-arched doorway with two moulded orders on colonnettes with scalloped capitals, and above it is a beaded hood mould. Inside, there is a niche to the left of the altar with a trough and two columns, probably a lavatorium which may have been brought from elsewhere. To the right of the altar is an aumbry, piscina and sedile. There is a round font which may be Norman but has a later base and a 17th-century octagonal wooden cover.

Scawton

Scawton is a village and former civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The hamlet lies just east of Sutton Bank, north of the A170 road, and 5 miles (8 km) west of Helmsley, in the Hambleton Hills. The wider parish was the setting for the Battle of Old Byland, on Scawton Moor to the south. The road through the village used to link the two abbeys at Byland and Rievaulx, with the church, and possibly the village pub, being instigated by the monks for the use of travellers. In 1961 the parish had a population of 84.

Cold Kirby

Cold Kirby is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is in the Hambleton Hills, near Rievaulx Abbey and Sutton Bank, 5 miles (8 km) west of Helmsley. The name Kirby derives from the Old Norse Kaeribȳ meaning 'Kaeri's village'. The Cleveland Way long distance footpath passes through both civil parish and village on its way from Helmsley and Rievaulx to Sutton Bank and, eventually, Filey. The upper section of Sutton Bank is also in the civil parish. The whole civil parish lies within the North York Moors National Park. From 1974 to 2023, the civil parish was part of the district of Ryedale. It is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. The population of the civil parish at the time of the 2011 census (including Angram Grange) was 205.

Nude in the Nettles

The Nude in the Nettles is the name given by the media to the body of an unknown female found concealed under what was reportedly a nettle bush (actually a willowherb bush) near Sutton Bank in North Yorkshire, England in 1981. The police were notified of the body’s location by an anonymous caller who claimed that he could not give his name for reasons of “national security”. Neither the identity of the woman nor that of the caller has ever been established despite an extensive investigation.