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Hensall (Yorkshire du Nord)
Hensall est un village et une paroisse civile du Yorkshire du Nord, en Angleterre.
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Hensall, North Yorkshire
Hensall is a village and civil parish in the English county of North Yorkshire.
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Hensall railway station
Hensall railway station serves the village of Hensall in North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the Pontefract Line and is 22 miles (35 km) east of Leeds. The line is used regularly by the freight companies GB Railfreight, Freightliner and DB Cargo UK that transport coal and limestone to Drax and remove the gypsum created by the flue-gas treatment equipment. The branch line to the power plant diverges just to the east of the station and was formerly supervised from the nearby signal box, but is now remotely controlled from Ferrybridge signalling centre (see below).
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St Paul's Church, Hensall
St Paul's Church is the parish church of Hensall, North Yorkshire, a village in England.
Until the mid-19th century, Hensall formed part of the parish of St Laurence's Church, Snaith. In 1854, St Paul's Church was completed, having been commissioned by William Dawnay, 7th Viscount Downe and designed by William Butterfield. Butterfield also designed the nearby Red House and Hensal Primary School. The church was given its own parish in 1855. Paul Thompson describes the church as "a compromise between Cowick and Pollington", both churches Butterfield completed in the same year for the same benefactor. Nikolaus Pevsner describes it as "very plain". The church was grade II* listed in 1967.
The church is built of pinkish-red brick with stone dressings and a grey slate roof. It consists of a nave, narrow north and south aisles, a southwest porch, a chancel with a south chapel and a north vestry, and a northwest tower. The tower has a doorway with a pointed arch, a gabled stair turret, slit windows, two-light bell openings, a cogged eaves band, and a pyramidal roof. Inside, most original features survive, including the pews, chapel screen, piscina, Mintons floor tiles, organ, octagonal pulpit and font, and mosaic reredos, which was restored in 1970.
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The Red House, Hensall
The Red House is a historic building in Hensall, North Yorkshire, a village in England.
The house was built in 1854 by William Butterfield, as part of a group with St Paul's Church, Hensall and Hensall Primary School. It was constructed as the vicarage for the church, but later became a private house. Peter Ferriday sees the house as presaging arts and crafts architecture, saying that it "could easily be mistaken for a house by Philip Webb, and challenges the Red House [in Bexleyheath] as the first example of a conscious Victorian return to an honest unpretentious style of house-building". It is a grade II* listed building.
The house is built of pinkish-brown brick with a grey slate roof. There are two storeys, three bays, and a single-story rear range. The doorway has a pointed fanlight under a pointed arch. The windows are sashes, some tripartite, those in the ground floor under header arches and pointed relieving arches, and there is a half-hipped roof dormer. Inside, there are numerous original features, including the bookshelves and fireplace in the library; fireplace and panelling in the dining room; and the staircase. There are also many original doors and some window shutters.
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Eggborough power station
Eggborough power station was a coal-fired power station in North Yorkshire, England, which was capable of co-firing biomass. It was situated on the River Aire, between the towns of Knottingley and Snaith, deriving its name from the nearby village of Eggborough. The station had a generating capacity of 1,960 megawatts, enough electricity to power 2 million homes, equivalent to the area of Leeds and Sheffield.
The station, one of the Hinton Heavies, began generating power in 1967, making use of nearby coal reserves. It was built for, and initially operated by the Central Electricity Generating Board. The station closed in September 2018 and demolition works began in 2020, with the eight cooling towers being the first to come down in 2021. The Bunker Bay was demolished on 6 March 2022, the DA Bay on 1 June 2022 and the chimney and boiler house on 24 July 2022. There are plans to replace it with a 2,500 megawatt gas power plant.