Mickley, North Yorkshire

Mickley is a village in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The village is on the south bank of the River Ure between Masham and West Tanfield.

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St John's Church, Mickley

St John's Church, Mickley is the parish church of the village of Mickley, North Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in 1841, funded by the family of Colonel Dalton, of Sleningford Park. It is in the Early English style, and was Grade II listed in 1986. The church is built in split cobbles, with stone dressings and a purple slate roof. It consists of a four-bay nave, a south porch, and a single-bay chancel, with a bellcote on the west gable. The porch is gabled and has an arched entrance with a chamfered surround. The inner door is noted for its elaborate hinges. The windows on the sides are lancets alternating with stepped buttresses, at the east end are three lancets. Inside, there are boards displaying the Ten Commandments, 20th-century furnishings, and a timber roof.

Old Sleningford Hall

Old Sleningford Hall is a historic building near North Stainley, a village in North Yorkshire in England. The country house was built in the early 19th century for Thomas Staveley, replacing an earlier building. The gardens were laid out at the same time, and altered in the late 20th century with guidance from Brenda Colvin. The main door of the house was replaced in the 20th century. It was grade II listed, along with the attached garden wall, in 1952. The stables have been converted into an art gallery and studio. The house is built of stone, with a floor band, a sill band, and hipped Westmorland slate roofs. There are two storeys, a central block of five bays, the middle three bays projecting under a triangular pediment with decoration in the tympanum, and flanking lower two-bay wings, the outer bays projecting slightly. The central doorway is flanked by paired Tuscan columns with an entablature and a cornice, above which is a projecting tripartite panel. The windows are sashes, the window above the doorway with an eared architrave. To the left is a garden wall in red brick with stone coping and ball finials. The former stables were also built in the early 19th century and are grade II listed. They are built of stone and brick with stone slate roofs. They consist of two parallel ranges on two sides of a courtyard, the east and west sides enclosed by walls. Each range has two storeys and a taller single-bay tower at the east end. The towers are square, with a circular window in each floor, floor bands, and a pyramidal roof with a lantern and weathervane. The left tower has a dated clock in a former pigeon loft. The west wall contains a doorway, and the east wall, forming the entrance, has a central gateway flanked by square piers with pyramidal caps. Inside the courtyard are stable doors, sash windows and carriage doors.

Hack Fall Wood

Hack Fall Wood, otherwise known as Hackfall, is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, or SSSI, of 44.8687 hectares (0.4487 km2; 0.1732 sq mi), lying north-east of the village of Grewelthorpe, North Yorkshire, England. During the 18th century it was landscaped in the picturesque style by landowner William Aislabie, who created views by engineering streams and pools, planting trees and building follies. J. M. W. Turner and William Sawrey Gilpin painted it, and pictures of it featured on Catherine the Great's 1773 Wedgwood dinner service. Some 19th-century writers called it "one of the most beautiful woods in the country." Following 20th century clear-felling and natural regeneration of trees, the Woodland Trust purchased the property in 1989. The site was designated as an SSSI in the same year. Together with the Hackfall Trust and the Landmark Trust, the Woodland Trust restored footpaths, conserved the remaining follies and managed the wildlife habitat according to its SSSI status. The woodland supports varied wildlife, including many birds, animals and flowering plants, plus more than 200 species of liverworts and mosses, and two rare creatures: the beetle Platycis minutus and the lemon slug, which lives only in ancient woodland. The site is now listed as a Conservation Area, and as Ancient Semi-Natural Woodland (ASNW). The woodland lies within the Nidderdale National Landscape. It is open to the public and has many summer visitors, although the only public facility is a car park.

Spring Hall Farm

Spring Hall Farm is a farm in Grewelthorpe, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The farm is centred on Spring Hall, built in 1708 as a yeoman's house; a stone at the rear is inscribed "LJB 1708". The hall was grade II* listed in 1967. When put up for sale in 2015, it was advertised as containing an entrance hall, living room, dining room, breakfast room, five bedrooms and two bathrooms. The house is built of stone, with quoins, and a stone slate roof with shaped kneelers and stone coping. It has two storeys and eight bays. On the front is a full-height porch containing a doorway with a chamfered surround and a hood mould, above which is a rectangular window with a moulded surround, and a coped gable with shaped kneelers. The other windows are mullioned with two lights. At the rear is a lozenge-shaped initialled and dated stone, and inside there is a large inglenook fireplace. The farm buildings to the northwest are separately listed at grade II. They are built of stone with a stone slate roof. The western range contains a large threshing barn incorporating a pigeoncote. At the northwest corner is a two-storey cart shed range with a granary above, and to the left is a stable range with five doorways. To the southeast of the barn is a wall linking with an outbuilding.