Newby Wiske

Newby Wiske est un village et une paroisse civile du Yorkshire du Nord, en Angleterre.

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Newby Wiske is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the River Wiske, about five miles north-west of Thirsk.

Newby Wiske Hall is a historic building in Newby Wiske, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The country house was built in 1684 for William Reveley. The hall was altered in the 18th century, and passed through various owners, including William Mitford. In 1829, William Rutson purchased the hall, then extended it and made extensive alterations. In 1954, the Home Office purchased the house for £13,000, and converted into a police training centre. In 1977, it became the headquarters of North Yorkshire Police. The building was grade II listed in 1985. In 2017, the building was sold and converted into a children's outdoor activity centre. The house is rendered, with stone dressings and has Welsh slate roofs. The main front has two storeys and attics, eleven bays, the outer bays projecting, with a lower two-storey four-bay wing to the right, and later rear additions. The main block has a plinth, a floor band, a frieze, a cornice and blocking course, and a hipped roof. In the centre is a two-storey porch with a round-arched opening, pilasters, an architrave and a keystone, above which is a small balcony. The windows in the lower two floors of the middle nine bays are sashes with architraves, those in the middle floor also with friezes and cornices, and in the top floor they are casements with architraves. The outer bays have rusticated ground floors, and quoins. The windows in the ground floor are tripartite with Doric pilasters, a frieze and a cornice, and in the middle floor are Venetian windows with Ionic pilasters, friezes, cornices and keystones. Inside, there is a grand late-19th century staircase, and several chimney pieces of similar date.

Newby Wiske railway station

Newby Wiske railway station served the village of Newby Wiske, North Yorkshire, England from 1852 to 1963 on the Leeds-Northallerton Railway.

South Otterington

South Otterington is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the A167 road 5 miles (8 km) south of Northallerton and on the east bank of the River Wiske.

Otterington Hall

Otterington Hall is a Grade II listed mansion in South Otterington, near Northallerton, North Yorkshire, England. Otterington Hall lies in South Otterington, three miles (5 km) south of Northallerton, on the A167. One of the earlier occupants, from before 1831 until his death in 1837, was Captain John George Boss (1781–1837) R.N. He had a distinguished naval career, being involved in the capture of several French vessels and the protection of British trading interests in the Caribbean during the Napoleonic Wars. He was a Member of Parliament for the Northallerton constituency (1832–1835) and he gained the rank of captain in November 1833. He married twice: Charlotte Robinson (née Pennyman) in 1814, who died in 1832 aged 56, and Elizabeth Wylie in 1834. Otterington Hall was the birthplace of British anti-fascist, linguist, and photographer, Alec Wainman. It was home to the Furness family for many years, and they were responsible for planting much of its topiary gardens from the 1920s onwards, "one of the best topiary gardens in England and certainly the best in Yorkshire". It has been home to Andy Preston, the Mayor of Middlesbrough and a former hedge fund manager, and his wife since at least 2007. In 2015, Preston was criticised for using his parents' Middlesbrough address on his nomination papers, rather than that of his actual home, but he denied breaking election rules.