Mouseman Visitor Centre

The Mouseman Visitor Centre is a tourist attraction in Kilburn, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The centre displays pieces carved by the furniture designer Robert Thompson, known as "Mouseman" for including carvings of mice on his work. The core of the centre is Thompson's former workshop and an adjoining blacksmith's shop. These opened to the public in 1994 by Thompson's descendent Ian Thompson-Cartwright. It was redesigned between 2002 and 2004, to include a display of furniture designed by Thompson, gallery from which the current furniture workshop can be viewed, and exhibition relating to life in the village during Thompson's youth. The complex also included a cafe and a house which served as the furniture company's design department and showroom. The cafe and exhibition closed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The house was built in the 16th century and is grade II listed. It has a timber framed core, later partly clad in stone and mottled pink brick, with a tall plinth, and a stone slate roof, hipped on the right. There are two storeys and four bays, and aisles at the rear and on the right. On the front are doorways, in the left bay is a canted bay window, and the other windows are a mix, including a cross window, a square window, horizontally-sliding sashes, and casements.

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St Mary's Church, Kilburn

St Mary's Church is an Anglican church in Kilburn, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The church was originally a chapel of ease to Coxwold, built in the 12th century. It was altered in the 13th century, and the tower was added in 1667. The building was restored in 1818, and by Ewan Christian in 1869. It was given its own parish in 1868. The building was grade II* listed in 1966. The church is built of stone with Welsh slate roofs, and consists of a nave, a north aisle, a south porch, a north vestry, a chancel with a north chapel, and a west tower. The tower has a chamfered plinth, quoins, diagonal buttresses, a west window, two-light bell openings, and an embattled parapet with crocketed corner finials. The porch has a sundial in the gable, and the inner doorway has a round arch with three orders of chevrons on columns with decorated cushion capitals. Inside, there are two 13th-century grave slabs, pews which are probably 17th century, and a bell with the date 1684.

Kilburn, North Yorkshire

Kilburn is a village in the civil parish of Kilburn High and Low, in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It lies on the edge of the North York Moors National Park, and 6.2 miles (10 km) north of Easingwold.

Kilburn White Horse

The Kilburn White Horse is a hill figure cut into the hillside in the North York Moors National Park near Kilburn in North Yorkshire, England. It is 318 feet (97 m) long by 220 ft (67 m) high and covers about 1.6 acres (6,475 m2) and said to be the most northerly "chalk" hill figure in England. Located on the southern flank of Sutton Bank, near Roulston Scar at the edge of the Hambleton table-land, it faces south-south-west and is visible from some distance, particularly from the East Coast Main Line railway south of Thirsk, and from the A19. On a clear day, the horse is visible from north Leeds, 28 miles (45 km) away on the higher ground to the west of the Vale of York. Sutton Bank is formed of jurassic, limey sandstone and the horse was created by removing topsoil to expose that underlying rock, and covering it with white chalk chips. It was created in November 1857, and some accounts state that it was done by schoolmaster John Hodgson and his pupils, together with local volunteers. However, a tablet erected at the car park below it reads, The Kilburn 'White Horse' -- This figure was cut in 1857 on the initiative of Thomas Taylor, a native of Kilburn. In 1925 a restoration fund was subscribed by the readers of the Yorkshire Evening Post and the residue of £100 was invested to provide for the triennial grooming of the figure. Morris Marples in his 1949 book also gives Thomas Taylor the credit for being the prime mover: a native of Kilburn, he was a buyer for a London provision merchant. He seems to have attended celebrations at the Uffington White Horse in 1857, and he was inspired to give his home village a similar example. Thirty-three men were involved in cutting it, and 6 tons (6.1 metric tonnes) of lime were used to whiten the exposed rock. Nowadays a car park is provided below the white horse and there is a footpath ascending past it and crossing immediately above it. The Cleveland Way long distance footpath reaches the horse from above. The image itself is now formed of off-white limestone chips, but the steep gradient of the hillside, especially at the horse's breast and forelegs, have led to slumping and retention boards have been fixed to restrain this. The cutting of the current Litlington White Horse in East Sussex during 1924, was inspired by the story of the Kilburn horse. The footpath offers a scenic view. The car park is located on a steeply graded minor road between Kilburn village and the Sutton Bank National Park Centre on the A170 road, and the best view of the white horse itself is from the Bagby road; benches are provided there to allow leisurely observation. During World War II the horse was covered over to prevent it from becoming a conspicuous navigation landmark for enemy bombers. The horse featured in the launch video for Channel 3 North East, the rebranded version of regional ITV station Tyne Tees Television, in September 1996. The horse was repainted in 2014. The Kilburn White Horse Association, run by volunteers, handed the site to Forestry England in 2018. In 2022, the horse was resprayed at a cost of £20,000.

Wildon Grange

Wildon Grange is a civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England.