New York, North Yorkshire

New York is a settlement in Nidderdale in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is on the River Nidd, near Summerbridge, and about 2.5 miles (4 km) south-east of Pateley Bridge. Until 1974 it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

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Holy Trinity Church, Dacre Banks

Holy Trinity Church is an Anglican church in Dacre Banks, a village in North Yorkshire in England. The church was built in 1837, initially as a chapel of ease to Ripon Minster. Its design is said to be by a local woman. It was consecrated by the Bishop of Ripon in January 1838, and was given its own parish in 1839. The interior was altered in 1901, from which time date most of the fixtures and fittings, although the font may be original. The church was grade II listed in 1987. The church is built of stone with a purple slate roof, and is in Early English style. It consists of a five-bay nave with a south porch, a single-bay chancel, and a west tower. The tower has two stages, diagonal buttresses, a clock face on the south, lancet bell openings, and an embattled parapet. The porch has a coped gable, and a datestone above the lintel. The windows are lancets, and at the east end is a three-light window.

Summerbridge, North Yorkshire

Summerbridge is a village in Nidderdale in North Yorkshire, England. It is on the River Nidd, adjacent to Dacre Banks on the opposite bank of the river, and lies about 2.5 miles (4 km) south east of Pateley Bridge. The village is part of the historic West Riding of Yorkshire. The village has one public house, the Flying Dutchman, owned and operated by Samuel Smith Old Brewery, tea rooms and several other shops (including a general store and a large hardware store). There is also a garage and several more businesses on a small industrial estate at New York, sometimes considered part of Summerbridge. There is also a large Methodist church, a primary school and a retained fire station. Summerbridge is served by two-hourly buses of Harrogate Bus Company (route 24) between Harrogate and Pateley Bridge. The village is the largest settlement in the civil parish of Hartwith cum Winsley. It is the nearest village to Brimham Rocks, 2 miles (3 km) away.

Dacre railway station

Dacre railway station served the villages of Dacre and Summerbridge, North Yorkshire, England from 1862 to 1951 on the Nidd Valley Railway.

Smelthouses

Smelthouses is a hamlet in Nidderdale in North Yorkshire, England. It lies about 2.3 miles (4 km) south-east of Pateley Bridge, on either side of Fell Beck, a small tributary of the River Nidd. Fell Beck here forms the boundary between the civil parishes of Hartwith cum Winsley and High and Low Bishopside, so that the settlement is divided between the two parishes. In the Middle Ages Fell Beck was the boundary between the lands of the Archbishop of York (which became High and Low Bishopside) and the manor of Brimham held by Fountains Abbey (which became Hartwith cum Winsley). Fountains Abbey had a grange at Wyse Ing at what is now Smelthouses. By the middle of the 15th century, the abbey had a bellows-blown lead smelting mill there, which gave its name to the hamlet, but there is no record of its use in the 16th century or at the dissolution of the abbey. In 1795 a flax-spinning mill was started on the west side of the beck at Smelthouses. The mill flourished in the 19th century, but was burned down in 1890. In the early 20th century there was a rope and twine business at Little Mill in Smelthouses. A Wesleyan chapel was opened at Smelthouses in 1841 to serve the industrial hamlet. It was replaced by a chapel at Wilsill in 1897. The road from Pateley Bridge to Knaresborough historically passed through Smelthouses. Under an Act of Parliament of 1759 a turnpike trust was formed to build a new toll road on the route. In 1761 the trust built a new bridge over Fell Beck at Smelthouses, and rebuilt it in 1802. The bridge is now a Grade II listed building. However the route was abandoned as a turnpike in 1828, when the trust diverted the route to a new line from Wilsill to Burnt Yates via Summerbridge, now followed by the B6165.