Aysgarth - Izeria

Aysgarth is a village and civil parish in Wensleydale, in North Yorkshire, England. The village is in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, about 16 miles (26 km) south-west of Richmond and 22.6 miles (36.4 km) west of the county town of Northallerton.

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Bear Park, North Yorkshire

Bear Park is a manor house and estate in Carperby, a village in Wensleydale in England. A house existed on the site in the Mediaeval period, when it was owned by Marrick Priory. It was sold in 1544, and by 1570 was owned by Ambrose Dudley, 3rd Earl of Warwick. At the time, the estate had a stone hall and various outbuildings, surrounded on three sides by walls, and the other by the River Ure. The current building dates from the 17th century, although it may contain elements of the earlier house. It has been much altered, particularly in the 19th century. It was Grade II* listed in 1952. The house is built of stone and has a stone slate roof with coped gables. It has two storeys and an E-shaped plan. The south front has five bays, and contains a doorway with a fanlight, a Tudor arched head and a hood mould. The windows are mullioned and double-chamfered with hood moulds. At the ends, the gable of each cross-wing contains an oculus with a moulded surround and keystones. In the centre of the rear is a single-storey gabled porch containing a doorway with a quoined surround, a moulded arris and a Tudor arched head. To the right of the porch is a stone slab carved with the Arma Christi, said to have come from Coverham Abbey. Inside the house, the dining room has 17th-century panelling with a frieze and moulded beams and joists in the ceiling. The sitting room has a small fireplace which dates from the 17th century or perhaps earlier, and the old kitchen has a large 17th-century fireplace. Beside the kitchen fireplace is a stone spiral staircase, with a cavity below which may have been a priesthole. Next to the house is a garden, surrounded by a 19th-century stone wall, which has been extended to accommodate a tennis court. There is also a mid-19th century grotto, constructed of artificial stone.

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Yore Mill

Yore Mill is a historic building in Aysgarth, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The mill lies on the River Ure, by Yore Bridge. In the late Mediaeval period, the site housed a fulling mill, which was replaced in the late 18th century by a cotton mill. This burned down in 1853, and the current mill was completed in 1854, originally a combined corn and woollen mill, but by the end of the century, it only ground corn. In 1937, the waterwheel was replaced by turbines, and a roller plant installed. In 1969, the mill instead became a carriage museum, which closed in 2003. By 2019, the building was in disrepair, unsafe to enter due to the poor condition of the roof. In 2022, permission was granted to convert it into apartments and holiday lets. The building has been Grade II listed since 1981. The building is constructed of rubble, with a stone slate roof. It is four storeys high and eight bays wide, with a T-shaped plan. Most of the windows are 14-pane sashes, and on the east elevation, the central bay of each floor has a door. The gable has a bell turret. Inside, the structure is supported by cast iron pillars with H-shaped sections, which support timber beams. To the north-west of the mill, the former mill offices survive from the Georgian building. Also built of stone, they are two storeys high with a basement, below which is an arch through which the mill race flows. The offices are connected to the mill by a two-storey timber framed extension, and are Grade II listed. They are in commercial use.

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St Andrew's Church, Aysgarth

St Andrew's Church, Aysgarth, is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Aysgarth, North Yorkshire. It is located on the south side of the River Ure.

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Aysgarth Falls

Aysgarth Falls are a triple flight of waterfalls, surrounded by woodland and farmland, carved out by the River Ure over an almost one-mile (two-kilometre) stretch on its descent to mid-Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales of England, near the village Aysgarth. The falls are quite spectacular after heavy rainfall as thousands of gallons of water cascade over the series of broad limestone steps, which are divided into three stages: Upper Force, Middle Force and Lower Force. The falls are an SSSI.

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