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Nunnington Hall
Nunnington Hall is a country house situated in the English county of North Yorkshire. The River Rye, Yorkshire, river Rye, which gives its name to the local area, Ryedale, runs past the house, flowing away from the village of Nunnington. A stone bridge over the river separates the grounds of the house from the village. Above, a ridge known as Caulkley's Bank lies between Nunnington and the Vale of York to the south. The Vale of Pickering and the North York Moors lie to the north and east. Nunnington Hall is owned, conserved and managed as a visitor attraction by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, National Trust. The first Nunnington Hall was mentioned in the thirteenth century and the site has had many different owners. They include William Parr, 1st Marquess of Northampton, Dr Robert Huicke, Richard Graham, 1st Viscount Preston, the Rutson family and the Fife family. The present building is a combination of seventeenth- and eighteenth-centu ...
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Manor House
A manor house was historically the main residence of the lord of the manor. The house formed the administrative centre of a manor in the European feudal system; within its great hall were held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets. The term is today loosely applied to various country houses, frequently dating from the Late Middle Ages, which formerly housed the landed gentry. Manor houses were sometimes fortified, albeit not as fortified as castles, and were intended more for show than for defencibility. They existed in most European countries where feudalism was present. Function The lord of the manor may have held several properties within a county or, for example in the case of a feudal baron, spread across a kingdom, which he occupied only on occasional visits. Even so, the business of the manor was directed and controlled by regular manorial courts, which appointed manorial officials such as the bailiff, granted ...
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Domesday Book
Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manuscript was originally known by the Latin name ''Liber de Wintonia'', meaning "Book of Winchester", where it was originally kept in the royal treasury. The '' Anglo-Saxon Chronicle'' states that in 1085 the king sent his agents to survey every shire in England, to list his holdings and dues owed to him. Written in Medieval Latin, it was highly abbreviated and included some vernacular native terms without Latin equivalents. The survey's main purpose was to record the annual value of every piece of landed property to its lord, and the resources in land, manpower, and livestock from which the value derived. The name "Domesday Book" came into use in the 12th century. Richard FitzNeal wrote in the ''Dialogus de Scaccario'' ( 1179) that the book ...
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Newby Wiske
Newby Wiske is a village and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the River Wiske, about five miles north-west of Thirsk. History The village has always belonged to the manor of Kirby Wiske. The manor was split between the ''de Maunby'' and ''de Holtby'' families in the 13th and 14th century. Later records show the manor passing to the ''Saltmarsh'' family. In the 16th century the manor was passed to the ''Willey'' family, whose descendant married into the ''Reveley'' family of Northumberland. Governance The village is within the Thirsk and Malton UK Parliament constituency. It lies within the Thorntons ward of Hambleton District Council and Sowerby electoral division of North Yorkshire County Council. Geography The nearest settlements to the village are South Otterington to the east and Maunby to the south-west. It stands on the east bank of the River Wiske. The 1881 UK Census recorded the population as 216. The 2001 UK ...
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William Rutson (1791-1867)
William Rutson of Newby Wiske, Newby Wiske Hall and Nunnington Hall (17 October 1791 – 11 May 1867) was a merchant and landowner who served as Justice of the Peace, Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire#Deputy lieutenants, Deputy Lieutenant and High Sheriff of Yorkshire. Early life Rutson was born on the 17 October 1791, the son of William Rutson of Allerton Priory, Allerton Lodge and Liverpool and Frances Wrather, daughter of Simon Wrather. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and was a Commoner (academia)#Cambridge, Fellow Commoner during his time there. Career Rutson purchased Nunnington Hall in 1839 for £152,388 in order to be used as the family Hunting and shooting in the United Kingdom#Hunting lodge, hunting lodge. He was also a partner in his father's business, Ewart Myers, which had previously been known as Ewart Rutson after his father. In 1851 Rutson was appointed High Sheriff of Yorkshire, following Octavius Vernon Harcourt of Swinton Park. Rutso ...
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Norton Conyers
Norton Conyers is a civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, north of Ripon. There is no modern village in the parish. Most of the parish is occupied by the grounds of Norton Conyers House, which cover the site of a deserted medieval village. The population of the parish was estimated at 30 in 2015. Norton was mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086, when the soke belonged to the Bishop of Durham. Between 1099 and 1133 Norton was enfeoffed to the Conyers family, and thus acquired its full name. When the Conyers estates were divided in 1199, Norton went to the elder branch of the family, along with Hutton Conyers. By the late 14th century the manor passed to the Norton family, one of whose members built Norton Conyers House. Norton Conyers was a chapelry of the parish of Wath in the North Riding of Yorkshire, although unlike the rest of the parish it formed part of the wapentake of Allertonshire Allertonshire or Allerton was a wapentake and liberty in the North Ridi ...
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Viscount Preston
Viscount Preston is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of Scotland and once in the Peerage of Ireland. The first creation came in the Peerage of Scotland on 21 May 1681. For more information on this creation, see Graham baronets of Esk (1629). The second creation came in the Peerage of Ireland on 3 October 1760. For more information on this creation, see Earl Ludlow. Viscounts Preston (1681) *see Graham baronets of Esk (1629) Viscounts Preston (1760) *see Earl Ludlow Earl Ludlow was a title in the Peerage of Ireland, created on 3 October 1760 for Peter Ludlow, 1st Baron Ludlow. He had already been created Baron Ludlow, of Ardsalla in the County of Meath, on 19 December 1755, and was made Viscount Preston, of ... References * {{DEFAULTSORT:Preston Extinct viscountcies in the Peerage of Scotland Extinct viscountcies in the Peerage of Ireland Noble titles created in 1681 Noble titles created in 1760 Extinct viscountcies in the Jacobite peerage ...
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Netherby Hall
Arthuret is a civil parish in the Carlisle district of Cumbria, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 2,434, increasing to 2,471 at the 2011 Census. The parish includes the town of Longtown and the village of Easton. It is bounded by the River Esk to the west and the River Lyne to the south. Etymology The interpretation of the name Arthuret has presented problems. The name can possibly be associated with the battle of ''Armterid'' recorded in the mid-10th century Welsh ''Annales Cambriae'' as having taken place in c. 573; ''Armterid'' (spelt ''Arfderydd'' in Modern Welsh) is composed of ''arm-'', perhaps meaning "arms, weapon" (''arf'' in Modern Welsh, borrowed ultimately from Latin ''arma'', "arms, armour") – or perhaps an Old Welsh cognate of Old Irish ''airm'' meaning 'place' – and a second element ''terid'' "ardent, fierce; flaming, blazing; fast, nimble, swift" (''terydd'' in Modern Welsh, a loan from Latin ''torridus'', "scorched, parched, burned" ...
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Elizabeth I Of England
Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was List of English monarchs, Queen of England and List of Irish monarchs, Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is sometimes referred to as the "Virgin Queen". Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, his second wife, who was executed when Elizabeth was two years old. Anne's marriage to Henry was annulled, and Elizabeth was for a time declared Royal bastard, illegitimate. Her half-brother Edward VI ruled until his death in 1553, bequeathing the crown to Lady Jane Grey and ignoring the claims of his two half-sisters, the Catholic Church, Catholic Mary I of England, Mary and the younger Elizabeth, in spite of Third Succession Act, statute law to the contrary. Edward's will was set aside and Mary became queen, deposing Lady Jane Grey. During Mary's reign, Elizabeth was imprisoned for nearly a year on suspicion of supporting Protestant reb ...
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Lady Jane Grey
Lady Jane Grey ( 1537 – 12 February 1554), later known as Lady Jane Dudley (after her marriage) and as the "Nine Days' Queen", was an English noblewoman who claimed the throne of England and Ireland from 10 July until 19 July 1553. Jane was the great-granddaughter of Henry VII of England, Henry VII through his younger daughter Mary Tudor, Queen of France, Mary, and was a first cousin once removed of Edward VI. She had an excellent Renaissance humanism, humanist education, and a reputation as one of the most learned young women of her day. In May 1553, she married Lord Guildford Dudley, a younger son of Edward's chief minister John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland. In June 1553, Edward VI wrote his will, nominating Jane and her male heirs as successors to the Crown, in part because his half-sister Mary I of England, Mary was Catholic, while Jane was a committed Protestant and would support the reformed Church of England, whose foundation Edward laid. The will removed his half-si ...
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Catherine Parr
Catherine Parr (sometimes alternatively spelled Katherine, Katheryn, Kateryn, or Katharine; 1512 – 5 September 1548) was Queen of England and Ireland as the last of the six wives of King Henry VIII from their marriage on 12 July 1543 until Henry's death on 28 January 1547. Catherine was the final queen consort of the House of Tudor, and outlived Henry by a year and eight months. With four husbands, she is the most-married English queen. She was the first woman to publish an original work under her own name in English in England. Catherine enjoyed a close relationship with Henry's three children, Mary, Elizabeth, and Edward. She was personally involved in the education of Elizabeth and Edward. She was influential in Henry VIII's passing of the Third Succession Act in 1543 that restored his daughters Mary and Elizabeth to the line of succession to the throne. Catherine was appointed regent from July to September 1544 while Henry was on a military campaign in France and in c ...
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Wykeham, Ryedale
Wykeham is a hamlet in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated just off the A169 road The A169 is an A road in North Yorkshire, England. It runs from the A64 at Malton on the edge of the Yorkshire Wolds through the Vale of Pickering and across the North York Moors to join the A171 just west of Whitby. It is a single carria ... and is north-east of Malton. References Hamlets in North Yorkshire Malton, North Yorkshire {{Ryedale-geo-stub ...
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Holme, North Yorkshire
Holme (or Holme on Swale) is a small village and civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It is located near Pickhill, Sinderby and Ainderby Quernhow, on the west bank of the River Swale. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 60 in 2014. In the 2011 census the population of the parish was included with Ainderby Quernhow and Howe parishes and not counted separately. Hambleton Ales is a small brewery which started life in Holme. It has now moved to Melmerby. Holme was historically a township in the ancient parish of Pickhill with Roxby in the North Riding of Yorkshire. At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 it belonged to the Bishop of Durham as part of his manor of Hutton Conyers and Howgrave. The township formed a detached part of the wapentake of Allertonshire Allertonshire or Allerton was a wapentake and liberty in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England. Northallerton, current name of Allerton, was historically associated ...
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