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Wood Hall Hotel And Spa
Wood Hall Hotel and Spa, Trip Lane, is an AA four-star, 44-room country house hotel with an AA two-rosette restaurant, about one mile from the English village of Linton, West Yorkshire. Facilities Also known as Wood Hall Country House Hotel, the house is set in 100 acres (40.5 ha) of woodland, at the end of a long private drive, 200 yards from the River Wharfe. It opened as a hotel in 1988 and was extended in 1992. It has facilities for helicopter landing, and also a gym, an indoor swimming pool and a steam room. History The house was originally a country retreat of the Catholic Vavasour family, which had owned the estate since the early Middle Ages. An earlier house by the river was destroyed in the English Civil War. The present one was erected about 1750, but soon sold to the Scott family of Leeds, who inhabited it until 1935. It then became a boy's prep school, whose alumni included the Yorkshire and England cricketer Len Hutton. The 190-acre estate was sold in 1966 to t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wood Hall Wetherby
Wood is a porous and fibrous structural tissue found in the stems and roots of trees and other woody plants. It is an organic materiala natural composite of cellulose fibers that are strong in tension and embedded in a matrix of lignin that resists compression. Wood is sometimes defined as only the secondary xylem in the stems of trees, or it is defined more broadly to include the same type of tissue elsewhere such as in the roots of trees or shrubs. In a living tree it performs a support function, enabling woody plants to grow large or to stand up by themselves. It also conveys water and nutrients between the leaves, other growing tissues, and the roots. Wood may also refer to other plant materials with comparable properties, and to material engineered from wood, or woodchips or fiber. Wood has been used for thousands of years for fuel, as a construction material, for making tools and weapons, furniture and paper. More recently it emerged as a feedstock for the production ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
