Risby is the site of a deserted village and former stately home in the

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of Rowley in the

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, England. It is approximately south-west of

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and west of the

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.Ordnance Survey, 1:25000, 2006 The area has an open partially wooded parkland, once one of the largest deer parks in Yorkshire, that is popular with local walkers. It also includes Risby Park, a farm, the Folly Lake Cafe. There are several fishponds in the ornamental lakes of the former hall, which have been operated as coarse fishing locations since 1990. The site also has an octagonal brick folly that is designated

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Name

Risby was mentioned in the

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as ''Risebi''. The name is from the

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''hrís'' and ''bỹ'', and means "village or farm in the brushwood, or where brushwood was collected".

Risby Hall

Risby Hall was the home of the Ellerker family between the early 14th and the late 18th centuries. It was built in the 1680s and expanded until it was ravaged by fire in the 1770s. It was repaired, but was destroyed by fire again in the 1780s. The hall's foundations are visible in the fields near Risby.

Parklands

The former Risby Hall had extensive parklands which included ornamental lakes, parkland, woodland and a brick folly which were extended in the late 18th century shortly before the hall's destruction. The lakes were created by Easton Mainwaring Ellerker between 1769 and his death in 1771. The folly was built in as part of a landscaping improvements by the Elleker Family. In 1550 a deer park was created through the enclosure of some of the estate, and it was subsequently expanded until the 17th century.

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and his court were entertained at Risby by Sir Ralph Ellerker at the former Ellerker manor house at nearby Cellar Heads, shortly before the deer park's development in 1540.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Risby, East Riding Of Yorkshire Deserted medieval villages in the East Riding of Yorkshire