Hardcastle Garth

• Cottage on right built 1666
• Cottage on left built 1745

Crossing Keeper’s Cottage and Ross Bridge

Swarcliffe Hall

• One of the Bronte sisters was a Governess here

Bramham Moor Hunt (1)

• Cpt. C. S. Greenwood leads the Hunt

Bramham Moor Hunt (2)

• George Wainwright Snr. with Bramham Hunt

Swarcliffe Reservoir

Horseman’s Cottage

• Jim Durham was the horseman

Swarcliffe Horsefarm

• The original horse stables

Laundry Maid’s House

• The Laundry Maids were two sisters - “Miss Onions”

The Kitchen Gardens

• Now a new development, at Meg Gate were the kitchen gardens and cottages, one in which the Head Gardner Mr.Henderson lived.
• The Farm Foreman, Mr.Morris, also lived in one of the cottages

Duke of William Pub (at “Meg Yat”)

• In 17th Century, the area in front was originally a Village Green, complete with Maypole - removed during the Commonwealth Period.
• Meg Gate was also where stocks were sited and parish feasts were held.

Felliscliffe / Hampsthwaite Boundary Stone

Estate Manager’s House

• ‘Sun Cottage’ - home of Mr Thompson the Greenwood estate agent /manager
• His wife’s family name was ‘Peacock’ - the famous Middleham horse trainers

Bus Shelter

• Built 1927 by Cpt. Greenwood

Walker’s Cottage

• Home of Miss Towser who kept the bus shelter clean.

Mill Manager and Assistant’s Houses

• Built by C.S. Greenwood in 1902

Birstwith Post Office

• Also the local telephone exchange

Birstwith Church

• Inscription reads:
• “To the Glory of God and in Affectionate Memory of a Dear Father and Brother this Church of James the Apostle was Founded and Built by Frederick Greenwood. A.D. 1857”

Birstwith Allotments

• “Whoso comes here to drink again shall thirst”
• “But One has living water, seek Him first!”
• Erected
• 1897

Weavers’ Cottages

The Moss

Birstwith Vicarage

Birstwith Reading Room

• Built in 1897 by Cpt. C.S. Greenwood

Birtswith School

• Inscription above window reads:
• “Whilst thou art looking the hour is flying”
• “In Loving Memory of Sarah Greenwood who died 30 Sep. 1892”
• . . . and the bell and turret by her three sons.

Birstwith Schoolmaster’s House

• Headmaster Mr C.N. Fretwell taught George when he was a ‘lad’ starting school in 1922. The infants’ teacher was Mrs Clarke whose husband wrote in copperplate

Birstwith Square inscribed Erected A.D. 1859 F.G

Wreaks Mill

Birstwith Mill Lock Gates

Goet

Cobbler’s Cottage

• Home of the village cobbler Mr Stott

Station Hotel

Railway Cottages

Otter’s Rock

Burial Mound?

Fell Buildings

• Built 1861 by
• Frederick Greenwood

Hookstone School Farm

Birstwith Hall

• Original section built by the ‘Day’ family and was called ‘Day Hall’. Second section ‘Birstwith Hall’ built by the Greenwoods and building completed by Sir Frederick Aykroyd in 1922

The Gentry of the Dale End of Part One

The Gentry of the Dale Part Two Clint to Ripley: The Ingilby’s

Clint Hall

• Clint Hall inventory from the 1544 will of Maud Beckwith following the death of Thomas Beckwith in 1517

Mawde Beckwith of Clint, Widow of Thomas (Will 1517) – 1544

Inventory of Clint Hall from 1517

• in the Knight’s Chamber
• in the closette chamber
• in the maiden’s chamber
• in Raiment
• in the chests
• in the kitchen
• Farm Stock
• Debts owing

Stocks at Clint

Ripley Castle Keep

Ripley School

Kneeling Cross

Ripley Church Yard

• Bullet holes resulting from the execution of Royalists following the Battle of Marston Moor in 1644

Church Fountain

Ripley Town Hall

Padside Hall

Leven’s Hall (front and rear)

• Built by John Levens, a Quaker and Captain in Cromwell’s army

Leven’s Hall (rear with barn and grave)

• The grave of Cpt. John Leven’s his wife, his son and daughter remain in the rear garden

The Gentry of the Dale The End