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unusual facts about Houghton Hall, Yorkshire



1905 English cricket season

Lancashire went unbeaten until July, their fifteenth game, when Surrey overcame them at Aigburth, but Yorkshire were behind on the table with three losses before their match with Yorkshire at Bramall Lane.

A. W. Lawrence

He resigned these posts in 1957 after Ghana became independent and soon after settled at Pateley Bridge in Yorkshire, later moving to Bouthwaite.

Aberford Dykes

The Aberford Dykes are a series of archaeological monuments located around the valley of the Cock Beck, where it runs just north of the village of Aberford on the border between North and West Yorkshire, England.

Bamford

Bamford has four public houses, the Derwent Hotel (closed), the Anglers Rest, the Ladybower Inn and the Yorkshire Bridge Inn, the latter once home to former Blue Peter presenter Peter Purves.

Bartholomew Binns

Before becoming hangman, Binns was employed as foreman platelayer at Dewsbury by the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Company, but after he got the post he no longer worked anywhere.

Bevil Granville

Grenville was the grandson of Sir Bevil Grenville, and the son of Bernard Grenville, M.P., and groom of the bedchamber to Charles II, by his wife Anne, daughter and sole heiress of Cuthbert Morley of Hornby, Yorkshire.

Bootle by-elections, 1990

The Conservatives, who had consistently taken second place in the seat, but were struggling in the national polls, nominated James Clappison, a barrister from Yorkshire.

Charles Duncombe, 3rd Earl of Feversham

He was also a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 13th/18th Royal Hussars and an Honorary Colonel in the Queen's Own Yorkshire Yeomanry and fought in the Second World War, where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order in 1945.

Charles Ward-Jackson

Educated at Eton, Ward-Jackson served in the 3d Yorkshire Regiment and then the Yorkshire Hussars from 1891 to 1907; as an officer during the Boer War he was twice mentioned in dispatches.

Charles Wood, 3rd Earl of Halifax

The Earl and Countess live on the 13,000 acre family estate Garrowby Hall near Garrowby, Yorkshire.

City of Wakefield

The district has a strong heritage of cricket with former Yorkshire and England captain Geoffrey Boycott born in Fitzwilliam and current Yorkshire and England cricketer Tim Bresnan from Pontefract.

Drystone Radio

Drystone Radio, operating online and on 103.5FM (formerly 106.9FM), is a not-for-profit community radio station operating from Cowling, North Yorkshire to listeners across South Craven and the Yorkshire Dales.

Far right in the United Kingdom

They have never achieved representation in the House of Commons, although they have had a number of local councillors in some inner-city areas of east London, and towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire, such as Burnley and Keighley.

Get Lost!

Using characters inspired by Nick and Nora Charles, the detectives in the film The Thin Man (1934) and its sequels, Plater sought to juxtapose the conventions of the hardboiled thriller, as expounded by the likes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett, with the mundanity of life in Yorkshire.

Graham Balcombe

During the Second World War, Balcombe was stationed in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, where he continued to develop his diving equipment, which was put to use at local sites such as Alum Pot, Keld Head and Goyden Pot.

Grove House, Harrogate

Built in 1745-54 as World's End Inn, and the first house in Yorkshire to have gas lighting and heating, today it is a convalescence and old aged persons rest home, owned and operated by the Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes (RAOB).

H. V. Burlingham

Wolverhampton Corporation took one identical body on a Guy Arab IV whilst another but with half-cab and exposed radiator went to Samuel Morgan of Armthorpe Yorkshire.

Houghton Hall

Danish artist Jeppe Hein created a "Water Flame" sculpture/fountain for this garden.

I travelled among unknown men

Similarly, no insight can be gained from determining the exact geographical location of the 'springs of Dove'; in his youth, Wordsworth had visited springs of that name in Derbyshire, Patterdale and Yorkshire.

I've Never Met a Nice South African

He has met the Loch Ness Monster, had a close encounter ('of the 22nd kind, That's when an alien spaceship, Disappears up your behind!'), seen unicorns in Burma, met a working Yorkshire miner and had sunstroke in the Arctic, but despite all these exotic experiences, he has never met a nice South African.

Illingworth St Mary's Cricket Club

Over the years many famous players have played for and at Illingworth; Tom Emmett (England), Alex Lees (Yorkshire), Gary Fellows (Yorkshire), Stuart Law (Essex, Queensland, Lancashire & Australia) and Robin Uthappa (India).

Jim Herriot

Herriot is probably best-known today for giving his name to the writer James Herriot, a Yorkshire vet whose real name was Alf Wight.

Joshua Bayes

Being dedicated from his birth to the nonconformist ministry, he was placed under the tuition of Richard Frankland, of Attercliffe in Yorkshire, on 15 Nov. 1686.

Kathryn Leng

In April 1999, Leng played for Yorkshire Bank first team in the Bradford Cricket League, the first woman to play in that league, and became the first woman to play inter UCCE cricket in 2001.

Leo Chamberlain

He retired as Master in 2007 and was succeeded by Felix Stephens and became parish priest of St John the Evangelist Catholic Church, Easingwold, Yorkshire.

Lirr

Leeds Inner Ring Road, a motorway and A-road circling Leeds, West Yorkshire, England

Martin De La See

Peter Hildyard, of Winestead, Yorkshire (son of Robert Hildyard and Elizabeth Hastings. Elizabeth was the granddaughter of Thomas de Morley, 5th Baron Morley and great-granddaughter of Michael de la Pole, 2nd Earl of Suffolk, through her mother Ann).

Michael Lund

Lund was born in March 1965 in Horbury, Yorkshire, and is a graduate of mathematics and applied physics at the then Manchester Polytechnic and holds a masters in pure mathematics from the University of Liverpool.

Nigel Caple

After graduation he continued to be tutored by Miles at various locations including Ronda in Spain, Morley College in London and The Motor House in North Yorkshire.

No Face Records

So far the label has concentrated on bands in the Yorkshire region and has committed itself to promoting and supporting quality metal music.

North Country Beagle

Chiefly bred in Yorkshire, it was common in the north of England, but below the River Trent the similar Southern Hound was more abundant.

Nottingham Conference Centre

The Centre’s three Victorian character rooms are situated in the Arkwright building, originally built between 1877 and 1881 by Lockwood and Mawson, the prominent Yorkshire architectural practice founded by Henry Francis Lockwood.

Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt!

Locations used for outdoor filming of the series were in Skelmanthorpe, West Yorkshire and Elvington, North Yorkshire, while indoor filming was done at Yorkshire Television Studios, "Kirkstall Road, Leeds" themselves.

RAF Oxenhope Moor

RAF Oxenhope Moor was a British Second World War radio station, located on Cock Hill Moor near the village of Oxenhope in Yorkshire.

Red Riding

(Yorkshire, Britain's largest county, is broken into three administrative areas known as the RidingsNorth, East, and West.

Robert Sidgwick

Born in Embsay, near Skipton, Yorkshire, England, Sidgwick was a right-handed batsman, who scored 72 runs at 4.80, with a best score of 17 against Kent.

Rokeby Venus

Despite this, nudes by foreign artists were keenly collected by the court circle, and this painting was hung in the houses of Spanish courtiers until 1813, when it was brought to England to hang in Rokeby Park, Yorkshire.

Ronnie Hilton

Born Adrian Hill in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, Hilton left school at 14 and worked in an aircraft factory at the beginning of the Second World War, before being called up into the Highland Light Infantry.

Sheffield Park

Sheffield Park Academy, a secondary school in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England

Sheriff's March

At an inquisition at Tynemouth in 1278, it was duly declared that the King of Scotland, the Archbishop of York, the Prior of Tynemouth, the Bishop of Durham and Gilbert de Umfraville, Earl of Angus should arrange to meet with the justices prior to their entry into Newcastle, provided that they came through the county of Yorkshire first.

Silverwood Colliery

Silverwood Colliery was a colliery situated between Thrybergh and Ravenfield in Yorkshire, England.

Sir Edward Wortley Montagu

Sir Edward had bought and rebuilt Wortley Hall, near Barnsley in South Yorkshire, which also passed to his daughter.

Sir John Bright, 1st Baronet

Sir John Bright, 1st Baronet (14 October 1619 – 13 October 1688), was an English parliamentarian, of Carbrook and Badsworth, Yorkshire.

Tim Easterby

Easterby took over the Habton Grange stables in North Yorkshire from his father, Peter Easterby, in February 1996.

Unitrans 6773–6774

Originally, they were part of a fleet of 55 identical buses built in 1968 and 1969 that operated in Yorkshire.

Walter of Guisborough

was a canon regular of the Augustinian Gisborough Priory, Yorkshire and English chronicler of the fourteenth century.

Walter Sugg

His younger brother Frank played first-class cricket for Yorkshire, Derbyshire, Lancashire and England.

William Jackson of Masham

William Jackson (born 9 January 1815 in Masham, Yorkshire, England; died 15 April 1866 in Bradford, England) was an English organist and composer.

Yorkshire Imperial Band

The band was formed in the 1930s as the Yorkshire Copper Works Band based at the Yorkshire Copper Works in Stourton, Leeds, and was renamed when Yorkshire Imperial Metals was created in 1958, owned by Yorkshire Copper Works and ICI Metals Division.

Yorkshire Radio

Alongside Leeds United commentaries, Yorkshire Radio also carried coverage of Super League, Leeds Carnegie RUFC and Yorkshire County Cricket Club.


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