Places to see in ( Helmsley - UK )
Places to see in ( Helmsley - UK )
Helmsley is a market town and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town is located at the point where Rye Dale leaves the moorland and joins the flat Vale of Pickering. The Cleveland Way National Trail starts at Helmsley, and follows a horseshoe loop around the North York Moors National Park and Yorkshire coast for 110 miles (180 km) to Filey. The remains of Helmsley Castle tower over the town.
It is situated on the River Rye on the A170 road, 14 miles (23 km) east of Thirsk, 13 miles (21 km) west of Pickering and some 24 miles (39 km) due north of York. The southern boundary of the North York Moors National Park passes through Helmsley along the A170 road so that the western part of the town is within the National Park.
The settlement grew around its position at a road junction and river crossing point. Helmsley is a compact town, retaining its medieval layout around its market place with more recent development to the north and south of its main thoroughfare, Bondgate. It is a historic town of considerable architectural character whose centre has been designated as a conservation area. The town is associated with the Earls of Feversham, whose ancestral home Duncombe Park was built overlooking Helmsley Castle. A statue of William Duncombe, 2nd Baron Feversham stands in the town's square. The town is a popular tourist centre and has won gold medals in the Large Village category of Yorkshire in Bloom for three years. The town square is a meeting place for motorcyclists as it is at the end of the B1257 road from Stokesley, which is a favourite with bikers.
Helmsley is situated on the southern boundary of the North York Moors National Park approximately 200 feet (61 m) above sea level. The town's geology is sandstone. To the west and the north of the settlement the moorland areas are predominantly limestone. Helmsley lies in a hollow in undulating open countryside, flanked by heather moor to the north and the rolling farmland of the Howardian Hills to the south. The flat lowland of the Vale of Pickering stretches eastwards from the town towards Malton. The River Rye runs by the town to the south where it is joined at Rye Bridge by the Borough Beck flowing southwards through the town from the moors. Meadows south of the Rye form an important buffer and create an attractive setting for the town from the southern approach.
Helmsley Arts Centre has a 140-seat auditorium and 40-seat studio/exhibition space.It provides film screenings, live music, theatre performances, comedy clubs, art exhibitions and workshops/classes. The 1812 Theatre Company is the resident amateur theatre company at the centre. It mounts at least three productions per year in the main theatre and two in the studio. The 1812 Youth Theatre meets there on a regular basis, putting on two shows a year.
The five-acre (2 ha) Helmsley Walled Garden, originally built in 1756, is being restored as a working kitchen garden. A walled garden for the castle stood along the banks of the river to the south. Soon after the family moved out of the castle into Duncombe Park this walled garden was built. The garden incorporates glass houses designed in 1850 as a vine house. The ongoing programme of restoration uses appropriate plants where possible.
Helmsley has an open-air swimming pool and a recreation ground providing facilities for tennis, bowls, cricket and football. The Cleveland Way, a horseshoe-shaped route around the North York Moors National Park starts in Helmsley. It follows the moor's western escarpment to meet the coast at Saltburn-by-the-Sea, and then follows the North Yorkshire and Cleveland Heritage Coast to end at Filey. Other places of interest include the International Centre for Birds of Prey, Rievaulx Abbey and Helmsley Arts Centre.
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Places to see in ( Yorkshire - UK ) Rievaulx Abbey
Places to see in ( Yorkshire - UK ) Rievaulx Abbey
Rievaulx Abbey ree-VOH is a former Cistercian abbey in Rievaulx, near Helmsley in the North York Moors National Park, North Yorkshire, England. Headed by the Abbot of Rievaulx, it was one of the wealthiest abbeys in England until it was dissolved by Henry VIII of England in 1538. Its ruins are a tourist attraction, owned and maintained by English Heritage.
Rievaulx Abbey was founded in 1132 by twelve monks from Clairvaux Abbey as a mission for the colonisation of the north of England and Scotland. The first abbot, St William I, started construction in the 1130s. During the 1150s, Abbot Aelred expanded the buildings. It was the first Cistercian abbey in the north of England. With time it became one of the great Cistercian abbeys of Yorkshire, second only to Fountains Abbey in fame.
The abbey lies in a wooded dale by the River Rye, sheltered by hills. The monks diverted part of the river several yards to the west in order to have enough flat land to build on. They altered the river's course twice more during the 12th century. The old course is visible in the abbey's grounds. This is an illustration of the technical ingenuity of the monks, who over time built up a profitable business mining lead and iron, rearing sheep and selling wool to buyers from all over Europe. Rievaulx Abbey became one of the greatest and wealthiest in England, with 140 monks and many more lay brothers. It received grants of land totalling 6,000 acres (24 km²) and established daughter houses in England and Scotland.
By the end of the 13th century the abbey had incurred debts on its building projects and lost revenue due to an epidemic of sheep scab (psoroptic mange). The ill fortune was compounded by raiders from Scotland in the early 14th century. The great reduction in population caused by the Black Death in the mid-14th century made it difficult to recruit new lay brothers for manual labour. As a result, the abbey was forced to lease much of its land. By 1381 there were only fourteen choir monks, three lay brothers and the abbot left at Rievaulx, and some buildings were reduced in size.
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Swainby Country Parks | Part of Maguires Country Parks
A video of Swainby Country Park, part of Maguires Country Parks!
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North Yorkshire Country Walk - Great Ayton to Captain Cook's Monument (Part 1)
This video is a guided walk in North Yorkshire. The walk (part 1) is from Great Ayton to Captain Cook's Monument via Little Ayton. This is a hard walk with steep inclines and declines, but we see some wonderful views and some wildlife. Please watch part 2 for the rest of the walk to Roseberry Topping and back to Great Ayton.
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Windsor Castle Wikipedia travel guide video. Created by Stupeflix.com
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castle. A thousand year old fortress transformed to a royal palace.
This well known silhouette of a seemingly medieval castle was not
created, however, until the 1820s by Jeffry Wyatville. Aerial view of
the castle. An early 18th-century view of Windsor Castle by Kip and
Knyff. Drawing by Wyatville showing his Gothic transformation to the
buildings of the upper ward of Windsor Castle. Wyatville's drawing
showing the intended changes to the Prince of Wales Tower at Windsor
castle. Plan of Windsor Castle in 1743 by Batty Langley. St George's
Hall Windsor from W.H. Pyne's Royal Residences (1819). This shows the
baroque style of the work carried out at Windsor for Charles II by
architect Hugh May, painter Antonio Verrio, carver Grinling Gibbons and
others. St George's Hall was redecorated in the early 19th century, but
several smaller interiors from this period survive. St George's Hall in
1848 by Joseph Nash, showing the alterations made for George IV by Sir
Jeffry Wyatville. Queen Victoria's retreat into the privacy of the
castle after the death of Prince Albert acquired her the
soubriquet The Widow of Windsor. Queen Mary had the castle modernised
to 20th century standards, and added to its art collection. During the
latter half of the 20th century Windsor castle became one of Britain's
major tourist attractions. The Round Tower of Windsor Castle behind
part of its garden. Windsor Castle's Upper Ward—The Quadrangle—not open
to tourists.
EDEN CAMP , P.O.W North Yorkshire.
A genuine prisoner of war camp for our enemies in Britain. The old huts have some with sound effects and smells! It's well worth going to.
New Years Day in the Yorkshire Dales
Freezing fog creates dramatic effects in one of the dales highest villages - Greenhow