Historic Buildings in Yorkshire

Attached to the Roman city walls of York is a ruined Anglo-Saxon tower, possibly built in the early 7th century by King Edwin of Deira. This is one of just two secular Anglo-Saxon buildings in Britain. It was buried around AD 900 and only fully excavated in 1971.
Museum Gardens, Museum Street, York, Yorkshire, England

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Heritage Highlight: An almost unique secular Anglo-Saxon building

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Barden Bridge is a 17th-century three-arched bridge across the River Wharfe just below the medieval manor house of Barden Tower. The bridge has links to William Craven, a farmer's son who rose to be Lord Mayor of London.
Bolton Abbey, Yorkshire Dales, Yorkshire, England

Attraction Type: Historic Property - Bridge
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Bargate is a medieval town gate built around 1312 to allow access from Richmond's market place to the old bridge across the River Swale. It is the only one of four medieval gates to survive and stands at the meeting of two cobbled lanes.
Cornforth Hill, Richmond, Yorkshire, England, DL10 4QP

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Heritage Highlight: The last surviving medieval town gate

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Bedale Hall is an opulent Palladian house built around 1730 by Henry Peirse. The Hall is now home to the Bedale library, museum, and tourist information centre. Look for the cantilevered entrance stair and the exquisite 18th-century ballroom. On the wall is the 1251 market charter given by Henry III.
North End, Bedale, Yorkshire Dales, Yorkshire, England, DL8 1AA

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Heritage Highlight: Superb Georgian plasterwork

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On the bank of Bedale Beck stands a late-Georgian red-brick building used for storing leeches until they were needed by local doctors for bloodletting. This is the last surviving leech house in England, built for an apothecary on the Bedale Hall estate.
Renaissance Park, Bedale, Yorkshire Dales, Yorkshire, England

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Heritage Highlight: The last surviving leech house in England

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Beggar's Bridge is a single-arch packhorse bridge across the River Esk in Glaisdale, built in 1619 by Tom Ferris, a wealthy merchant, in memory of the time he was parted from his lover by floods and was unable to cross the river.
Carr Lane, Glaisdale, North York Moors, Yorkshire, England, YO21 2QL

Attraction Type: Historic Property - Bridge
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Heritage Highlight: Incorporates 14th-century stonework

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A short stroll from the delights of Beverley Minster church stand the remains of a 600-year-old Dominican Friary mentioned by Geoffrey Chaucer in the Canterbury Tales. Beverley Friary was built with the help of Henry III, who in 1263 granted the monks the wood from fifteen oak trees in the Forest of Gailtres.
Friar's Lane, Beverley, Yorkshire, England, HU17 0DF

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Heritage Highlight: Medieval wall paintings

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Braithwaite Hall is a lovely 17th-century farmhouse set in the beautiful countryside of the Coverdale Valley. The interior features period panelling, fireplaces, and an oak staircase with solid plank treads. The Hall was built in 1667 of rubble dressed with ashlar beneath a slate roof. It is two stories high with an attic above and laid out on an E-plan with a pair of projecting wings.
East Witton, Leyburn, Yorkshire, England, DL8 4SY

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Heritage Highlight: 17th century oak staircase

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The original manor house at Burton Agnes, later replaced by the grand Elizabethan Hall beside it. At first glance, the Manor appears to be built of red brick, like the Hall, but looks can be deceiving; the red brick is only a shell that hides a much earlier building.
Shady Lane, Burton Agnes, Yorkshire, England

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Heritage Highlight: 12th-century vaulted undercroft

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A granite obelisk marks the site of a house built in 1755 by Captain James Cook's father as a retirement home. The house now stands in Melbourne Australia. The memorial marking the house location is made of granite quarried at Point Hicks, the first point on mainland Australia sighted by Cook.
Bridge Street, Great Ayton, North York Moors, Yorkshire, England

Attraction Type: Historic Property - Monument
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Heritage Highlight: Site of Captain Cook's parent's house

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