Thornton Dale railway station

Thornton-le-Dale (also called Thornton Dale) is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, about 3 miles (5 km) east of Pickering on the edge of the North York Moors National Park. The area of the village encompasses 39.2 square kilometres. A thatched building, called Beck Isle or Thatched Cottage and Grade II listed, was built in the 17th century and modified/extended in the 20th. The building has appeared on countless calendars and chocolate boxes over the years. A new thatched roof was installed in 2014. A stream, the Thornton Beck, meanders along the streets and is crossed by several bridges. Much of the village was designated as a Conservation Area by the North York Moors Park Authority in 1977. Thornton-le-Dale is often regarded as one of the prettiest villages in Yorkshire. The village lies on the A170 road from Thirsk to Scarborough within the National Park. The route of the White Rose Way, a long-distance walk from Leeds to Scarborough, also passes through.

Thornton-le-Dale Market Cross is a historic structure in Thornton-le-Dale, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The village was granted a market charter in 1281. At some point in the Mediaeval period, a market cross was erected in the square in the middle of the village. It would originally have been capped by a carved cross, but at some point that was replaced by a ball. The cross was restored in 1820, and was grade II listed in 1953. The cross is constructed of limestone. It consists of a tapering octagonal shaft on a tall square pedestal, on six square stone steps.

Lady Lumley's Almshouses are a historic building in Thornton-le-Dale, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The almshouses were built using funding from Elizabeth Lumley, placed in trust in 1656, but the building was only completed in 1670. The building was restored in the 19th century, then in the 20th century was extended and modernised. It was renovated in 2014 and again in 2025. It now provides 12 one-bedroom bungalows for elderly people with links to the area. The building was grade II listed in 1953. The almshouses are built of limestone, with a moulded eaves cornice, and a stone flag roof. They have one storey, 24 bays and later rear extensions. The doorways are paired and have plain surrounds, and the windows have two lights with cinquefoil heads and stone surrounds. In the centre is an inscribed tablet.

The Old Grammar School is a historic building in Thornton-le-Dale, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The grammar school was endowed by Lady Elizabeth Lumley, and was completed in 1670, alongside the neighbouring Lady Lumley's Almshouses. The building was heavily restored in the 19th century, but the school closed in 1905, being merged into Lady Lumley's School in nearby Pickering. The building has since been used as a village hall. It has been grade II listed since 1953. The building is constructed of sandstone on a plinth, with chamfered quoins, an attic band, a mouded eaves cornice, and a stone flag rood with coped gables and shaped kneelers. It has a single storey and an attic, and a rectangular plan, with extensions at the rear. On the gable end facing the street is a round-headed Perpendicular window with a hood mould, above which is a recessed round-headed bell opening. The right return has three bays. In the centre is a doorway, above which is a two-light mullioned window, and these are flanked by two-light mullioned and transomed windows.

The Hall is a historic building in Thornton-le-Dale, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. A house on the site was first recorded in 1335, but it was in ruins by 1380. The current building may contain some mediaeval material, but it largely dates from about 1680. The main front was redesigned in the 18th century, and a service wing was added late that century. In the early 19th century, the windows were altered and a porch was added, then the current entrance was added in the 20th century. The building was converted into a nursing home late that century, and was grade II* listed in 1953. The building is constructed of sandstone on a plinth, with quoins and slate roofs. The garden front has two storeys, a central range of three bays, and flanking two-bay cross-wings with hipped roofs. In the centre is a Doric porch with a pediment, the windows are sashes in architraves, and at the top is a panelled parapet. The entrance front has a five-bay range, with a projecting seven-bay range to the right, and in the angle is a porch. The windows in the right range have lintels with keystones, and on the range is a bellcote. Inside, there is a 17th-century staircase with contemporary panelling, and a large 19th-century fireplace in the central ground floor room. The former stable block was completed in the early or mid 18th century, and is grade II listed. It is built of sandstone, with chamfered quoins, a moulded eaves course, and a pantile roof with coped gables and shaped kneelers. It has two storeys and is five bays wide. In the centre of the front is a round-arched doorway with quoins, voussoirs and a radial fanlight. On the ground floor are sash windows with flat arches of voussoirs, and the upper floor has various small windows. The rear has a carriage arch, doorways and pivoting windows, and on the gable end facing the street are external steps leading to a doorway.

Beck Isle Cottage is a historic building in Thornton-le-Dale, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The cottage was built in the 17th century, and in the 20th century was heightened, extended and restored. It is the last remaining thatched cottage in the village, and was most recently rethatched in 2015. It has been described as having a "fairytale feel" and as being "potentially the most photographed home in Yorkshire". The house has four bedrooms, three reception rooms and two bathrooms. The building was grade II listed in 1986. The house has a cruck framed core, it is encased in sandstone, and has a stepped eaves course and a thatched roof. There is one storey and an attic, three bays, and a later rear wing. On the left bay is a projecting bracketed thatched porch, and the windows are horizontally sliding sashes, those in the attic in eyebrow dormers. Inside, three pairs of jointed crucks have survived.

All Saints' Church is the parish church of Thornton-le-Dale, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was rebuilt in the early 14th century, from which period the nave and part of the chancel survive. A tower was added late in the century. Between 1865 and 1866, the chancel and vestry were rebuilt, the nave was restored and all the windows were replaced, the work being by Edward Wyndham Tarn. A porch was added in 1900. The building was grade II* listed in 1953. The church is built of sandstone with a stone flagged roof, and consists of a nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel and vestry, and a west tower. The tower has four stages, diagonal buttresses, string courses, and a west window with a pointed arch, three lights and a hood mould. On the second stage are clock faces, the bell openings have two lights, and above is an embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. Inside, there are a 14th-century piscina and sedilia. There are several 17th- and 18th-century memorials, and a canopied tomb with a figure of a woman with a dog at her feet, the woman possibly being Beatrice Hastings, who died around 1320.

Ellerburn cum Farmanby (sometimes Ellerburn) is a former civil parish in what is now the county of North Yorkshire, England. Parts of the parish straddled the road between Pickering and Thornton Dale, with the church of St Hilda, Ellerburn, being in the north of the former parish. The land of the former parish is now contained within the civil parish of Thornton Dale.

The Church of St Hilda, Ellerburn, is an Anglican church in North Yorkshire, England. The church is located in the hamlet of Ellerburn, to the north of Thornton-le-Dale, and is an ancient structure that dates back to Saxon times and has been renovated twice, extensively in 1904. It was briefly famous in 2004 and 2011 for having to be being closed due to bats nesting in the roof.

Ellerburn is a village in the county of North Yorkshire, England, situated near Thornton-le-Dale, about 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Pickering. It is located in the North York Moors National Park. It was part of the Ryedale district between 1974 and 2023. It is now administered by North Yorkshire Council.

Lake Pickering was an extensive proglacial lake of the Devensian glacial. It filled the Vale of Pickering between the North York Moors and the Yorkshire Wolds, when the (largely Scandinavian) ice blocked the drainage, which had flowed north-eastwards past the site of Filey towards the Northern North Sea basin. The lake surface rose until it overflowed southwards and cut an exit between the Howardian Hills and the Yorkshire Wolds at Kirkham Priory between Malton and Stamford Bridge, so creating the River Derwent. In modern times, as an artificial flood relief channel, much of the flow of the River Derwent (which drains a large area of the North York Moors) has been diverted, about 6 miles (10 km) upstream of West Ayton, before it reaches the plain of the Vale of Pickering, east into a new channel called the Sea Cut along a previously dry side valley (probably a glacial overflow channel) and into the existing Scalby Beck's course through Scalby, North Yorkshire to the North Sea. The idea of these lakes was first proposed in 1902,when Professor Percy Kendall of Leeds University published a paper detailing his theories. It has been suggested that lake Pickering was the largest inland lake in Britain at the end of the last Ice Age.

Marishes Road railway station was a railway station on the York and North Midland Railway's branch line to Pickering. It opened on 5 July 1845, and until 1848 was called High Marishes, after the village of that name. It closed on 8 March 1965 (although freight to Pickering continued for a further year). Since closure the main station buildings have remained intact, with the exception of the small wooden signal box which stood immediately north-east of the level crossing - which is now an exhibition as part of Pickering Station Trail on the NYMR. All signals have also disappeared, including the fine NER lattice post up home signal.