Newton Kyme

Newton Kyme Hall is a historic building in the village of Newton Kyme, north-west of Tadcaster in North Yorkshire, in England. The hall's origins lie in the 17th century, but it was rebuilt for Robert Fairfax in about 1720. At this time, the gardens were landscaped, to incorporate the remains of Kyme Castle. In the 19th century, wings were added at right and left, and a kitchen block at the rear left, and a colonnade was added to the front. A coach house and stables were built north of the hall, and a groom's house to their south-west. The hall remained in private hands, other than during World War II, when it served as Air Defence Headquarters. It was later divided into three properties. The house was Grade II* listed in 1952, while the coach house and stables, groom's house, and castle remains, are all Grade II listed.The hall is built of Magnesian Limestone and sandstone, with a Welsh slate roof. The central wing is two storeys high with an attic, and 7 bays wide, while the left and right wings are single storey. At the front is a Doric order portico with a wrought iron trellis. There are sash windows throughout, some with shutters, and three sets of 20th century double doors give access to a balcony. Inside, there is an 18th-century staircase in a hall with panelling and Ionic order pilasters, with the first floor hall being similar. The right-hand ground floor room has an Ionic portico and a moulded cornice.The garden has an avenue of lime trees leading from the hall to the Tadcaster road, originally planted in the early 18th century, but cut down in the 1990s and replaced by a wider avenue of young trees. The garden also includes a large rockery, and a ha-ha, in addition to the castle ruins.

St Andrew's Church is the parish church of Newton Kyme, a village west of Tadcaster, in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was originally built in the 12th century, with the nave, western part of the chancel, and lower part of the tower surviving from this date. The Fairfax Chapel was added in about 1290, and the nave arcade is of similar date. The belfry and the majority of the windows date from the 15th century. In 1883, the floor and the seating were replaced, the roof was opened up, some 13th century windows were reopened, and a screen was added to create a vestry. In 1938, the bells were recast and rehung. The church was grade I listed in 1985. The church is built of Magnesian Limestone, with a roof of stone slates. It has a nave with a north aisle and a south porch, and a chancel with the Fairfax Chapel on the north side. There is a two-stage west tower with gargoyles and battlements. The porch has a pointed arch, inscribed with various figures: a cow, a boar's head, and a coat of arms, plus reliefs of the Virgin and Child and a St Andrew's Cross. The chancel has a priest's door, and a piscina and sedilia dating from about 1220.Other features inside the church include a 12th century font, with 19th century cover and base; a sculpture of a head dating from 1613; a monument to Robert Fairfax from 1725, and a wooden one to Katherine Stapilton, from 1695. An oak sanctuary chair and eagle lectern were stolen from the church in recent years.

Newton Kyme railway station was a railway station on the former Harrogate–Church Fenton line, serving the village of Newton Kyme near Tadcaster in North Yorkshire. It handled freight and passenger traffic.

Wighill is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is near the River Wharfe and 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Wetherby, West Yorkshire. The village has one public house, the White Swan Inn, which reopened in 2009 after a two-year closure. Uhtred the Bold was murdered here in 1016.

Tadcaster Grammar School founded in 1557, is a coeducational secondary school and sixth form located near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England, educating children aged 11–18 years old, and has an on-site sixth form. The school is located in the hamlet of Toulston just outside the brewery town of Tadcaster. The school's catchment includes Tadcaster and its surrounding villages, while traditionally taking pupils from the York area, including villages such as Appleton Roebuck, Copmanthorpe, Bishopthorpe and Bilbrough.

The Second World War Experience Centre, based in Otley, West Yorkshire, England, is a registered charity and museum/archive which was set up in 1998 to preserve personal memories of the Second World War before they are lost forever. The archive is international in scope and holds letters, diaries, photographs and papers donated by individuals - the collection is unique as it concentrates only on the Second World War and personal experience. A network of volunteers across the UK also tapes record veterans' memories for the Centre, and its collection now numbers in excess of 9000 lives. The Centre is used by researchers, students, schoolchildren, authors and members of the public studying for degrees, books or simply their family history. The Centre's mission is "To collect and encourage access to the surviving testimony of men and women who lived through the years of the Second World War, and to ensure that different audiences share and learn from the personal recollections preserved in the collection".

Tadcaster railway station was on the Harrogate to Church Fenton Line in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England.

ROF Thorp Arch was one of sixteen Second World War, UK government-owned Royal Ordnance Factory, which produced munitions by "filling" them. It was a medium-sized filling factory (Filling Factory No. 9).It was located on the banks of the River Wharfe, north-east of the two villages of Boston Spa and Thorp Arch; and four miles south-east of the town of Wetherby, West Yorkshire in England.

Thorp Arch Trading Estate is a trading estate, with both industrial and retail space, 3 miles (5 km) south-east of Wetherby in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. The estate occupies the major part of the site of a former Royal Ordnance Factory (ROF), ROF Thorp Arch, in the parishes of Thorp Arch and Walton. There is evidence of its former use around the site which was similar in layout to the former ROF Aycliffe in Darlington, County Durham.

The Leeds and York Railway was a proposed railway line, promoted in the mid 1840s, intended to connect York and Leeds. The line lost a significant promoter, the Manchester and Leeds Railway in 1845/6 as a result of a non-competition arrangement between that company and the York and North Midland Railway. The York and North Midland Railway successfully promoted a rival line in the same session of parliament, and obtained an act for its construction in 1846. The only part of either scheme that was ever constructed was the Tadcaster Viaduct, built by the Y&NMR on a short spur from the Y&NMR's existing Church Fenton to Harrogate branch. This was completed by 1848 before the Y&NMR decided to abandon construction of the line.

The Wetherby News is a local weekly tabloid newspaper published on a Thursday and based in Wetherby, West Yorkshire, England. The newspaper was founded in 1859 with its offices on the High Street next to the Angel Inn. The paper's news editor is Janet Harrison, with Jean MacQuarrie as group editor of the parent Ackrill Media Group. Amy Craven is sports editor. The paper is part of the Johnston Press stable. The paper's news and sport patch includes Wetherby, Tadcaster, Boston Spa and Sherburn in Elmet, covering local events from rural North Yorkshire to parts of urban north Leeds such as Slaid Hill, Alwoodley and Whinmoor. The newspaper has its offices on Westgate in Wetherby. The Wetherby News carries a large property supplement, covering Wetherby as well as the surrounding districts. It also has an in-depth weekend supplement, a full weekly guide to what's on in West and North Yorkshire, entertainment news, live music and cinema guides and full classified listings. The Wetherby News has a partnership with Tempo FM with whom it provides a weekly news review every Friday morning. In 2012 the Wetherby News became a tabloid and moved its publications from a Friday to a Thursday.

Tadcaster Rural District was a rural district in the West Riding of Yorkshire from 1894 to 1974. It was named after Tadcaster. It was created by the Local Government Act 1894 from the Tadcaster rural sanitary district. It was enlarged in 1937 by the abolition of Bishopthorpe Rural District. It was abolished in 1974 under the Local Government Act 1972. The parishes of Aberford, Austhorpe, Barwick in Elmet and Scholes, Great and Little Preston, Ledsham, Ledston, Lotherton cum Aberford, Micklefield, Parlington, Sturton Grange and Swillington became part of the Metropolitan District of Leeds in West Yorkshire, with the rest going to the district of Selby in North Yorkshire.