Vale of Pickering

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.

Rillington railway station (Rillington Junction until 1890) was a railway station serving the village of Rillington in North Yorkshire, England and on the York to Scarborough Line. It was also the junction station for the line to Whitby and was opened on 5 July 1845 by the York and North Midland Railway. It closed to normal passenger traffic on 22 September 1930, but was used by special trains until the 1960s. The goods yard was closed on 10 August 1964. The station building has been converted to a private house but the remainder of the station has now been demolished. Though the station served Rillington, it was located almost 1 mile (1.6 km) away from the village.

Thornton Dale railway station was situated on the North Eastern Railway's Pickering to Seamer branch line. It served the village of Thornton-le-Dale in North Yorkshire, England. The station opened to passenger traffic on 1 May 1882, and closed on 3 June 1950. The trains first arrived in the village in 1839 but the Pickering-Scarborough branch was not completed here until 1882. After regular service began, some agricultural workers left the area on the train, seeking paid jobs elsewhere. The station remained open for freight traffic to Pickering after the rest of the Forge Valley Line was closed and pulled up. A daily train took limestone (brought by lorry from a quarry north of the village) to Pickering from where it was taken forwards to Skinningrove Ironworks. Unfortunately the quarry company lost the contract to supply the ironworks and this traffic ceased by 1964. The last traffic into the station was two Presflo wagons of bulk cement for repairs to the village hall. Shortly afterwards two Wickham Railmotors from Pickering visited the line to check that all the fences were stock-proof and in due course contractors arrived and removed the track. The station building was cleared and converted into offices for a company building a (short lived) gas pipeline to Pickering. Subsequently, the property was used as a caravan park and the station was eventually converted into three holiday rental cottages.

St Martin's Church is the parish church of Scampston, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. In the Norman period, a chapel of ease to St Andrew's Church, Rillington was built in Scampston. It was a small building with a thatched roof, and in later years, the nave was used as a cottage. In 1845, it was demolished and a new church was built on the foundations, reusing part of the north and west walls. The new church was designed by George Townsend Andrews, in the Gothic revival style. The building was grade II listed in 1966. The church is built of sandstone, with limestone buttresses and dressings, and a slate roof. It consists of a nave, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel and a vestry. On the west gable is a bellcote with paired pointed arches and a central octagonal shaft. The porch is gabled and has a pointed arch with a moulded surround and colonnettes with moulded capitals, and a hood mould. Inside, there is a double sedilia with a trefoil head and an octagonal font with a crocketed cover. The rood screen, stalls, altar, pulpit and prayer desk, were donated in 1906. Several windows have original stained glass borders.

Scampston is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It lies close to the A64 road, approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Malton. The parish includes the hamlets of East Knapton and West Knapton. In 2011 the parish had a population of 313. Until 1974, the village lay in the historic county boundaries of the East Riding of Yorkshire. From 1974 until 2023 it was part of the Ryedale district. The village has a bakery and coffee shop. Scampston Hall is also located in the village. Scampston's Lodge Park is one of the finest holiday lodge parks in the North of England. Set within the beautiful parkland of Scampston Hall. Scampston whose name was variously written in ancient documents, Scamestun, Skameston, Skameston, and Skampston, and which was probably derived from a personal name. On 1 April 1935 the parish of Knapton was abolished and merged with Scampston.Scampston was the birthplace of William Latimer, 4th Baron Latimer, the first member of the British Parliament to be impeached, in 1376.

Rillington Manor is a historic building in Rillington, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The house was built in 1913, for Wilfred Henry Hudleston. It was designed by Sidney Kitson, in the neo-Georgian style, and is accessed by a tree-lined driveway. The house was grade II listed in 1986. The country house in built of red brick with a sill band, a mutule cornice, overhanging sprocketed eaves, and hipped pantile roofs. It has two storeys with attics and five bays, the outer bays on the front projecting and with quoins, and a single-storey range on the left. The centre range has a full-height round-arched arcade, a central doorway with pilaster jambs, and an open pediment with a cartouche and a motto in the tympanum. The windows are sashes under varying arches, and there are dormers in the attics with volutes between the sashes. The garden front has full-height canted bay windows in the outer bays, and a single-storey glazed loggia with Doric columns. Inside, the original plasterwork and wood panelling survives, along with the original doors and staircase, which is in the style of 1700. The stable block is also grade II listed, and is also built of red brick, with rusticated quoins, an impost band, bracketed eaves and a hipped pantile roof. It has a single storey, and a flat arch in the centre flanked by three-bay blind arcades, each bay containing a lunette. Above, are two flat dormers, the one on the left between volutes.

Scampston Hall is a Grade II* listed country house in North Yorkshire, England, with a serpentine park designed by Charles Bridgeman and Capability Brown. It is located on the north side of the A64 Leeds/Scarborough road, 4 miles (6 km) east of Malton, in Scampston village. The name of the village was referred to in various ways in ancient documents as: Scamestun, Skameston, Skameston, and Skampston, and was probably derived from a personal name.The hall features in two storeys of stuccoed orange-red brick with a slate roof and stuccoed brick chimney stacks. The frontage has seven bays, the central three of which are bowed.

Wilton is a small village and civil parish near Pickering in North Yorkshire, England. The village is 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Pickering, 12 miles (19 km) west of Scarborough, and 10 miles (16 km) north-east of Malton.

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.

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.

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.

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.