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Goathland

Civil parishes in North YorkshireGoathlandUse British English from January 2015Villages in North Yorkshire
Goathland Village geograph.org.uk 102167
Goathland Village geograph.org.uk 102167

Goathland is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, it is in the North York Moors national park due north of Pickering, off the A169 to Whitby. It has a station on the steam-operated North Yorkshire Moors Railway line. In 2015, it had an estimated population of 430. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Scarborough, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

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N 54.4 ° E -0.72 °
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YO22 5AL
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Brereton House
Brereton House

Brereton House is a historic building in Goathland, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was constructed as a cruck-framed longhouse, probably in the 17th century. It was rebuilt in 1740 by John and Elizabeth Cockerill, with the interior greatly altered and a new central entrance provided. In 1851, John and Martha Scarth converted the adjoining byre into additional accommodation, and added a new cowshed at the western end. John Bowes Morrell purchased the house in 1925 as a holiday home, and in 1936, regular guests Jean and Oliver Sheldon converted the cowshed into Brereton Cottage, and by the late 1940s were living there permanently. In 1969, the house and cottage were jointly grade II* listed. The house has a cruck-framed core encased in sandstone, and pantile roofs with coped gables and shaped kneelers. The house, on the right, has two storeys and three bays. It has a moulded eaves course, and contains a doorway with a quoined and chamfered surround and an initialled and dated heavy lintel. There is one fixed-light window, and the other windows are mullioned. The cottage has one storey and an attic, and two bays. The cross-passage doorway has a quoined and chamfered surround and a lintel carved in a shallow arch. The windows are sashes, one with a dated and initialled sill. In the attic are two gabled dormers. Inside, there are pairs of upper crucks, and the house contains an inglenook fireplace. Several internal doors survive from the 1740 rebuilding.

St Mary's Church, Goathland
St Mary's Church, Goathland

St Mary's Church is the parish church of Goathland, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. A hermitage chapel was built in Goathland in the 11th or 12th century, and a second St Mary's chapel was recorded in 1568. It was demolished in the early 19th century, and a new church was completed in 1820, although it was described in the Victoria County History as "a poor structure". Between 1894 and 1896, the current church was built, to a design by Walter Brierley. It is in the Perpendicular Gothic style, with influence from the arts and crafts movement. The church was grade II* listed in 1969, along with its steps and handrail. The church is built of sandstone with a stone slate roof. It consists of a nave, a south porch, a choir, a south organ chamber and a vestry under a central tower, and a chancel. The tower has three stages, angle buttresses, and a southwest stair turret. On the south front is a doorway with a pointed arch and a three-light square-headed window, and on the north front is a three-light round-headed window with a hood mould. The bell openings have one or two lights, on the north and south fronts are clock faces, and at the top is a plain parapet with moulded coping, and a weathervane. The porch is approached by steps with a wrought iron handrail. Inside, there is a bowl font dating from around 1100, brought from a demolished church in Egton. It has an elaborate timber cover, constructed in 1903. There is a 12th-century altar slab, probably from the hermitage chapel, and a grave slab dating from 1695. The pulpit is 17th century, while the choir fittings are by Brierely, and other fittings including the altar and reredos are by Robert Thompson. The stained glass in the east and south windows is from the early 20th century, while the west windows have stained glass inserted to celebrate the Millennium.