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Farnham Mires

Sites of Special Scientific Interest in North YorkshireSites of Special Scientific Interest notified in 1954Use British English from January 2020
Farnham Mires 4 January 2020 (27)
Farnham Mires 4 January 2020 (27)

Farnham Mires is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, or SSSI, to the east of the village of Farnham, North Yorkshire, England. It consists of a spring-fed marshy fen or mire with reeds and sedge, and drier calcareous grassland containing a diverse range of flora. It has a history of poaching and fox hunting, but since the late 19th century, the attention of botanists has been drawn to its large variety of flowering plants. It has received some consideration on this account since 1944, and from 1954 it was designated SSSI status. This site has no facilities, and is not open to the public.

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Farnham Mires
Low Moor Lane,

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N 54.0384 ° E -1.4853 °
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Low Moor Lane

Low Moor Lane
HG5 9JB , Scotton
England, United Kingdom
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Scotton, Harrogate
Scotton, Harrogate

Scotton is a small village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England with a population 524 in the 2001 census, increasing to 624 at the 2011 Census. It is 3 miles (5 km) north of Harrogate, 1.2 miles (2 km) north west of Knaresborough and is just north of the River Nidd where it flows through Nidd Gorge. However; all the watercourses through the village and the parish flow eastwards via the River Tutt and empty into the River Ure despite Scotton being very close to the Nidd.The village was mentioned in the Domesday Book as Scotone and was listed as belonging to Gilbert Tison with only two households. Scotton was the home of Guy Fawkes during his teenage years, Scotton has a Guy Fawkes Night celebration in his honour. The village has an annual summer fete called the Scotton Feast. Not held in 2005 for the first time in several years (the organising committee claimed that it was because of a lack of support from the village), it returned in 2006. One of the old houses near the present day church was the setting of a local folktale that the Gunpowder plot was concocted there; however, Speight determines that there is no evidence that Fawkes visited the village after 1603, which makes this tale extremely unlikely.Apart from the Guy Fawkes Arms public house, the village has little in the way of public amenities. It has a village hall, a cricket team and a boys and girls junior football teams, but no shop, as the post office closed down rather than become a national lottery outlet. There is a Methodist church and Anglican one (the Church of St Thomas the Apostle). St Thomas' church was consecrated in May 1889; previous to this, worship used to be held in a house in the village.Scotton Cricket Club play in the Nidderdale Cricket League with the 1st XI in the 2nd division, and the 2nd XI in the 8th division of the same league.Scotton is sometimes used as a shortcut by people wishing to travel from the A6055 to the B6165 and vice versa.