Hillam Hall

Hillam is a village and civil parish in the Selby District of North Yorkshire, England. The village is closely linked to Monk Fryston, although both villages maintain separate parish councils. According to the 2011 UK census the population of Hillam parish was 720 and the number of households was 277.The village was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.

Monk Fryston Methodist Church is a historic building in Monk Fryston, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was constructed in 1845, for the Wesleyan Methodist Church, with a hexagonal plan. It originally had a capacity of 236 worshippers, and 160 pupils in the schoolroom underneath. As of 1851, the church had an average of 265 worshippers across three services each Sunday. It was extended in 1875, with wings added on both sides, the space including a new schoolroom. In 1986, the building was grade II listed. Early in the 21st century, it was converted into two houses. The church is built of magnesian limestone on a plinth, with quoins, a modillion eaves band and a Welsh slate roof. There is a single tall storey, and a two-bay pedimented centre with single-bay flanking wings. In the centre is a pedimented porch with a round-arched doorway and a radial fanlight. It is flanked by narrow round-arched sash windows with keystones, and above is an oculus with keystones, and a ball finial on the apex. The wings contain round-headed sash windows.

Monk Fryston is a small village and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England. The village was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.

Monk Fryston Hall is a Grade II* listed country house standing in 66 acres of parkland in Monk Fryston, Selby, North Yorkshire, England.The hall was originally built for Selby Abbey in the 13th century in Magnesian Limestone with a stone slate roof. It was heavily restored c.1740, altered again in 1897 and an additional range added in the 20th century. Monk Fryston was bought in 1680 by the Hemsworth family and the family occupied the hall for several generations. In 1946 it was sold to an S.W. Tinsdale who converted the hall to an hotel, selling it on in 1954 to the 10th Duke of Rutland. After changing hands twice since then it is now being run as a hotel known as Monk Fryston Hall Hotel.

Prebendal House is a historic building in Monk Fryston, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was constructed in about 1425, and it has been extensively altered over the centuries. It was grade II* listed in 1967. It is built of roughcast magnesian limestone with a roof of stone slate, and pantile at the rear, with stone kneelers and copings. It has two storeys and three bays. The central doorway is pointed and has a double-chamfered surround. The windows are mullioned and transomed, and above is a raking dormer with a horizontally-sliding sash window. Inside, there is some 19th-century panelling, and a crown post roof.

St Wilfrid's Church is the parish church of Monk Fryston, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in the Saxon period, probably in the early 11th century, from which era the lower part of the tower survives. The rest of the church was rebuilt in the 13th century, while the upper part of the tower dates from the 14th century, as does the clerestory. The choir was restored by Thomas Edmunds in 1685. The whole church was restored from 1889 to 1891 by Robert J. Johnson at a cost of £7,000. The work included the addition of a vestry, and the replacement of most of the stained glass. The building was grade I listed in 1967. In the mediaeval period, the church was dedicated to Mary, mother of Jesus, but it is now dedicated to Saint Wilfrid. In 1970, a church hall was added, to a design by George Pace and Ronald Sims. The church roof was replaced in 2013. The church is built of magnesian limestone, with roofs of stone slate and lead, and consists of a nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a south porch, a chancel with a south vestry, and a west tower. The tower has three stages, diagonal buttresses, a two-light west window, a floor band, two corbel tables, two-light round-headed bell openings, and an embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. The north aisle is also embattled, and at the east end is a three-light straight-headed Perpendicular window. Inside, there is a piscina, two 17th-century wall tablets, a 13th-century square stone font with a wooden cover dating from 1669, a communion rail from 1664, and several stained glass windows designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Monk Fryston railway station was a railway station serving the village of Monk Fryston in North Yorkshire, England. Previously, Milford Junction and Old Junction (Gascoigne Wood) served as an interchange between the Leeds and Selby and the York and North Midland Lines, however when they closed in the early 1900s, Monk Fryston was opened to cover for this loss of interchange. Though the station had four tracks through it, it only ever had two platforms. The station closed to passengers in 1959, and then completely in 1964.

Milford Junction railway station was a railway station near to Milford Junction on the York and North Midland Railway south of the south-east connecting chord of 1840 between that railway and the Leeds and Selby Railway. The station closed on 1 October 1904, but the site remained in use for locomotive swapping. The station buildings were demolished in 1960.

Milford Sidings are a set of railway sidings in South Milford, North Yorkshire, England. The railways through the site were initially opened in 1834 and 1840, when transfer and marshalling yards opened too, which handled mostly coal. However, the current sidings were developed in the 1980s to function as layover (staging in railway parlance) sidings for coal trains to and from the Aire Valley power stations. The sidings have access to several railway lines radiating in almost all directions. With the drawdown of coal-fired power stations in line with UK government directives, the sidings have been used less due to the loss of coal trains. However, they are still used to stage other freight trains.

Gascoigne Wood Junction railway station was a railway station near Sherburn-in-Elmet in North Yorkshire, England. It was originally opened as a junction station, enabling transfers for passengers between trains. It was later a private halt station for the staff who worked at the Gascoigne Wood marshalling yard. It opened in 1839, and was closed, renamed and re-opened several times before closing completely in 1959. The station was 14 miles (23 km) from Leeds New Station, and 6 miles (9.7 km) from Selby.

Burton Salmon is a village and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England, close to the border with West Yorkshire, and approximately 3 miles (5 km) north from Knottingley, on the A162 road. According to the 2001 Census the parish had a population of 419, reducing slightly to 416 at the 2011 Census.It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.The village primary school is Burton Salmon Community Primary School. There is also a public house, The Plough Inn, dating from the 17th century, and a Methodist chapel.

Byram Park is a former country estate in Byram, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The estate was acquired by the Ramsden family in 1618. Byram Hall, at the heart of the park, had been built in the 16th century, and was altered by its new owners. In 1762, John Carr of York redesigned the building, giving it facades in the Neoclassical style. It had a three-storey main front, and two-storey wings, with the west wing having 15 bays. In 1780, Robert Adam made internal alterations to the building. The family sold the estate in the 1920s, following which part of the building was demolished, with most of the remainder following in 1947. The east service wing survived until it burnt down in the 1980s. The west service wing survives, as do several associated buildings, and most features of the park. The surviving service wing is built of rendered brick and sandstone, with dressings in stone and red gauged brick, a cornice and a low parapet. There are three storeys and nine bays. In the ground floor, alternate bays contain doorways and sash windows, and the upper floors contain sash windows with flat brick arches. It is in poor condition and is not inhabited, but is Grade II listed. Nearby is the coach house and stable block, also designed by John Carr, and disused due to mining subsidence. The structure is built of brick and sandstone, and has hipped roofs of Welsh slate and asbestos. The building has two storeys and an L-shaped plan, the stables forming a north range with three bays, and the coach house an east wing with seven bays. The middle three bays of the coach house project, and in the centre is a round carriage arch with a moulded archivolt, the flanking bays with round-arched windows in moulded archivolts. The outer bays contain round carriage arches with impost bands. In the upper floor are sash windows with flat arches of gauged brick. The stables contain blind arcading and round-arched stable openings. The park and gardens were in existence by the early 18th century. Capability Brown was commissioned in 1782 to produce a plan for their redevelopment, but he died the following year and it is not known whether he completed the plan or whether it was carried out. Over the next few years, a lake was constructed, and many trees were removed from the deer park. In the mid 19th century, more woodland was planted, the lake was redesigned, and pleasure grounds were created to its north, including formal gardens and greenhouses. Following the sale of the estate, the parkland was converted to farmland, and much of the woodland was removed, but the lake and kitchen garden survive. A bridge over the lake, built in 1825, is Grade II listed. The piers are in stone and brick. The bridge has three segmental arches in cast iron and wood, with pointed arcading to the spandrels, quatrefoil decoration above the piers, and a latticework parapet. Within the pleasure grounds, there is a Grade II listed orangery. It was designed by John Carr in the late-18th century, and has been converted into a private house. It is in rendered sandstone and brick, on a plinth, with a frieze, a dentilled cornice, an openwork parapet with faceted finials, and a Welsh slate roof. There is a single storey and five bays. It has an arcade with moulded round arches, a glazed entrance and multi-paned windows. The walls of the formal gardens and kitchen garden survive, the areas linked by tunnels, designed to allow gardeners to move between them. In addition, two lodges survive. One, originally half of a matching pair, is Grade II listed and has been attributed to Carr. It is built of limewashed stone on a plinth, with a stepped low parapet and a Welsh slate roof. There is a square plan, a single storey and a single bay, the centre of each side slightly projecting. The central doorway has a plain architrave, a frieze and a pediment. On the sides are windows, each in an architrave, with an apron, a frieze and a pediment. The other, the North Lodge, was built in the mid 19th century, and was restored and extended in the 1960s.