St Wilfrid's Church, South Stainley

South Stainley is a small village in the Harrogate District, in the county of North Yorkshire, England. Nearby settlements include the city of Ripon, the town of Harrogate and the village of Markington. South Stainley is on the A61 road. South Stainley has a pub and a place of worship, St Wilfrid's Church, which is a grade II listed structure.The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book as having 30 plough lands and a meadow covering 8 acres (3.2 ha). The name has been recorded variously as Southe Stanley, South Stonley and Kyrke Staynelay. The name derives from the Old Norse of Nyrran Stanlege, which means Stony forest or glade clearing. The presence of the prefix Kirk is due to it having a church as opposed to North Stainley. Historically, the village was in the wapentake of Claro, and is now in the Borough of Harrogate, some 5 miles (8 km) south of Ripon. The village sits on Stainley Beck, a tributary of the River Ure and the land is mostly magnesian limestone with a small outcrop of millstone grit around the village.The population of the parish was 174 at the 2001 census, falling slightly to 172 at the 2011 census. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to be 180.The village is the principal settlement in the civil parish of South Stainley with Cayton. Cayton is the site of a deserted medieval village 1-mile (1.6 km) west of South Stainley, and was the location of a grange established by Fountains Abbey in the Middle Ages.

Wormald Green railway station served the village of Wormald Green, Harrogate, England from 1848 to 1964 on the Leeds-Northallerton Railway.

Wormald Green is a village in the civil parish of Markington with Wallerthwaite in the district of Harrogate, North Yorkshire. In 2016, Harrogate Borough Council (HBC) estimated the population of the village to be 136. It is situated on the A61 road between Harrogate and Ripon which crosses over Markington Beck here.From 1848 to 1964 it was served by Wormald Green railway station on the Leeds–Northallerton Railway, though passenger services ceased already in 1962. There is a regular bus service provided by Harrogate Bus (route 36) along the A61 road linking Leeds with Ripon via Harrogate and serving Wormald Green. Buses ply the route on average of three per hour (every 20 minutes) rising to four per hour between 11:00 am and 16:00 pm. There is a hotel east of the bridge across the stream.

Nidd Hall was a 19th-century country house, now a hotel, in the village of Nidd, North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building. It is constructed of coursed squared gritstone and ashlar with grey slate roofs. It is built in 3 storeys in a 9 x 8 bay rectangular block.

St Paul and St Margaret's Church is the parish church of Nidd, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. There was a church in Nidd in the mediaeval period, and in 1848 it was described as "a very ancient structure". In 1851, it could accommodate 58 worshippers, and had an average attendance of 30. In 1866, the church was described as "in decay", and Miss Rawson of Nidd Hall funded its demolition and replacement. The new church was designed by Thomas Henry and Francis Healey, in the Decorated Gothic style. The building was grade II listed in 1966. The church is built of gritstone with a grey slate roof, and consists of a nave, a north aisle added in 1908, a south porch, a chancel and a west tower. The tower has three stages, angle buttresses, lancet windows, elaborate two-light bell openings with hood moulds, a clock face, and an embattled parapet with crocketed pinnacles. The porch is gabled and has an entrance with a pointed arch and hood mould; the outer entrance may be surviving 13th-century work. Inside, the Mediaeval font survives, as do several carved stones. The wast and west windows have stained glass by William Holland, while two on the north side have glass by Charles Eamer Kempe, one described by Nikolaus Pevsner as "exceptionally good".

Nidd is a small village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. The population of the village taken at the 2011 census was 168. It is situated 3 miles north of Harrogate, 1.2 miles (2 km) east of Ripley on the B6165 Pateley Bridge to Knaresborough road and near the River Nidd. The village used to have a railway station (Nidd Bridge) on the Leeds to Northallerton Railway, but this was closed down on 18 June 1962.The village takes its name from the River Nidd which passes through the parish. The parish church of St Paul & St Margaret has a stone monument to the Rawson family who owned Nidd Hall in the 19th and the early part of the 20th centuries. Nidd Hall is a former country house which has been converted into an hotel.Until 1889, Nidd was part of the Liberty of Ripon.

Markington is a village in the Harrogate district, in the English county of North Yorkshire. The population of the civil parish (including Markenfield Hall) taken at the 2011 census was 629. Nearby settlements include the city of Ripon, the town of Harrogate, the village of South Stainley and the hamlet of Ingerthorpe. The A61 is nearby. Markington has a school, post office, village hall, cricket and football pitch, a church, a pub and a camp site. The place name was first recorded in about 1030 as Mercinga tun. The name is probably from Old English mercinga "of the boundary people" and tūn "settlement or farmstead", so meaning "settlement of the boundary people". Or it might be derived from the name of the nearby settlement of Markenfield, so meaning "farmstead of the people of Markenfield".Markington is the principal settlement in the civil parish of Markington with Wallerthwaite. Wallerthwaite is a deserted medieval village just south of Markington. Markington with Wallerthwaite was historically a township in the parish of Ripon, and became a separate civil parish in 1866. It absorbed the civil parish of Ingerthorpe in 1937. Markington was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.

Brearton is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate borough of North Yorkshire, England, situated about 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Knaresborough. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book and its name derives from the Old English Brer-Tun, which means the town where the briars grew.According to the 2001 census it had a population of 141 increasing at the 2011 census to 146, however, in 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to be 150. This small village has just over 40 houses that are situated quite close together. The fields surrounding the village show evidence of Medieval farming. Brearton is located at the end of the road from Nidd and Scotton; it is only accessible by vehicle from the west.Whilst the village is popular for walkers, there are no shops, but there is one pub, The Malt Shovel, which The Guardian described as having "the best Sunday Lunches in Yorkshire."

Markington Hall is a historic building in Markington, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The house was built in the 17th century, and altered in the 18th century. It replaced an earlier property, from which late 15th-century outbuildings survive, part of which has served as a chapel in the past. In the 1920s and 1930s, the house was extended to the rear, and the interior was restored and altered. William Wilberforce owned the house, letting it out to tenants, and it has remained in his family since; in the 21st century using the grounds and outbuildings for holiday lets. It has been Grade II listed since 1952, and the outbuildings are separately Grade II listed. The house is built of gritstone and limestone, with moulded floor and eaves bands, and a stone slate roof. It has a two-storey three-bay hall range, and three-storey cross-wings with coped gables and shaped kneelers. In the centre is a doorway in an architrave, flanked by mullioned windows, and on the upper floor are sash windows. Elsewhere, most of the windows are mullioned. The barn and the outbuildings are built of sandstone, limestone and cobble, and have pantile roofs, that of the barn with eaves courses of stone slate. The barn has a timber framed core, five bays and side aisles. On the front are quoins, a large doorway, and blocked slit vents. The chapel range projects at right angles on the left, and contains doorways and paired pointed windows. Low Mill lies in the grounds of the hall.

Nidd Bridge railway station served the village of Nidd, North Yorkshire, England from 1848 to 1964 on the Leeds-Northallerton Railway.

Low Mill is a historic building in Markington, a village in North Yorkshire in England. The watermill was built in the early 19th century by the Wilberforce family, in the grounds of Markington Hall, with a mill race off Markington Beck. It was probably built to replace High Mill, at the other end of the village. It was worked as a corn mill, and from the early 1900s it was run by J. Ross & Sons, who mostly produced animal feed. It was powered by water until 1967, when it was converted into a garage and office. The building was Grade II listed in 1986. The mill is built of stone and rubble, with sandstone and limestone quoins, paired gutter brackets, and a Westmorland slate roof with gable copings. There are fronts of one and three bays, and on the right return is a two-storey lean-to range. In the left return is a sluice for the mill race. Inside, most the machinery survives, including the breastshot wheel, gearing, cogs, and grindstones.

St John's Church is an Anglican church in Brearton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was commissioned by Thomas Duncombe in 1836, and designed by James Pigott Pritchett. It originally seated 150 worshippers. The building was Grade II listed in 1987. The church is built of magnesian limestone with gritstone dressings, on a plinth, and has a chamfered eaves cornice ,and a purple slate roof with gable copings and shaped kneelers. There is a rectangular plan with three bays. The doorway at the west end has an ogee head and a hood mould, above which is a pilaster rising to a gabled bellcote with a crocketed finial. Inside, the north-east corner is partitioned off as a vestry. There is a reading desk, a pulpit and an octagonal font.