Farnham, North Yorkshire

Scriven is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England, close to the town of Knaresborough. From 1947 to 1998 Scriven was part of the Claro Registration District, until this was abolished. It is situated north-west of the A6055 road from Bond End and situated north-east of the B6165 Ripley Road. Scriven-with-Tentergate was a parish however in modern days it is now known as Scriven due to a boundary change. The name Scriven originally meant "Hollow-place" with pits and could have referred to the quarrying that occurred nearby. Tentergate however contains the derivative "gate", which is the Scandinavian translation for street, and was the place where cloth was stretched for drying.

Home Farm House is a historic building in Scriven, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The timber framed building was perhaps built in about 1500, probably as the main farmhouse of the Slingsby Estate of Scriven Hall. It was a hall house with a rear aisle, in a style common in the Vale of York. It was altered around 1600, when the ground floor was rebuilt in stone, and around 1800 the upper floor was partly encased in brick. By the 1850s, it was serving as the Kings Head Inn. It was sold by Scriven Hall in 1965, and restored, the work including a rear extension and the replacement of many of the rear windows. It has been grade II* listed since 1966. The ground floor of the house is underbuilt in gritstone, the upper floor is encased in red-orange brick, and it has a hipped pantile roof. It has two storeys and three bays and outshuts. On the front is a doorway, five-light and four-light mullioned windows on the ground floor, and horizontally sliding sash windows on the upper floor. On the left return is exposed close studding. Inside, there is an inglenook fireplace, exposed timber framing and wall paintings dating from about 1600.

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.

Copgrove is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England, five miles (8 km) south-west of Boroughbridge and the A1(M) motorway. The village is close to Rober Beck, which has been influenced by glaciers and overflowing channels. Copgrove was described in 1870–72 as: Pop., 68. Houses, 14. The property is all in one estate. Copgrove Hall is the seat of T. Duncombe, Esq., and contains some good portraits. The parish is made up of 1,000 acres (400 ha) of land. The surface is hilly with a single stream running through it, a tributary of the Ure, which separates Copgrove from the parish of Burton-Leonard.

Scriven Park was a historic house and estate in Knaresborough, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The estate was the home of the Slingsby family from the 13th century. The house was rebuilt in the early 18th century for Sir Henry Slingsby, 5th Baronet. The new building was designed by William Wakefield in the neoclassical style, with an enclosed portico. The family died out in the late 19th century, the estate was sold and later broken up. It was requisitioned at the start of World War II, but was empty when it was damaged by a fire in the early 1950s. It was demolished in 1954. The gate piers survive, as do the coach house and stables, converted into a house. The two pairs of gate piers at the entrance to the drive are constructed of rusticated stone. The inner pair are about 4 metres (13 ft) high, and each pier has a moulded plinth and a deep cornice, on which are four S-shaped supports on balls, carrying a swagged orb and a coronet. The outer gate piers are smaller, about 3.5 metres (11 ft) high, and are surmounted by ball finials. They have been grade II* listed since 1966. The former stables and coach house is now known as Scriven Hall. The building was constructed in 1682 for Thomas Slingsby, and was converted into a house in 1966. It is built of gritstone, with a stone slate roof. It is two storeys high, with the stables being seven bays wide, and the coach house a single bay. The main entrance is on the west side in a round archway, with the shield of the Slingsbys above. The windows are mullioned, with most being 20th century replacements. There is a bellcote with a clock and a weathervane.

Jacob Smith Park is a park owned by Harrogate Borough Council in the outskirts of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England. It is located in Scriven, and was opened in 2008.

St Michael's Church is an Anglican church in Copgrove, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. A church was recorded in Copgrove in the Domesday Book, and it is possible that the lowest courses of sandstone in the south nave wall may survive from this building. The church was rebuilt in the 12th century, in limestone, and by 1216 it belonged to the Knights Hospitallers. In the late 17th century, it is believed that a tower and short steeple were removed, and replaced by the current bellcote. The building was restored in 1889, and then more thoroughly by C. Hodgson Fowler in 1897, when the roof was raised and floor lowered. From 1911 until 1919, the rector of the church was Henry Major. The building was Grade II* listed in 1966. It church built of limestone with a stone slate roof, and consists of a nave with a south porch, and a chancel with a north vestry. On the west gable is a bellcote with a segmental arch and a moulded pediment. In the chancel is a Norman window, the other chancel windows are Decorated or Perpendicular in style, and the nave windows date from the restoration. In the north-east exterior corner of the vestry is a carved stone, either Saxon or early Norman. It is known as the "Devil's Stone", and depicts a Sheela-na-gig. Inside the church, the altar is a 12th-century slab rediscovered during the restoration. The chancel arch is also a 12th-century survival, with chevron and dogtooth motifs. The nave walls are panelled with wood reused from 17th- and 18th-century pews. There is a brass inscription from 1637, and a board with the arms of Queen Anne of Great Britain, painted over those of Charles II. There are numerous wall memorials from the 18th and 19th centuries, to the Duncombe family, who lived at Copgrove Hall.

Copgrove railway station served the village of Copgrove, North Yorkshire, England from 1875 to 1964 on the Pilmoor, Boroughbridge and Knaresborough Railway.

Hay-a-Park Gravel Pit is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, or SSSI, adjacent to the east side of the town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England. Having been a disused and flooded quarry since the 1970s, it now consists of the large Hay-a-Park Lake and three smaller ponds, besides associated reedbeds, scrub, woodland and grassland. It was designated as a SSSI in 1995 because it supports a number of wintering birds, including a large flock of goosander. This site is "one of the most northerly inland breeding populations of reed warbler in Britain." Hay-a-Park was once part of a royal park, an early landowner being Edward II.

St John's House is a historic building in Knaresborough, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The open hall house was constructed using timbers dated between 1488 and 1490. It built for the Prebendary of Beechill. A written confession of sins, dated to the early 16th century, was later found hidden in a beam in the building. The house was sold by the church in 1776, and has since been a private residence. It was grade II listed in 1952. The house is timber framed, with the ground floor and rear encased in gritstone, partly rendered, and it has a pantile roof. It has two storeys, three bays, and a rear aisle. The doorway has a gabled hood, and most of the windows date from the 20th century. In the upper floor is exposed close studded timber framing and curved braces. Inside, the original beams and joists survive and are visible. There is a large stone fireplace, and the stairs have 17th-century balusters.

Knaresborough Hay Park Lane railway station was a temporary railway station that served the town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England from 1848 to 1851 on the Harrogate line.

Knaresborough House is a historic building in Knaresborough, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The house was built in the late 18th century, for the Collins family. It remained in the family until 1951, when it was sold to Knaresborough Urban District Council, which converted it into a town hall, with a council chamber and offices. It has been grade II listed since 1952. The house is built of limestone, with a balustraded band over the ground floor, a moulded eaves cornice, and a hipped stone slate roof. The main block has three storeys and five bays, with a single-storey two-bay wing on the left and a two-storey two-bay wing on the right. In the centre is a portico with Tuscan columns carrying a fluted frieze, a dentilled cornice, and a triangular pediment, and a doorway with a fanlight. The windows are sashes. Inside, there is a cantilevered staircase, with a landing window containing painted glass, depicting coats of arms and monograms of the Collins family. The council chamber has a decorative plaster ceiling, and a wooden fireplace carved in the Classical style.