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29th November, 2017. Humberside large period houses – Brantinghamthorpe Hall.

From the early 18th century onwards the southern Yorkshire Wolds were a preferred locality for rich Hull merchants and businessmen to buy land and have built a country residence and grounds reflecting their wealth and status and, often, taking advantage of the views offered by the rolling landscape compared with the level ground of the […]

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24th November, 2017. Humberside large period houses (cont.).

Thorpe Hall in the village of Rudston, west of Bridlington, (see above) is the product of various building schemes across 200 years from the late 17th century. It is (I think) sometimes open to the public but beyond the house are extensive facilities for camping/caravanning, horse riding etc. In his detailed description of Thorpe Hall

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24th November, 2017. Humberside large period houses (cont.) + news item.

Across the southern part of the ‘High Wolds’ (northern half of Yorkshire Wolds) four large period house all stand on roughly the same latitude, Sledmere House (see above), Thorpe Hall, Rudston, Boynton Hall and Sewerby Hall, the middle two standing in the ‘great valley’ of the Gypsey Race which has carved a west-east valley across

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