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Thirsk and Sowerby Town Hall is a municipal building in Westgate, Sowerby, North Yorkshire, England. Although it is commonly described as being in Thirsk, it is on the south side of Westgate, which is in Sowerby. [1] The building is used as the meeting place of Thirsk Town Council and of Sowerby Parish Council.
Thirsk and Sowerby Town Hall. Thirsk has been in the Thirsk and Malton Parliamentary constituency since its creation for the 2010 general election. Kevin Hollinrake was elected MP at the 2015 UK general election. [24] The town was a parliamentary borough that had representation in 1295, and then from 1547 to 1885. For the majority of the latter ...
Thirsk Hall Blue Plaque. In 1722/23 the member of parliament Ralph Bell bought the manor of Thirsk for the sum of £6,300 (equivalent to £1,251,883 in 2023) from the 10th Earl of Derby. At the time the hall was constructed it had two storeys and five bays. Bell lived in the then new-built home, Thirsk Hall, located on Kirkgate next to St Marys ...
Darrowby is a composite of Thirsk, Richmond, Leyburn and Middleham (until 2017, Thirsk had a public house, named The Darrowby Inn, to recognise this). [1] Askrigg , in Wensleydale , was used for filming scenes set in Darrowby for the BBC production.
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Sowerby (/ ˈ s aʊ ər b i /) [2] is a village, electoral ward and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England immediately south of the neighbouring market town of Thirsk.Although the boundary between the two parishes runs very close to Thirsk town centre, the village retains its own identity and has a separate Parish Council.
It is 4 miles north of Thirsk and Brawith Hall is approximately a mile away from Knayton. The local primary school is Knayton Church of England Primary school, which provides education for 148 children between the ages of 4 and 11 years old. The village has a village hall that is situated on the green.
The Bells are Lords of the Manor of Thirsk in Yorkshire, living in Thirsk Hall, which John Bell inherited from his father, also called John Bell.The Manor has been in the family since the fifteenth century though there had been several cases where there was no direct heir and it had passed to a sister's son who had assumed the name Bell.