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Fawcett was only son of Sir William Claude Fawcett (1868–1935), a solicitor, of the Grange, Stainton, North Yorkshire, by his marriage in 1901 to Adeline, the daughter of Frederick Henry Brentnall, [1] the village schoolmaster at Stainton. [2] He began his hunting career at the age of two-and-a-half with the Cleveland Hunt. [3]
Crathorne is a civil parish in the Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England. It contains 21 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, three are listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
Saddleworth Moor in the Dark Peak area of the Peak District National Park is a moorland plateau that straddles the boundary with West Yorkshire. Bounded directly to the west by Oldham and the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in the north, Tameside in the south and Kirklees in the east. Saddleworth is 12 miles (19 km) southwest of Huddersfield.
There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England.This page is a list of 384 buildings in the unitary authority area of North Yorkshire.. As there are 536 Grade II* listed buildings in the district, the 152 churches and chapels are instead detailed in the article Grade II* listed churches in North Yorkshire (district).
Danby altered and extended the house, giving it the Gothic aspect it retains, in two building campaigns, to designs of the Yorkshire mason-architect John Foss of Richmond (1745–1827), [6] who became a close personal friend. In the first, of 1791–1796, the north range was added. A design for the Drawing Room, at least, was contributed by ...
Studley Royal Park is an estate in North Yorkshire, England.The site has an area of 800 acres (323 ha) [2] and includes an 18th-century landscaped garden; the ruins of Fountains Abbey; Fountains Hall, a Jacobean mansion; and the Victorian St Mary's church, designed by William Burges.
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Sir William was keenly interested to demonstrate in heraldry his connections in Yorkshire, and he used it to decorate the newly built room, to such an extent that in the 1590s, inventories show, there was a book to which visitors could refer in order to identify the arms in plaster, paint and glass. [8]