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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 ...
1855 Connection to Leeds & Thirsk Railway line to Ripon via Melmerby opened. Accidents occurred in 1867, 1870, 1875, 1879 and 1882. 1933 Britain's first "panel" route-setting power signal box opened at Thirsk. 1954 The first four carriages of the "Heart of Midlothian" express from King's Cross to Edinburgh composed of thirteen coaches derailed.
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.
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 ...
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In 1995, a group of volunteers got together to run it as a social project for Thirsk and Sowerby, initially as a Thirsk Town Council venture, [9] although that management lasted only a year. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] The business has been fully operated by volunteers since 1996, [ 12 ] when the management role shifted to a Volunteer Committee. [ 13 ]
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.