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The name was changed in 1731. The original name survives in the form of Stainborough Castle, a sham ruin constructed as a garden folly on the estate. The estate was in the care of the Wentworth Castle Heritage Trust from 2001 to June 2019 and was open to the public year-round seven days a week.
Twenty-one of the fossil plant species described by Artis were new to science. [2] Many of the species names he introduced are still used by palaeobotanists [8] — partly because the quality of the illustrations and the clear descriptions eliminated ambiguity. Artis’s research had outstanding value because he collected fossils by his own ...
Ulmus × hollandica 'Wentworthii Pendula' (in continental Europe also spelled 'Wendworthii Pendula'), commonly known as the Wentworth Elm or Wentworth Weeping Elm, is a cultivar with a distinctive weeping habit that appears to have been introduced to cultivation towards the end of the 19th century.
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The Obelisk to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, in Wentworth Castle Gardens, South Yorkshire, has been upgraded to Grade II* by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on the advice of Historic England.
The name sardine is used for many different species of small, oily fishes; the appropriate things to do are to write an article describing the attributes the species have in common under that name, and create separate articles for each genus. However, when there is a clear core meaning for the common name, with other meanings by analogy, then ...
Wentworth Castle: not a castle but a country house. Amongst post-medieval buildings in England that are known as castles, a few, such as Peckforton Castle, closely resemble medieval castles. Many others, such as Clearwell Castle, have some castle-like features, and some, like Mereworth Castle, bear no resemblance whatsoever to a castle. The ...
Stainborough is a civil parish in the metropolitan borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The parish contains 33 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade I, the highest of the three grades, eight are at Grade II*, the middle grade, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade. The parish contains the former ...