Darley Family
stoswald
I would like to find out more information than I already have on the
Darley family of Aldby Park, near York. George Winn-Darley is the
current owner, but I am trying to find a connection with Rosamond
Cholmley, who, apparently, was the daughter of Sir George Cholmley,
7th Baronet of that line. But which line? Burke's or Debrett's have
not come up with anything yet!
Rosamond married Henry Darley of Aldby Park.
Turenne
The following may help: there is an extra 'e' in Cholmeley which won't
have helped your research. I have found a Rosamond, but probably not
the one you're looking for, this may give you a starting point though.
http://www.thepeerage.com/p4821.htm#i48209
http://www.thepeerage.com/p7047.htm#i70470
http://www.thepeerage.com/p7047.htm#i70469
As a keen racegoer, I'm familiar with the Darley Arabian; any tips
gratefully accepted.
Richard Lichten
Michael Rhodes
the 5th Dragoon Guards, b 9 Sept 1839, d 25 Dec 1904, son of Henry
Brewster Darley (1809-60) by his wife Harriet Louisa dau of Harrington
Hudson, of Bessingby, East Riding, by Lady Anne his wife, dau of the
1st Marquess Townshend; m 1stly 1863, Charlotte, 3rd dau of James
Atty, of Court, co Lincoln, which lady d 1864. He m 2ndly, Rosamond (d
7 Apr 1894), sister of Harry Walter Cholmley (b 21 Dec 1871; d 1901,
see below), of Howsham, Yorks,having had issue:-
(i) Henry Algernon Cholmley Dafrley b 1 June 1870
(ii) Hugh Launcelot Darley b. 3 Nov 1873; d 1895
(iii) Cecil Geoffrey Darley, of Aldby Park and Spaunton Manor Lord of
the Manor of Spaunton b 20 June 1885
(i) Rosamond May Darley
(ii) Armetrude Charlotte Volet Darley, m 11 Jan 1900, Edwin Wardle,
son of the late C.Wardle, of Linton Spring, Wetherby, co York
(iii) Daphne Harriet Darley
(iv) Alice Marjorie Iris Darley
The abovementioned Rosamond Cholmley's brothers:- viz
(i) Alfred John Cholmley, of Place Newton, Yorks, BA (Camb) JP and DL
for the East Riding of Yorks, b 2 Sept 1845; married 1875, Mary dau of
the Rev F. Simpson, of Foston Yorks, and had issue, Hugh Alfred
Cholmley, Lieut. Yorks Hussars, Imperial Yeomanry, 7th Dragoon Guards,
of Dale, Milford Haven, b 1876 m 1 Aug 1912, Louisa Susan Violet, dau
of Maj-Gen Charles Rowland Hill, RA, of Newton le Willows, and was
father of Marion Eizabeth Cholmley, b 24 May 1913.
(ii) Harry Walter Cholmley (1871-1901) married 17 July 1879, Florence
Maria Caroline (d 7 March 1908) dau of Rev the Hon Henry Rice (of the
Barons Dynevor)
On 4 Apr, 13:39, "stoswald" <kevin.matthew...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I would like to find out more information than I already have on theDarleyfamily of Aldby Park, near York. George Winn-Darleyis the
stoswald
anyone now know who the father of Rosamond and Harry Walter Cholmley
was please?
Regards
On Apr 20, 6:12 pm, Michael Rhodes <migx73allenford2...@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
> HenryDarley, of Aldby Park, and Spaunton Manor, coYork, JP, DL, late
> the 5th Dragoon Guards, b 9 Sept 1839, d 25 Dec 1904, son of Henry
> BrewsterDarley(1809-60) by his wife Harriet Louisa dau of Harrington
> Hudson, of Bessingby, East Riding, by Lady Anne his wife, dau of the
> 1st Marquess Townshend; m 1stly 1863, Charlotte, 3rd dau of James
> Atty, of Court, co Lincoln, which lady d 1864. He m 2ndly, Rosamond (d
> 7 Apr 1894), sister of Harry Walter Cholmley (b 21 Dec 1871; d 1901,
> see below), of Howsham, Yorks,having had issue:-
> (i) Henry Algernon Cholmley Dafrley b 1 June 1870
> (ii) Hugh LauncelotDarleyb. 3 Nov 1873; d 1895
> (iii) Cecil GeoffreyDarley, of Aldby Park and Spaunton Manor Lord of
> the Manor of Spaunton b 20 June 1885
> (i) Rosamond MayDarley
> (ii) Armetrude Charlotte VoletDarley, m 11 Jan 1900, Edwin Wardle,
> son of the late C.Wardle, of Linton Spring, Wetherby, co York
> (iii) Daphne HarrietDarley
> (iv) Alice Marjorie IrisDarley
>
> The abovementioned Rosamond Cholmley's brothers:- viz
>
> (i) Alfred John Cholmley, of Place Newton, Yorks, BA (Camb) JP and DL
> for the East Riding of Yorks, b 2 Sept 1845; married 1875, Mary dau of
> the Rev F. Simpson, of Foston Yorks, and had issue, Hugh Alfred
> Cholmley, Lieut. Yorks Hussars, Imperial Yeomanry, 7th Dragoon Guards,
> of Dale, Milford Haven, b 1876 m 1 Aug 1912, Louisa Susan Violet, dau
> of Maj-Gen Charles Rowland Hill, RA, of Newton le Willows, and was
> father of Marion Eizabeth Cholmley, b 24 May 1913.
>
> (ii) Harry Walter Cholmley (1871-1901) married 17 July 1879, Florence
> Maria Caroline (d 7 March 1908) dau of Rev the Hon Henry Rice (of the
> Barons Dynevor)
>
> On 4 Apr, 13:39, "stoswald" <kevin.matthew...@btinternet.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hi
>
> > I would like to find out more information than I already have on theDarleyfamily of Aldby Park, near York. George Winn-Darleyis the
> > current owner, but I am trying to find a connection with Rosamond
> > Cholmley, who, apparently, was the daughter of Sir George Cholmley,
> > 7th Baronet of that line. But which line? Burke's or Debrett's have
> > not come up with anything yet!
>
> > Rosamond married HenryDarleyof Aldby Park.- Hide quoted text -
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Michael Rhodes
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The brothers and Rosamond are in Burke's Landed Gentry 1914 but with
no parentage listed. Have you seen this document ?
Howsham Mill and the Landscape at Howsham Hall
A Chronology
The water-powered corn mill may be medieval in origin. It was already
clearly in existence by the early 18C, although its exact foundation
date is unknown. The raised trackway to the east of the mill probably
provided access across the flooded water meadow (The Holms) from both
the Hall and village. This track runs along the line of a medieval
boundary and suggests that both the track and the mill are medieval in
date.
11th C Howsham appears as Husun in Domesday Survey. Belongs to Count
of Mortain.
1121 Included in lands given by Walter l'Espec to Kirkham Priory at
its foundation.
13th C Manor of Howsham held by the de Roos family
1285 Pasture of the park said to be worth 40 shillings.
1352 Manorial survey refers to deer in the park.
1363 Thomas de Roos complained that his park had been broken into and
deer taken.
No further references to medieval deer park have been found.
Mid 16thC After the Dissolution, granted by Edward VI to Thomas, Earl
of Rutland.
1573 Thomas Bamburgh bought manor of Howsham from Edward, grandson of
Thomas, Earl of Rutland.
1610 Howsham Hall built reputedly from ruins of Kirkham Priory.
(Listed Grade I). Possibly preserving portions of an earlier house.
Pevsner dates it as c.1610. Built by Sir William Bamburgh whose arms
impaled with wife Mary are over the entrance.
Marked on Speed's map.
1623 Sir William dies leaving estates of nearly 8,000 acres. (Both
sons die as minors within 8 years of father.) Estates divided between
surviving sister Catherine & sons of two other sisters, Mary wife of
Sir Thomas Wentworth of North Elmsall and Anne (or Amy), wife of Sir
William Robinson of Newby. Lady Wentworth's eldest son, Thomas
Wentworth (b. 1619), inherits Howsham.
1648 Blaeu map: Howsham marked but no detail other than village.
1653 Thomas's second son, John, succeeds his father. He married
Catherine, daughter of Sir Thomas Norcliffe of Langton.
1667 John Wentworth knighted.
1671 John Wentworth dies aged 26.
1689 Only son of Sir John Wentworth dies unmarried. Howsham (& North
Elmsall) inherited by cousin, John, eldest son of Henry Wentworth, a
younger brother of Sir John Wentworth .
1692 John Wentworth created a baronet. He married twice. First
Barbara Lowther, daughter of Sir John Lowther, Bt, afterwards Viscount
Lonsdale, by whom he had a daughter, Catherine. Second Lady Elizabeth
Cavendish, daughter of William, 2nd Duke of Devonshire, by whom he had
a son, Sir Butler Cavendish Wentworth.
Hall decayed and tenanted without gardens.
1702 Act of Parliament created a statutory private right of navigation
upstream to Yedingham & permitted construction of locks for through
navigation.
1705 Joseph Dickinson A map of the Manor of Howsham. A survey of the
manor of Howsham shewing the content of each close in acres roods and
perches according to the series of numbers on the map. Note this
Lordship belongs wholly to Sir John Wentworth bart & Fairfax Norcliffe
Esq. All the closes belonging the first noted with small alphabetical
letters assigned each tenant & those belonging the latter are noted
with N etc. Total 1841acres 3 roods 36 perches.
The land in closes by this date. Large area of meadow & pasture
suggesting some conversion of arable land to grass. Access to Hall
from bridge via Mill Green then via Holmes Closes or through the
village from Leppington Road.
The Mill is marked.
1718 Painting by John Booth, Howsham, One of the Seats of the Hon. Sir
John Wentworth Bart in the East Riding of the County of York.
Ornate formal pleasure gardens and productive gardens.
1720 Sir John Wentworth dies. Howsham inherited by his son, Sir
Butler Cavendish Wentworth, (by second wife, Lady Elizabeth Cavendish,
daughter of 2nd Duke of Devonshire). Married Bridget, daughter of Sir
Ralph Milbanke Bt, of Halnaby (nr Darlington). No issue.
1741 On Sir Butler Cavendish Wentworth's death baronetcy becomes
extinct. Howsham inherited by half sister Catherine Wentworth
(daughter of Sir John Wentworth by 1st wife), who had married Hugh
Cholmley of Whitby.
1748 Catherine dies and is succeeded by her eldest son, Nathaniel
Cholmley b. 1721. Nathaniel marries three times. First to Catherine,
daughter of SirRowland Winn of Nostell, Bt, by whom he had two
daughters, Catherine b 1752, d 1818, married to Henry Hopkins Fane
Esq., and Mary b 1755, married to Abraham Grimes Esq.,. Second to
Henrietta Catherine, daughter of Stephen Croft of Stillington, Esq.,
by whom he had a son, Hugh Cholmley (1758-1769) and two daughters,
Henrietta b 1760, m 1778 to Sir William Strickland Bt, and Anne
Elizabeth b 1769, married to Constantine, Lord Mulgrave. Third to
Anne Jessie, daughter of Leonard Smelt of Leases Esq. Tutor to the
Prince of Wales, afterwards George IV, by whom he had a son Nathaniel,
d.s.p.
1755 Nathaniel Cholmley inherits Howsham. The family leave their
ancient seat at Whitby and make Howsham their chief country
residence.
1757 Record of 'particulars of goods, merchandises, wares or
commodities to be carried from Hull to Malton or Malton to Hull and of
freights, tolls and duties to be paid'.
1758 Samuel & Isaac Milbourn, A plan of the township of Howsham.
Compared to 1705: Boundaries within Holmes Closes removed and no canal-
like drain but other drains in Holms. Mill shown with cut forming
three islands.
1755/1760 Howsham Mill (date 1760 over the door) probably by Carr.
Designed to be seen within the landscaped parkland as a Gothick eye-
catcher with ogee door and window heads and quatrefoil windows. Oldest
dated grafitti 1757 on a stone built into the left hand edge of the
right hand (blind) window of the south façade. Also 1760 on a stone to
the left side of the door on the south façade. This is likely to be
the heir to that from which the tithes were given by Walter l'Espec to
Kirkham Priory, along with the fishery. [28 cottages, manor park and
mill in 14th century.]
1771 Jeffrey's Map outlines Howsham - N Cholmley Esq - with mill and
cut, stream,
1775 Interior of house improved with advice of John Carr of York and
assistant Thomas (?Peter) Atkinson.
Lancelot 'Capability' Brown paid 50gns.
Stable block (listed grade II) attributed to John Carr.
1776 A map of the Manor at Howsham. The Cut and Mill marked.
Late 18C Howsham Bridge of rusticated sandstone with 3 segmental
arches.
1791 Nathaniel Cholmley dies. As both his sons had predeceased him he
was succeeded by brother, William.
1792 William dies and Howsham inherited by Nathaniel's eldest
daughter, Catherine [Katherine], whose husband, Henry Hopkins Fane,
took the Cholmley name. Their sons, Charles, b 1780 (d. 1821), and
George, b 1781 succeeded in turn.
1792 A Plan of the Manor at Howsham. Mill marked.
1809 Henry Hopkins Fane Cholmley dies and son Charles succeeds but
dies unmarried in 1821.
1814 William Wildon rental book indicates closes in arable, grass and
old sward.
1818 Greenwood's Map of Yorkshire marks Hall. Detail questionable.
1821 Younger son Col George Cholmley succeeds. He married 1824,
Hannah, daughter of John Robinson Foulis Esq. Of Buckton.
1829 J P Neale, Howsham Hall, Yorkshire, The Seat of Henry Cholmley
Esqr, published by Jones & Co.
1839/40 Howsham Mill insured for £300 - two floors, built of stone &
slate, three pairs of stones. No shelling mill or drying kiln.
It appears that the mill was equipped with new machinery at this time
(as the surviving equipment conforms to a layout which had not been
developed as early as c1760).
1850 Howsham village with population of 194.
1856 OS 6 inches: 1 mile published.
The Holms Swing bridge & lock marked. Howsham Mill (corn).
Scattered trees in The Holms. The Cut & Foot Path on east river
bank. Mill Dam, Sluice. Track across The Holms to Swing Bridge.
1857 Colonel George Cholmley dies. No male heir and Howsham passes to
Robert Grimes, a grandson of Nathaniel Cholmley by his second
daughter, Mary.
1864 Robert Grimes dies without issue. Sir George Strickland 7th Bt,
b 1782, succeeds in right of his mother Henrietta, daughter of
Nathaniel Cholmley by his second wife, Henrietta Catherine Croft. Sir
George married first, Mary, daughter of Rev Charles Constable of
Wassand, Hull.
1865 Sir George Strickland is authorised by Royal License to take
surname of Cholmley only, and to bear the arms of Cholmley and
Wentworth quarterly.
Sir George Strickland dies aged 92. Succeeded by his younger brother,
Sir Charles Strickland 8th Bt of Boynton (did not take the name
Cholmley). Married Georgina Selina Septima, daughter of Sir William
Milner of Nun Appleton, Bt..
1891 Miller is William Day.
1903-1905 Miller is Wilson-Remmer.
1909 Sir Charles Strickland dies age 90. Howsham devised to his only
daughter, Mrs Esther Anne Willoughby. She had married 1898, Col the
Hon Tatton Lane Fox Willoughby.
1910 Many of buildings in bad state. Shooting is let with the Hall to
Lord Garnock.
OS 25 inches:1 mile Holms with towing path. Track from Lodge to Swing
Bridge, & old track broken.
1912 OS 6 inches: 1 mile published.
The Holms The Cut. Towing Path (was 'Foot Path'). E/W Drain
partially gone, only central portion marked.
1935 River Derwent Navigation Act Revocation Order establishes no
stautory public right to navigate the Derwent or its tributories above
Sutton-on-Derwent. Rights of use vested solely in riparian owners
unless indicated otherwise.
Mrs Willoughby died without issue. Howsham passed to her sister-in-law
and husband's niece the Hon Mrs Ida Mary Hazel Strickland, nee
Willoughby, daughter of 10th Baron Middleton, married to Captain H
Strickland.
1946 Miller of 27 years Carl Carr passed to Johnny Braithwaite who
gave it up in 1947. This is the last time the mill was known to have
been used.
1946/47 Aerial photographs. Ditches & trackway in Holms.
1948 Howsham Hall and contents sold with c.1,600 acres
1949-57 Howsham Hall stood empty.
1951 Howsham Hall threatened with demolition
Howsham Hall vacant and in disrepair bought but remained vacant.
Permission given to demolish it.
1957 Land between Howsham Hall and the River Derwent (The Holms and
Howsham Mill) sold to Cleminson and Clapham.
Howsham Hall bought by Mr Knock with the aid of the efforts of the
York Georgian Society and becomes a preparatory school. A government
grant of £19,635 gives assistance towards restoration of the Hall.
The stable block, barn, buildings and land are in several
ownerships.
Howsham Mill and the island on which it stands, together with all
fishing rights along the Derwent between Howsham Bridge and Howsham
Hall sold to Bradford No. 1 Angling Association.
Howsham Mill threatened with demolition due to unsafe condition.
Examined by J.E.Williams of RCHM.
Howsham Mill entered on the national register of historic monuments.
Listed Grade II.
1966 - 1990 Mill equipment looted for scrap value. Building
subsequently vandalised and roof burnt down. Subsequent gradual decay
due to growth of vegetation and the weather.
1967 Aerial photographs.
1969 Aerial photo, SE735628, CUC:BAA28, 13/11/69
1970 OS 1:2500 map. Track across Holms marked to Mill (Disused).
1973 Aerial photo, 02273218, 16/05/73 Ditches & trackway in Holms.
Aerial photo, PVA77:4:10 1977. Features as in 1973.
Howsham weir repaired and lock cleaned out by volunteers from
Yorkshire Derwent Trust, in preparation for planned reopening of the
navigation. Slot constructed in weir.
Swing bridge still in use for access to island.
1990 Howsham Mill entered on the Buildings at Risk Register.
Howsham Mill and the island on which it stands purchased by Mr
Burrows.
YDT concede defeat in battle to re-open the navigation. Ownership of
Howsham weir and lock passes to the NRA, now the Environment Agency.
1995 River Derwent, and the whole of the island on which Howsham Mill
stands designated as SSSI by English Nature.
Howsham Hall and Park entered on English Heritage Register of Historic
Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest, Grade II.
Some Refs:
Allison, K T, East Riding Water-mills, East Riding Local History
Society, 1970, Reprinted 1975.
Howsham: A miller is mentioned in 1937 and went out of use soon after
Second World War. Subsequently burnt out and now stands derelict.
Dated grafitti, oldest 1760.
Building of brick faced with stone and tile, 2 storeys and loft.
There were two pairs of stones. Undershot wheel was fed by race from
the Derwent. All Iron diameter 14 ft. 8 ins.: width 5 ft. 5ins. River
level raised by weir and boats on the Derwent Navigation used a cut,
with a lock, to by-oass the mill. Much machinery collapsed in a fire,
but the gearing survives and four wheels, two broken stones. Dresser
and two other machines, one possibly a cake crusher.
Bulmer T & Co, History Topography & Directory of East Yorkshire,
Preston, 1892, 263-4
Howsham township contains 2,150 acres of land, situated on the east
bank of the Derwent. The surface is undulated; the soil varies from
strong clay to light loam and sand, with a subsoil of clay, sand and
limestone. Barley and turnips are the chief crops, but a large
portion of land is laid down in pasture, and numbers of cattle and
horses are bred. The township is valued for rating purposes at
£2.284, and the number of inhabitants in 1891 was 199. Sir Charles
William Strickland, Bart., of Boynton Hall, who is lord of the manor,
and the Rev Charles Best Norcliffe, of Langton Hall, are the principal
landowners. The inhabitants vote in the Leavening division for the
election of a County Councillor.
The village consists of a single row of houses, seven-and-a-half miles
south-by-west of Malton, and three miles south-east from Barton Hill
station, on the York, Scarborough, and Whitby branch of the North-
Eastern Railway. A chapel-of-ease was erected here in 1860, by Mrs
Cholmley, in memory of her husband and three children. It is a
handsome cut-stone structure in the Gothic style, consisting of a
spacious chancel, nave north transept, west porch, and tower
containing four bells. The chancel, which is divided from the nave by
an elegant trefoil arch, is lighted by four stained-glass windows
representing scenes from the life of Christ. The floor is laid with
encaustic tiles, and behind the communion table is a carved stone
reredos in three compartments, artistically inlaid with mosiac work.
Most of the windows of the nave are filled with stained-glass. The
font is a handsome piece of work, circular in design, and ornamented
by inlaid marble of various colours. The National school was rebuilt
by the late Colonel Cholmley, in 1852. It is mixed and attended by 22
children.
Howsham Hall, the property of Sir Charles W Strickland, Bart., and
residence of Harry Walter Cholmley, Esq., J P, C C, D L, is a large
and handsome mansion in the Elizabethan style, standing in a park of
about 50 acres, and surrounded by beautiful pleasure grounds. The
house was built by William Bamburgh, Esq., who is said to have brought
a large quantity of stone used in its erection from the ruins of
Kirkham Abbey.
Clough Miss, schoolmistress
Foster John, bootmaker
Marshall Miss Anne, grocer
Farmers:
Burton John, Oxfield house; Carr William, Paradise house; Day William
(and miller); Goodwill John, Grange farm; Harriman John, Gally gap;
Harrison John, Farfield house; Noble John, Wood house; Stephenson,
Thomas & Henry, Low Ground farm; Stckton William, White house; Thomas
Miss Mary Ann, Middlefield house; Triffitt Philip, Scalla Moor house.
Environment Agency, Derwent Consultation Report, Feb 1997.
River Derwent is one of few largely undisturbed lowland rivers in
England and Wales. There are more than 60 sites of SSSI within the
Derwent area (1/10th of Yorkshire) and 3 National Nature Reserves and
an AONB. The Derwent is Yorkshire's largest source of drinking water,
supplying Leeds, Wakefield, Sheffield, Hull etc.
Fisheries: Brown trout, grayling, brook lampreys.
Conservation: The Derwent is internationally recognised in terms of
nature conservation. It is a prime example of a lowland riverand
river SSSI covered by a Memorandum of Understanding signed with
English Nature in August 1995.
Fishing takes place by individuals or match anglers.
P91. 1702 Act of Parliament created a stautory private right of
navigation upstream to Yedingham and permitted the construction of
locks to enable through navigation past the existing wiers in the
river.
The 1702 Act was revoked by the River Derwent Navigation Act
Revocation Order 1935 and subsequent litigation recently established
that no statutory public right to navigate the Derwent or its
tributories above Sutton-on-Derwent existed under the 1702 Act or
Highways Act 1980.
Unless otherwise shown, any rights to use of the river upstream of
Sutton-on-Derwent for navigation are vested solely in the riparian
owners (bed and banks belong to them).
Canoeists use the fast water at Howsham weir through the slot in its
crest which allows the passage of fish.
Hatcher, Jane, The Industrial Architecture of Yorkshire, Phillimore,
1985.
P128. Mill built c.1755, probably to a design by John Carr. It had a
pyramidal hipped roof and window and door of Gothick shape. Facades
decorated with a symmetrical arrangement of blank Gothick windows and
quatrefoils, plastered and painted to look as if they had glazing
bars. So dual purpose corn mill and folly.
Pevsner East Riding 1972, p265; Pevsner & Neave 2nd ed 1995, p494-496
HOWSHAM HALL. The S front is one of the sights of the East Riding,
Jacobean (c.1619), not extremely large, but wonderfully even and
complete. Two storeys, stone, with a top cresting of many semicircles
with ball finials. The fenestration runs as follows: a canted bay
(5/8) two windows, the frontispiece, two windows, a canted bay (5/8).
The windows on both floors are of four lights with two transoms. The
bays are of 2+2+4+2+2 lights. The frontispiece has paired Roman Doric
columns, and paired Corinthian columns over. There is ample, yet not
excessive glazing, and the frontispiece prevents too grid-like an
effect. The Jacobean house extended to the N in two projecting
wings. The E side of the house is an early C18 remodelling by Sir
John Wentworth; his crest and the date 1709 are on the downpipes, very
plain,of six bays, and the W side is irregular.
...interior...drastically remodelled c.1775. Almost certainly the
architect was John Carr who is known to have worked for the owner,
Nathaniel Cholmley at this date.
STABLES also of c.1775 attributed to Carr. Brick, with two main
entrances, the cupola over the W entrance.
WATER MILL. Derelict at the time of writing. The architecture is
Gothick. Ogee door and window heads and quatrefoil windows are
characteristic of the C18 Gothic Revival.
Rushton, J, The Ryedale Story, Ryedale District Council, c.1982.
Acreage 2,151. Population 112
Watermill heir to that from which tithes were given by Walter Espec to
Kirkham Priory, along with the fishery. 28 cottages, manor park and
mill in 14C. Brick stable block 1775, lodges and gateways. Hall built
c.1612-19 for Sir W Bamburgh - arms over the front door. 1958 the
hall became a boys school.
Yorkshire Derwent Trust Ltd. Derwent Guide, 1977
The navigation to Malton annually carried about 20,000 tons of corn
downstream and 20,000 tons of coal and other requirements upstream..
The coming of the railways in the mid C19 brought economic ruin to the
Derwent.
Yorkshire Gazette July 18 1947, 'Yorkshire's Green and Pleasant Land
28', Amy Dixon. 'In an Old World Village on Derwentside. The
Tranquility of Howsham'. Y 070
Hon Mrs Strickland lives in the Hall. Up to 1905 the mill produced
old-fashioned millstone flour famed for its quality. After 1905
ground only meal for cattle. - According to Mr A Wilson Remmer whose
family milled flour early C20. Mr Carl Carr, the miller for 27 years
was grinding cattle food from barley meal and rolled oats. The mill
was taken over at Michaelmas 1946 by Johnny Braithwaite of Low Ground
Farm, but recently given up. Nobody at the mill. Great deal f timber
round Howsham, though much is being cut down.
Mr Frederick Carr and his sister Mrs Parker live at Paradise Farm -
shrouded by a thick plantation. The house has no hall or passage and
an early Victorian bedroom.
Yorkshire Evening Press Sept 23 1965, 'Danger at Mill means it may
have to go', Ron Willis & Jim Mitchinson
Bradford Angling Association No1, say the mill is a source of danger
and have requested demolition. A workaday job as a watermill and also
"...Dressed on three sides in mid C18 "Gothic" styleas an eye-catching
piece of landscape decoration." The fourth side fronting the river
and housing C19 machinery which probably replaced the original works
and of plain brick. It is a particularly early example in the North
of Gothic Revival. It was in 1753 Horace Walpole began the
embellishment of his Twickenham house, Strawberry Hill with this style
and the mill can be dated as early as 1760. This date accompanied by
initials, has been carved twice on jambs of the south face and the
style of the figures and the lettering leaves their authenticity in no
doubt. The interesting pyramidal roof has lost most of its slates.
Mr J E Williams of the York office of RCHM examined the mill for the
National Buildings Record and said that there was a 99% chance that
the mill is by John Carr of York from studying the details of churches
by him at Dewsbury, Denton and Ravenfield in the West Riding.
HOWSHAM HALL and LANDSCAPE
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chronology but do not have access to Burke's 1914. It was good of you
to cut and paste this information. It would seem, for one reason or
another, that the parentage of Rosamond is a blank. I have tried the
current owner of Place Newton and Boynton Hall (both descendants of
Cholmley's) and they cannot help either.
On Apr 23, 11:50 pm, Michael Rhodes <migx73allenford2...@yahoo.co.uk>
Michael Rhodes
Peter C
Jelena JS
M, #586663, b. 20 November 1782, d. 23 December 1874
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