Kiplin Hall stands near the River Swale in the beautiful Vale of Mowbray, between the Yorkshire Dales and the North Yorkshire Moors. The Hall was built as a hunting lodge in the early 1620s for George Calvert, Secretary of State to James I, later the 1st Lord Baltimore…
Distance:
6.3 miles
away
Set amid woodland below the escarpment of the North York Moors and the Cleveland Way National Trail, the ruins of this 14th‐century monastery represent the best preserved charterhouse of the 10 Carthusian monasteries in Britain. This is England's most important Carthusian ruin. The individual cells reflect the…
Distance:
5.5 miles
away
Visited by Charlotte Bronte in 1839; a family legend gave her the idea for the mad Mrs Rochester in 'Jane Eyre'. The house is an original of 'Thornfield Hall'. The building is late medieval with Stuart and Georgian additions. Pictures, furniture, china and costumes reflect…
Distance:
11.4 miles
away