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...and Landscape Curiosities

BARNINGHAM, North Riding

Barningham Hall Ice House                          NZ 088 100    

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 A brick-lined chamber, about 4 X 3.5 metres, is built into the hillside at Adam Hill to form an icehouse. It has a dressed stone rebated doorway and may have had an outer passage. It dates from about 1800.









Date taken: 2010 


Milbank Obelisk                                                  NZ 087 102

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 The obelisk was erected in 1887 as a memorial to three members of the Milbank family. 





















Date take: 2010

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Obelisk                                                                       NZ 088 100

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​Date taken: 2009
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Date taken: 2009

Barningham Stone Circle                              NZ o84 102     

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 To give a prehistoric feel for the 2500 B.C. theme day in Barningham on 8th July 2006, twelve old gateposts were erected in a circle.

Other recently erected stone circles are at;
​BROMPTON, (Near Northallerton) North Riding
SCARBOROUGH, North Riding





Date taken 2010 

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Milbank Wellhead                                           NZ 087 102       

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  he Wellhead was erected by the Dowager Lady Milbank to commemorate the marriage, on the 12th July 1904, of Fredrick Milbank and Dorothy Wilson.




















Date taken: 2010

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