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FABULOUS FOLLIES
...and Landscape Curiosities

STAINTON DALE, North Riding

Ravenscar Mock Forts                                     NZ 981 018

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Mock Forts

Captain William Childs built Raven Hall in 1774 on the site of a Roman fort. In 1845 it was bought by Mr William Hammond who was a director of the Scarborough to Whitby Railway. He planned that the line passed through Ravenscar but died in 1885 before it was completed. The Peak Estate Company tried to develop a resort at Revenscar but the Company was declared bankrupt in the 1920s.

 

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Beacon Windmill                                                 ​NZ 976 006

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Beacon Windmill was built for William Hammond, the owner of the Raven Hall Estate, and has a date-stone 1858. 

​It was known as Peak Mill and was leased to the miller by the owner of the adjacent inn. 

It was used until 1902 when it lost two of its remaining its sails in a gale. 

The present owner purchased it in 2013 and it has been converted into a holiday let. 
Copyright Ray Blyth 2018