Yorkshire (85 pages found in this category)


Hob Moor

A local nature reserve and ancient common in York

Hoober Stand

Monumental tower in the form of a tapering pyramid topped with a hexagonal lantern, named for the ancient wood in which it was erected.

Howley Hall

Ruined Elizabethan country house in Morley, West Yorkshire, designated a scheduled monument in 1997.

Howroyd Colliery

Name for a number of day holes and drifts that worked the coal at the outcrop.

Huskar Pit Disaster

Deaths of 26 boys and girls working underground, drowned by an overflowing stream.

Jervaulx Abbey

Ruined Cistercian monastery and scheduled monument about one and a half miles (2.4 km) east of East Witton in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.

John Blenkinsop

Mining engineer at Charles Brandling’s Middleton Collieries who patented a rack and pinion system for a steam locomotive and commissioned the first practical railway locomotive from Fenton, Murray and Wood’s Round Foundry in Holbeck, Leeds in 1811.

Kaye’s Mineral Line

Standard gauge mineral line built to serve the pits owned by the Lister Kayes of Denby Grange in West Yorkshire.

Kirklees Priory

Medieval nunnery associated with the legend of the death of Robin Hood.

Ledston

Rural village in the City of Leeds district of West Yorkshire.