Lingy Hill

A later stone and steel supported road bridge carrying a C road.

The road can just about be seen.

Well its exactly as it says it is, in the middle of a field!

The Wensleydale railway is a preserved railway in North Yorkshire. The line currently runs 22 miles (35 km) between Northallerton on the East Coast Main Line and Redmire. This makes the line the longest heritage railway in Great Britain. Occasional freight services and excursions travel the full length of the line, however regular passenger services currently only operate between Leeming Bar and Redmire, a distance of 16.5 miles (27 km). Formerly the line ran from Northallerton to Garsdale on the Settle-Carlisle Railway. However the track between Redmire and Garsdale was lifted and several bridges and viaducts were demolished in the past. (Wikipedia) Link

From A684 eastbound

Opened in 1855 by the Bedale & Leyburn Railway as an extension of the line from Northallerton. Closed in 1954, and although the Wensleydale Railway now runs through the site, the station remained closed at the time this image was taken. View south from the main road.

A refined Georgian villa by John Carr, 1762-68, for Sir Marmaduke Asty Wyville. The proportions and the detailing are impeccable. Carr took the paring of the decoration to unusual lengths by eliminating the architrave from the entablature of the portico. Grade I listed. The house is still privately owned and only the grounds are open to the public. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In the C18th architectural hierarchy, Carr (1723-1807) was somewhat more accomplished than most of the breed of skilled, provincial builder-architects of the Georgian era. Whilst not sitting at the top table of the London elite, he was the only provincial member of the London Architects' Club, and "was known and respected in the most sophisticated architectural circles" (Howard Colvin's Biographical Dictionary of British Architects). Based in York (hence his moniker 'Carr of York'), he was "for more than half a century the principal architect practising in Yorkshire and the north of England" (Colvin). His successful and lucrative practice was based very much on country houses for the gentry, the exteriors of which were generally plain but immaculately proportioned and the interiors of which largely followed the fashions set by Robert Adam. He also designed public buildings, churches, and bridges, the latter in his capacity as Surveyor of Bridges for the West Riding (1760-73), and later, as the equivalent (but better-paid) for the North Riding. Carr was also actively engaged in civic life, serving as a city chamberlain, sheriff, alderman, Lord Mayor, and magistrate. All this was achieved in the absence of any professional training - like his father, grandfather and great grandfather before him he trained as a stonemason. On his death, the practice was inherited by his assistant, Peter Atkinson, whose son in turn inherited, and remarkably the practice continues to this day, currently in the guise of Brierley Groom, making it, according to Wikipedia, "the longest running practice in the United Kingdom and probably the world."

The road crosses the Wensleydale railway here, east of Harmby

Possibly the most secluded farm ever?

As with many railway stations, this appears to be of use to neither man nor beast. In the middle of nowhere. Evidence of recent additions alterations.

Originally the Bedale and Leyburn Railway, now reopened buy the Wensleydale Railway

In dappled shade. Whilst the road to Garriston crosses here, the bridge is nigh on impossible to discern.