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A fine example of an estate village with its golden stone, ruddy-tiled cottages stand among flowers. Creepers and trim little greens at the massive entrance to Hovingham Hall, home of the Duchess of Kent’s ancestors.
Her ancestor Sir Thomas Worsley, George III’s surveyor-General designed the hall in the mid-1700s and much of the layout of the village goes to him and his successors.
A pretty stream flows through the northern end of the village with a ford beside a footbridge leading to cottages in Brookside.
The Church of All Saints, rebuilt in 1860 still retains its late Anglo-Saxon tower.
- Type:
- Landmark