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Dist:0.2km north<br/>
©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.2km north<br/>Arthington Viaduct, built 1846, carries the Harrogate-Leeds railway line from North Yorkshire across the River Wharfe into West Yorkshire. The viaduct, for the Leeds and Thirsk Railway, was engineered by Thomas Granger and built by James Bray. It was 1510 feet long, had 21 arches and required over 50,000 tons of stone to construct.
©Roger Crowther
Dist:0.3km north<br/>The view just before crossing the Wharfe on the Wharfe viaduct.
©DS Pugh
Dist:0.4km north<br/>The road is Chapel Hill Lane.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Castley Hall was built by Robert Dyneley shortly before 1702. It is of coursed gritstone, with a five-bay front, and has chamfered alternate quoins at the corners. The central doorway has a broken segmental pediment. The house has its back to the road. It has been devided into two dwellings.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>Here there is a sharp bend in the river, which has cut into the hillside to form an earth cliff.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>This is Castley Lane, which bends to the left in the middle distance, and Chapel Hill Lane goes off to the right. The building at the junction carries the parish notice board.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.4km north<br/>A ditch drains (not very effectively) this valley. For some reason it is marked 'Rampart' on the 1850 map.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.5km north<br/>Here a ford used to cross the river on a long diagonal, reachin ght Arthington side somewhere near to inside of the bend in the river. No sign of it now.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.6km east<br/>This was probably used when the railway embankment was repaired recently.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.6km east<br/>From the construction of the railway - at least, that is what I assumed. The 1850 map has the caption 'Chapel Hill / Site of a Chapel' (the latter part in Gothic letters) here. There is a small ring on the map suggesting that the site might be in the field in the foreground.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.6km north<br/>Seen here from Castley Lane.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.6km north<br/>This is a term for a barn that is in a field rather than a farmyard. White House Farm is just behind it.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.6km north<br/>Apparently this is inscribed '1767, K F', although all that can be seen now is a possible '7'. It marks the boundary of Knaresborough Forest. The boundary is marked on the 1850 6” map with the comment 'Perambulated in 1767'.
©Humphrey Bolton
Dist:0.6km north<br/>with WHARFEDALE viaduct in the background.
©Steve Partridge

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