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This website carries information about Parlington, the Hall and estate, and the Gascoigne family who lived in it, and much more.
It is the culmination of years of research, presently the whole structure of the site is being rebuilt to accommodate the latest technologies used on the web.
The estate was purchased in the mid sixteenth century by John Gascoigne of Lasingcroft [also termed Lasencroft], thereafter Barnbow Hall and also Parlington were each principal properties of the family, latterly Barnbow was given up leaving Parlington as the seat for the Gascoigne line.
The photograph shows the centre section of the hall in 1952 a few years before demolition. The photograph is one of a small collection from the National Monuments Record, by Herbert Felton.
The pages are in two styles, generally with two columns, but where necessary to support larger images a single column style is used.
The picture is earliest view of what existed at Parlington, taken from Samuel Buck's Yorkshire Sketchbook, circa 1719-20, date verified according to the diary of the noted historian Ralph Thoresby.
The facsimile copy of Samuel Buck's Sketchbook published by Wakefield Historical Publications is a unique record of views of Yorkshire Towns and country houses. The sketches form a detailed record of the Yorkshire of 290 years ago.
Sir Thomas the youngest child of Sir Edward Gascoigne, inherited the Baronetcy in 1762. Picture is from the painting by Pompeo Batoni circa 1779 when Sir Thomas was aged 34.
The last Baronet, Sir Thomas Gascoigne 8th Bart. Died 1810. He famously had the Triumphal Arch built in 1783.
The Triumphal Arch is the key relic from the Gascoigne era. Situated at the head of the main driveway, built to commemorate the victory of the American colonialists in the Revolutionary War.
The Light Arch and Dark Arch are two structures built on Parlington Lane, the former carries an estate roadway over the lane the latter is actually a tunnel beneath the hall garden, to conceal the lane from the house.
Without a doubt the property sales that attracted the most attention were firstly the 1938 sale, followed by the 1964 sale.
1938 Sale Read more...
1964 Sale Read more...
The five day effects sale was a huge affair with people wandering around the old mansion, the auctioneer offering lots in the rooms in which the objects were located.
1905 Sale Read more...
A verbatim transcript describing the village of Aberford around the end of the nineteenth century, by a villager from Aberford called Tomlinson, the interview was taken in the 1950's.[Pg1]
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From The Otley News (Friday March 20th 1868) Reading Room - This first and prosperous session was brought to a most successful close, on Thursday evening last...[Pg8]
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This is the 4th version of the website! The 1st version began in 2003 comprising a few pages, then by the 3rd version it had grown to an immense size, so large in fact, and all hand coded, that the idea of updating it has had many false starts. Each time a new design was attempted things conspired against completing it, the greatest hurdle has been to make it mobile friendly, so I hope this is fully compliant!
The old site is still available and will be retired once all the data has been included here!
Situated at the head of the tree lined driveway leading from the entrance off Cattle Lane in Aberford.
Situated off to the left of the driveway heading towards the Triumphal Arch.
Along Parlington Lane, after the worked out quarry passing from the Aberford end.
Continuing along Parlington Lane, after the Light Arch passing from the Aberford end.
The entrance portico removed to Lotherton Hall
