Sledmere

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Sledmere is an estate village built around Sledmere House, the Georgian seat of the Sykes family since the 18th century, set in landscaped parkland. By the road stand two unusual monuments: a tall Eleanor-style cross turned into a war memorial, and the Waggoners’ Memorial, carved with scenes of Wolds farmhands who marched off to the First World War. Driffield is the nearest station, about 12km to the south-east.

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The Triton Inn

Pub near Sledmere

An 18th-century estate inn in Sledmere village, refurbished within its Victorian bones.

0.1 km NE

Sledmere House

House & garden near Sledmere

A Georgian mansion on the high Wolds, in parkland laid to a 1777 Capability Brown plan.

0.8 km SE

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Wharram Percy Medieval Village

Landmark near Thixendale

Grassy house platforms and the roofless church of a village abandoned around 1500, in a steep Wolds valley dug by archaeologists for forty years.

7.3 km W

St Michael's Church, Garton-on-the-Wolds

Church near Garton-on-the-Wolds

A plain Wolds church transformed inside by vivid Victorian wall paintings, a Sykes estate masterpiece.

7.4 km SE

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Scampston Hall

House & garden near Thornton-le-Dale

A walled garden replanted around 2000 to a Piet Oudolf design.

12.5 km NW

River Derwent

River

A slow Yorkshire river curving off the North York Moors round the Vale of Pickering to the Ouse.

14.2 km NW · North Yorkshire & East Riding of Yorkshire