Newburgh Priory, Thirsk, England

The following is from the English Heritage Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest.

Garden, pleasure grounds and park with 17th-century or earlier origins, laid out around 1730-40 for the fourth Viscount Fauconberg and modified probably in the later 18th and the 19th century.

LOCATION, AREA, BOUNDARIES, LANDFORM, SETTING

Newburgh Priory lies about 1 kilometre south-east of Coxwold in a rural and agricultural area. The roughly 450 hectare site is on rolling land which rises to the east and includes the valley of Heron Lye Gill which runs approximately north/south in the eastern part of the site. The west boundary is formed by the Coxwold to Oulston road for most of its length apart from a section immediately west of the Hall which extends west beyond this. The south boundary is formed by the Oulston to Yearsley road. The roadside boundaries are largely walled while remaining boundaries are largely fenced.

REFERENCES Used by English Heritage

Country Life, 18 (11 November 1905), pp 666-76; 155 (28 February 1974), pp 426-9; (7 March 1974), pp 482-5; (14 March 1974), pp 574-7

The Victoria History of the County of Yorkshire North Riding (1923), pp 8-11

N Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire The North Riding (1966), pp 263-5

J Harris, The Artist and the Country House (1979), p 133

Maps [all in Newburgh Priory Muniments, North Yorks Record Office]

Estate Map, 1605

Estate Map, 1722 [showing park and wider estate]

Estate Map, 1722 [showing gardens and park]

J Haynes, Estate Map, 1744

OS Maps

OS 6" to 1 mile: 1st edition surveyed 1853-4, published 1856; 2nd edition revised 1909-10, published 1913
 

Description written: October 1998

Edited: October 1999