Category: Kilburn
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Kilburn’s White Horse
Everyone assumes the horse is ancient. Some pagan relic, carved by shadowy ancestors for reasons lost to the mists of time. Wrong, as it happens. The Kilburn horse was the work of one Thomas Taylor, a local boy who left for London, made his fortune, and came home with an idea instead of sense. He…
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Hood Grange
Behind this somewhat sad stone farmhouse lies eight centuries of quiet drama. A hermitage stood here before 1138, when monks moved in under Roger de Mowbray’s patronage. Cistercians took the place over, then shuffled off to Old Byland after five years, then on to Byland Abbey proper. Augustinian canons from nearby Newburgh Priory moved into…