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The footpath goes round the northern edge of Brampton Plantation and emerges onto a tarmac The Route road which has been given ‘permitted footpath’ status by Newby Hall Estates. After Brampton Hall entrance is Mulwith where Walk down the lane past a new farmhouse. Near a bend to the Mary Ward was born in 1585. She was a Catholic, south was the site of dog kennels which give the walk its name. Mary Ward –a who founded religious institutions worldwide. One religious icon Near here children used an embankment for sledging. It had early of these established the Bar Convent in York in Foster family cutting corn with a origins and was the site of an encampment by General Wade’s 1686. The house burned down in her childhood. binder at Broom Close Farm army en-route to fight at Culloden in 1745. The driveway leads north-west to Mulwith Wood. Here, After the wood, on the left across the field, is Christ the Consoler The original carriageway to Brampton Hall continued straight a bridleway, which is not on the route, and a dead end, goes church. It was built in the 1870s by Lady Vyner, of Newby Hall, as ahead at the bend. The diverted footpath is 100 metres south to west to the River Ure. In 1869, six people drowned when the a memorial to her son, who was held ransom by brigands in the right across fields. This area has York and Ainsty Hunt tried to cross the flooded river by ferry. Greece and killed. produced archaeological finds, including a R i p At the end of the drive is the entrance to Newby Hall, an 18th quern stone used for milling grain, Roman o n century country house built by Sir Christopher Wren with remains and Stone Age flints. A Roman additions by Robert Adam. fort was discovered south of the river Flint worked arrow SKELTON-ON-URE ) A short walk brings you to Skelton-on-Ure. Walk north to

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Ahead of you, across fields, south of trees, 7 A you east across two fields to a minor road. Cross the is Brampton Hall, which includes fragments of a once impressive N road and continue uphill across fields. Before you reach Tudor Manor House. The Hall is private. It was the home of 6 Cottage Lane, Skelton Windmill can be the Tancreds, who suffered persecution as Catholics in 5 seen to the north. Turn right and Elizabethan . In 1579 they were arrested and the Newby Hall and Gardens follow the lane back Hall was confiscated. to Langthorpe. The Tancreds remained Catholics and regained some of Skelton Road their property. William Weddle, of Newby Hall, bought Whin Covert Brampton Hall in 1776, and demolished most of it. e Mulwith Broom Langthorp Key Wood The Dog Kennel Lane Circuit Sir Richard’s Close 1 Farm Start of Walk Wood 2 Dog Kennel 4 1 Site of Dog Kennels Brampton Lane Plantation 2 General Wade’s encampment 3 3 Brampton Hall (Private, no access) 4 Mulwith River Ure 5 Newby Hall and Gardens Entrance 1km 6 Christ the Consoler Church The original Brampton Hall 7 Black Lion public house