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On paper Snape Castle Mews may well sound like countless other homes – beautifully renovated, in a lovely village location with wonderful gardens…

LOOKING BACK Thorp Perrow, near Bedale, which was the scene of a great wedding between two of the North-Easts leading shipping families 100 years ago this week From the Darlington & Stockton Times of June 25, 1921 A MARRIAGE made in shipping heaven was celebrated in Bedale 100 years ago when Margarita Gray, the fourth daughter of Sir William Cresswell Gray of Thorp Perrow, married Major William Ropner, of West Hartlepool. “The festivity of the occasion was advertised by the stream of moto...

WEVE been on a flight of fancy chronicling the areas dovecotes recently, and now, thanks to Ian Hillary, from Hurworth, were able to link the wife who survived Henry VIII with a North Yorkshire pigeon pie. Now lockdown has eased, Ian has been out into North Yorkshire to check on some dovecotes which we haven’t yet mentioned in our tour of these curious structures. Dovecotes, of course, were important in the days before refrigerators as they proved a fresh source of eggs and meat. They b...

DOVECOTES have a way of flying us back through time, and connecting us to one of the greatest royal stories of all time and the composition of some of the most romantic poems in the English language. In the days before refrigerators, dovecotes were important as they proved a regular source of fresh eggs and meat. They became fashionable accessories to a country estate around 1700, although the older, more rustic, are centuries older than that, and most of the building of dovecotes in our ar...