Mystery over woman's name discovered etched in window at hall
A COUPLE restoring an historic North Yorkshire house have appealed for help as they research a name they found etched in a window. Naomi Ward said she and her husband Byron discovered the name ‘Francis Mary Adams’ in an upstairs bedroom after they began repairing Grade 1 listed Camblesforth Hall in Camblesforth, near Selby. “The hall was built in around 1690 and until fairly recently it was a working farm but in the last 10 years it has unfortunately fallen into a state of disrepair, to the extent that it was almost placed on the Heritage at Risk register,” she said. “It despe...
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