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Regency Place, RIPON, HG4 5FD

View eastward, towards Melmerby: ex-NER Melmerby - Masham branch. The station and branch closed to passengers 1/1/31, but remained open for goods until 11/11/63.

New properties under construction at West Tanfield. The late Ben Brooksbank photographed the station building back in 1995 and that doesn't appear to have changed much, but beyond, on what originally seems to have been a small siding and possible goods shed [according to old maps], there is now new housing development.

Opened in 1875 by the North Eastern Railway on the short Melmerby-Masham branch (off the Leeds-Harrogate-Northallerton line), this station closed to passengers in 1931, long before Dr. Beeching. It continued for goods until 1963. Forecourt.

Now the Regency Place development.

Now the Regency Place development.

Now the Regency Place development.

Now used as meeting rooms, this former Wesleyan chapel in Mowbray Terrace was replaced by the adjacent church Image and Image Built in the early 19th century of squared, coursed rubble stone with ashlar dressings, under a stone slate roof. Inside is a panelled gallery supported by cast-iron Doric columns. Listed, grade II, with details at: https://historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1293821 West Tanfield is a village in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, some 5½ miles northwest of Ripon. The village is sited on the north bank of the Rive Ure, astride the A6108 road from Ripon to Leyburn. The village name comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'tana feld', which mean "open land where young shoots grow" and is referred to in the Domesday Book. West Tanfield is home to the Marmion Tower, a 15th century gatehouse to the demolished manor house.

The building in the centre of the photograph is the Methodist Church.

West Tanfield Methodist Church, Mowbray Terrace, was built in the early 20th century, replacing the former chapel Image Constructed of squared, coursed rubble stone with ashlar dressings under a slate roof. West Tanfield is a village in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, some 5½ miles northwest of Ripon. The village is sited on the north bank of the Rive Ure, astride the A6108 road from Ripon to Leyburn. The village name comes from the Anglo-Saxon 'tana feld', which mean "open land where young shoots grow" and is referred to in the Domesday Book. West Tanfield is home to the Marmion Tower, a 15th century gatehouse to the demolished manor house.