Askrigg, Cross 1914
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Photo of Askrigg, Cross 1914

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In front of St Oswald's Church, the old market cross and bullring provide a central point for the delightful village of Askrigg. The beauty of the area was well known to Turner and Wordsworth, who were inspired by the waterfalls, Mill Gill and Whitfield. From 1908 the local corn mill produced electricity for the village using water power. The railway reached Askrigg in 1877, and a year later it was extended to Hawes and (via the Midland line) to Carlisle. Askrigg's Elizabethan Old Hall, centre, burnt down in 1935. The TV series All Creatures Great and Small was filmed here, which put the village back on the tourist trail in the 1970s.

A Selection of Memories from Askrigg

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After Thomas Metcalfe who owned Nappa Hall had died it was inherited by the Weddells. The Weddells let Nappa Hall to John Winn christened 1738 Thornton Steward and his wife Elizabeth I'anson (9th generation decendant of Captain John I'anson who fought at Bosworth with Henry Tudor and settled in Hauxwell). Elizabeth's brother Christopher I'anson lived in Nappa Mill until he died 1802. John and Elizabeth's only son George ...see more
Winnville opposite Askrigg Post Office was the residence of George Winn and his wife Elizabeth. George was born in 1808 in Nappa Hall Askrigg along with his brothers Richard Metcalfe Winn and John Winn who became the vicar of St Andrews Church in Aysgarth. George followed the family tradition and became a solicitor. His son William Edmund Metcalfe Winn was born in Winnville in 1845 and followed his father and became a ...see more