Show on mapThe wonderful doorway arch shaped like horseshoe can only be a Blacksmiths, built in 1858 as the inscription tells us and still used for that purpose into the 1960’s
John Turton was a physician to ‘mad’ George III, he bought the manor of Roxby but died in without children, the estate passed to the youngest son of Rev William Peters (chaplain to the Prince Regent) who assumed the Turton name and coat of arms.
Turton lived at Larpool Hall, near Whitby.
Lovely! I like the postbox in the wall. I don’t see any new ones being installed, so we need to keep the ones we have.
So many Royal connections in the North-East…! You never know who your neighbour might be!!!
There’s something very similar at Upsall, North of Thirsk. I believe there’s a further one somewhere as well.
The Turton family of Kildale Hall.
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