Show on map The Wesleyan Methodist Chapel opened in 1875, two years before the Primitive Methodist Chapel over the road.
It became the only Methodist chapel in 1962 and the final service here was in April 2006, led by the Rev Tim Thorpe, minister at Nottingham.
Interestingly the Google Street View images just happened to catch it while it was being converted into housing.
Show on map Boosbeck had two methodist chapels formed in the 1870s, with this Primitive Methodist Chapel dating from 1877.
By 1962 the two congregations had joined and became Boosbeck Methodist Chapel at the former Wesleyan chapel over the road. The Primitive chapel has since been converted into flats.
Show on map Park Methodist Church was design by W.J. Morley & Son of Bradford.
It was built in 1904, I don’t know the exact date it stopped being used as a church, but I recall it being converted into a pub in the 1990s.
It is now apartments.
Show on map This clock face dated 1813 is attached to a house in Castleton, its a bit of a mystery.
The only reference to 1813 I can find in association with the village is that a methodist chapel was built in that year. That was in turn replaced in 1871, so perhaps this is the orginal chapel or the clock face was just removed from it ?
Show on map This worn roadside inscription reads :-
“This enclosure was formerly used as a burial ground by The Society of Friends”
The single stone inside read ‘TW DECEM 18 1725’, a memorial to Thomas Watson of Horse House Farm who donated the land.
Show on map A small wooden gate at the roadside leads to an old Quaker cemetery.
The area is fairly large, but perhaps only a third currently has any head stones, property was owned in the area as early as 1658 although the ‘Castleton Meeting’ formed in 1719 and ran until 1924.
Although generally omitted from modern maps, ‘Friends Burial Grounds’ always used to be marked as this 1913 example shows.
Show on map As with most historic churches theres no shortage of interesting items inside to view, such as this Anglo-Saxon grave cover.
Sir William Gervase Beckett was MP for Whitby from 1906-1918. He became 1st Baronet Beckett, of Kirkdale Manor in 1921
The organ is from the early 20th century.
Show on map The core of St Gregorys Minster dates from the year 1060.
The sundial above the door (which oddly is no longer in the sun) dates from that rebuild and has an inscription in Old English.
Orm Gamal suna bohte Sanctus Gregorius Minster ðonne hit wæs æl tobrocan and tofalan and he hit let macan newan from grunde Christe and Sanctus Gregorius in Eadward dagum cyning and in Tosti dagum eorl.
Orm son of Gamal bought St. Gregory’s Minster when it was all ruined and collapsed and he caused it to be made new from the ground for Christ and St. Gregory in the days of Edward the King and in the days of Tosti the Earl
The sundial itself is inscribed :-
þis is dæges solmerca, æt ilcum tide.
This is the day’s sun-marker, at every tide.
and Hawarð me wrohte and Brand presbyter
And Haward wrought me and Brand priests.
This is of particular note as it’s from the Old Norse “solmerki” showing a link back to the Vikings.
Show on map After the series of lost buildings, you might be wondering why i’m posting an existing one ?
The sharp-eyed will notice the top of the tower doesn’t look like it does today, that’s because the 1866 / 1867 original caught fire on Easter Sunday 1902 and the roof burnt off. Once you know this it’s obvious that the current top is a totally different type of stone.
Show on map Legend has it that Ovin give up a position in the household of Queen Ethelrid to join the monastery at Lastingham in the 7th century and arrived carrying an axe and hatchet.
The current well surround is thought to be 18th Century, although the original well much older. Sadly all that remains is a stone recess with no trough or spout.