18-520: Birch Hall Inn is a public house founded around 1860 in Beck Hole in the North York Moors , England. It is designated as a Grade II listed building . It is noted for its small bars and shop, and interior, and is popular with hiking tourists on holiday in the area. There is documentary evidence of a building on the site dating to at least the 17th century. The original construction of
36-539: A grade II listed building. A deviation of the line was built in 1865 to avoid the use of a rope-hauled inclined plane ; a short section of the replaced line from Grosmont to Beck Hole remained open as the Beck Hole branch. This was used as a freight-only line delivering coal to the hamlet of Beck Hole, and forwarding out stone from Lease Rigg, and for a time, ironstone from the surrounding quarries and mines. Passenger services ceased on 1 July 1865. From 1908 to 1914
54-483: A single farmstead. A fulling mill was in operation at the river bank around this period. The 'Bulls Head' public house was established around 1770, in a house built c. 1677 . The building was renamed the 'Lord Nelson' in 1801, and rebuilt around 1850. It closed as a public house in 1940. One of the key landmarks in Bechole is the single Scots Pine within the garden of Firtree house. The tree date back to
72-565: Is Grade II listed, and the interior, relatively unchanged since the 1930s is listed in CAMRA 's National Inventory of Historic Pub Interiors . Beck Hole Beck Hole is a small valley village in the former Borough of Scarborough , North Yorkshire , England . The village lies within the Goathland civil parish and the North York Moors national park. Beck Hole is located at approximately 70 m (230 ft) above sea level in
90-529: The North York Moors , in the valley of the Murk Esk River, a tributary of the River Esk . The village is approximately 1.25 miles (2 km) roughly north-west of Goathland and within the same civil parish. It is accessed by a road with very steep gradients on either side of the village. The North Yorkshire Moors Railway passes the village close by to the north. The majority of the structures in
108-640: The North Yorkshire Moors on part of the original Whitby and Pickering Railway line. Although it was possible to travel to Beckhole in 1835, the station was opened in 1836, and closed to passengers permanently in 1914. Beckhole closed completely in 1951. The first part of the Whitby and Pickering Railway had extended to Tunnel Inn (Grosmont) and Beck Hole by 1835. This was a special arrangement to carry passengers from Whitby. A permanent station opened in 1836 as Beckholes , although initially it
126-664: The apple trees.. In 2009 the Goathland School celebrated its Bi-centenary. The BHWF decided to mark the occasion by planting an apple orchard on land in Beckhole - kindly provided by the Ainley family, formerly of Firs Farm. With help from The Tree Council, donations from Goathland Post Office, the North York Moors National Park and collection boxes at The Birch Hall Inn money was raised to prepare
144-565: The building, originally used as a shop with tenements above for industrial workers. The painter Algernon Newton created a pub sign for the inn during his stay in Beck Hole in the 1940s. The main bar 'Big Bar' is within one of the original cottages, a second bar, the 'Little Bar' was added after the Second World War in the Victorian three-storey extension. A very small shop in the building sells sweets and postcards. The building
162-417: The construction of the house where it was said that houses with a Scots pine where royalest and faithful. At the time of planting two trees resided until before the 1900s the second was struck with lightning and burnt down. The Whitby and Pickering Railway was opened in 1836, with the incline from Beckhole to Goathland worked as a rope hauled cable railway . A railway station was established. The incline
180-476: The current building is thought date to the mid or late 18th century, consisting of a building of two single storey cottages. Contemporary with the arrival of the Whitby to Pickering Railway and the establishment of the Whitby Iron Company in Beck Hole , in the mid 19th century, the landlords, Ralph and Mary Dowson added a second floor to the original cottages, and added a three-storey extension to
198-554: The orchard and plant 20 different heritage apple trees, each of which has been adopted by a child from Goathland School. Trees were planted on 1 March 2009 and once they were established the children came down to 'meet' their trees on 24 April. It's just on the side of the Rail Trail before the Ellerbeck Footbridge. Beckhole railway station Beckhole railway station was a railway station at Beck Hole in
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#1732791996250216-544: The outskirts of the village are further historic buildings: the G.T. Andrews designed former railway building, 'Incline Cottage'; and 'Lins' a 17th-century longhouse. The origins of Beck Hole date to the Middle Ages; it was set within the Forest of Pickering, which began to be cleared in the 13th century. The first records referencing the village, originally known as Amerholm , date to the late 16th century, and mention
234-524: The village are listed, including several 18th century sandstone buildings: the Birch Hall Inn (cottages and with 19th century extension), Fir Tree farmhouse, Brookwood farmhouse (outbuildings to Fir Tree farm, now dwellings), 'The White House', and 'Old Woodbine'. Also listed are the 19th century stone bridge over the Ellerbeck, and the 19th century former public house, the 'Lord Nelson'. On
252-415: The village in the decade after the Second World War . Beckhole Woodland and Heritage Foundation was formed by residents of Beckhole in 2006 in order to preserve and protect the ancient woodland of the valley and interpret the wealth of local heritage. In Victorian times Beckhole was famous for its many orchards. Visitors would come from miles around to enjoy the walks & waterfalls and take tea beneath
270-456: Was expanded and gained a licence. The operation was unsuccessful, and short-lived, hampered by a fault in one of the furnaces, and landslips at a mine. The blast furnaces ceased operation in 1864, and the works were put up for sale in 1876, and were sold in 1888, being demolished in the following years. The worker's terrace also demolished. The village was connected to Egton by a main road after 1868. Mains electricity and mains water reached
288-456: Was not advertised in literature as a destination, merely the point at which horses were detached so that the carriage could be sent up the incline . It later received station status, though in the early days of railway building, tickets were bought generally from local inns, rather than from the station itself. By 1847, when the York and North Midland Railway had taken over the line, steam working
306-404: Was replaced by a deviation in 1865, part of the line remained in use as a branch to Beck Hole until it closed in 1951. In the late 1850s the Whitby Iron Company was formed and began extraction of iron stone around Beckhole; two blast furnaces were built which began production of iron in 1860. At around the same time a row of 33 cottages was built for industrial workers, and the Birch Hall Inn
324-501: Was used throughout to Whitby, supplanting horse-power all along the line. This necessitated building a shed at Beckhole, for the use of steam engines, which, once they had been lowered down the incline, generally stayed operating between Whitby and Beckhole. The single track engine shed had a water tank, and was located to the immediate north of what were two railway cottages designed by George Townsend Andrews . These two cottages were later combined into one dwelling as Incline Cottage ,
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