SLINGSBY AND SLINGSBY CASTLE
By Arthur St. Clair Brooke, M.A.
CONTENTS
Introduction
The Making of Slingsby, and Slingsby in Domesday
Some Lords of Slingsby
The Wyvilles
The Castle
The Church and Rectors
Some Changes and Survivals
Appendices
Chapter 1 Excerpt
SLINGSBY is one of a number of villages situated along the southern
edge of the vale of Pickering, in the north-riding of Yorkshire and
the wapentake of Ryedale. Pickering vale opens on the east towards
the sea, and is encircled in other directions by three ranges of
hills: (1) The Tabular hills on the north; (2) the Hambleton hills
on the west; (3) the Howardian hills on the south. The Tabular
hills have their name from their nearly table-like summits. They
extend from the coast at Scarboro' westward to Black Hambleton
(1309 feet), a tract of country which Arthur Young speaks of as
"not having the epithet "black" given to it for nothing, for it is
a continual range of black moors." At this point the high ground
curves round to the south, forming the lofty plateau of the
Hambleton hills--a name somewhat fancifully derived by Eugene Aram
in his projected lexicon from ""hemel"" and ""don,"" signifying the
"heavenly mountain"; and given, he adds, to these hills, "not from
their elevation, but from their figure to the eye, which is that of
half a globe with the convexity upwards." The Howardian hills, the
least elevated of the three ranges, extend from Gilling to Malton,
and are called after the family of Howard, whose seat is in their
neighbourhood. They seem to have been without a name until Marshall
in his "Rural Economy of Yorkshire," written in 1796, so christened
them (vol. i p. 12).
A spur of the Hambleton range, called Cauklass Bank, runs into the
western portion of the vale of Pickering, dividing it in this part
into Ryedale, on the north, called after the river Rye; and Mowbray
vale on the south, called after the famous house of Mowbray. The
vale of Mowbray, however, is not confined to this part of the vale
of Pickering, but extends through the gap, which at Gilling and
Coxwold divides the Hambleton from the Howardian hills into the
north-eastern portion of the vale of York, as far north as the
border of Cleveland; for the Mowbrays had possessions in all this
region, their chief seat being at Tresch ("i.e." Thirsk), where
they had a castle.
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