Manor Farm

Manor Farm was created by Sir Christopher Sykes in 1795.

The present farmhouse was built in 1843, near the site of an earlier farmstead.

From the 1890s to the early 1900s, the Manor Farm Tenants were Cook and Taylor. This photo dates from the 1890s.

In this photo from around 1900 of woodcutting using a steam engine, Enoch Braithwaite can just be seen across the road at the blacksmith’s shop.

A Mr. Cook subsequently took over sole tenancy, until 1910 when it was taken on by Henry Braithwaite.

When put up for sale by the Sledmere Estate in 1919, the details were as follows:

Farm House: Entrance, Two Sitting Rooms, Kitchen, Scullery, Dairy. Cellars, Front and Back Stairs, and Seven Bedrooms. Barn, Stable for 19 Horses, Granary, Cowhouses, Boxes, Sheds, and other Buildings. A set of Wold Farm Buildings detached and the following closes of Grass and Arable Land.

Tenants – Mr. Robert Henry Braithwaite

No. on Plan.	DESCRIPTION OR CULTIVATION.		Area (acres)
175	House and Homestead		1.732
192	Cow Wold Homestead		.297
162	South Wold Homestead		1.033
174	Homegarth		8.565
pt. 176	Paddock	Grass	1.893
188	Sheep Wash	do.	14.772
198	Vessey Pasture Dale	do.	17.214
194	Water Dale	do.	95.272
139	Long Dale	do.	27.697
163	Paddock	do.	3.500
169	Thixendale	do.	28.704
173	Botterels Nose	do.	10.612
186A	Town End Paddock	do.	.400
164		do.	8.996
			224.657
189		Arable	16.869
190		do.	26.448
191		do.	29.328
195	Cow Wold	do.	52.571
199		do.	24.946
200		do.	54.876
160		do.	28.814
159		do.	21.392
148		do.	18.679
138	Wandale	do.	28.050
161		do.	34.024
171	Botterels Nose	do.	13.540
168	The Rigg	do.	24.197
136		do.	35.972
172	Water Dale	Road	3.799
137	Martin Holm	do.	3.441
		A	641.783