We acknowledge generous help from a number of people and we would like to thank in particular those who have contributed to the text. 

Our thanks go also to those people who have advised, encouraged and researched on our behalf: Ewan Blackledge, David Butterworth, Mark Clook, Sara Craig, Paul and Sue Elm, Roy Linfield, Mary Lorigan, Lindsay McLane, Charity Norman, Caroline O’Neill, Michael Perry, Frank Rickards,  Fr Alberic Stacpoole. 

Grateful thanks for financial contributions: The Local Heritage Initiative Fund, David and Helen Daniel, Ian Henley, Roy and June Linfield, Paddy and Jane Sweeney, Michael Spencer, Geoffrey and Joan Waters, the Oswaldkirk Parish Meeting and the Oswaldkirk Pantomime Committee. 

The Local Heritage Initiative is a partnership between the Heritage Lottery Fund, Nationwide Building Society and the Countryside Agency.

Our sources include

The Borthwick Institute; County Records Office, Northallerton; Eden Camp Archive; Guardian Newspapers London; Malton Library; North Yorkshire National Park;  Sites, Monuments and Records, County Hall, Northallerton; Yorkshire Evening Press and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust. 

References used

A History of Helmsley, Rievaulx and district by the members of the Helmsley and area group of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, edited by J.McDonnell.

The Stonegate Press.

Ampleforth Country, First Edition, by a group of boys of Ampleforth College.

The Herald Printing Works, Coney St., York.

Yorkshire Past and Present; Gazetteer of the County of York.

Baines, Edward. Published at the Leeds Mercury, 1823.

History and Directory of North Yorkshire, 1890. Bulmer.

Malton Messenger, 1908.

Yorkshire Gazette, 1908.

Yorkshire Post, 1908.

The Christian Heritage of Ryedale. Published by the Ryedale Christian Council.

Ryedale and North Yorkshire Antiquities; Frank, G.,1888. Samson Brothers, York.

Vallis Eboracensis, comprising  the History and Antiquities of Easingwold and its neighbourhood; Gill, Thomas London 1852.

Saving Yorkshire’s Manors and Halls; Hanson, H.,1986 Country Life, 180 (25th Sept) 1952

The Domesday Book, England’s Heritage Then and Now,

Hinde, T.,ed.,1985 Guild Publishing.

Illustrated Particulars with Plans and Conditions of Sale of The Oswaldkirk Estate. (Leeds) Jackson, Stops and Staff, 1933.

Memories of Bygone Oswaldkirk, by Joan Masterman.

Oswaldkirk Turnpike Trust 1768 - 1881;  Perry, J.,1977

North Yorkshire County Record Office Publications No.12.

North Yorkshire County Council, Northallerton, North Yorkshire.

The Ryedale Story. A Yorkshire Countryside Handbook. 2nd. Edition; Rushton, J.,1986 Ryedale District Council, N.Yorks.

The Manor of Oswaldkirk and Adjoining Properties;   Sumner Marriner, J., undated belonging to Col. J. M. Benson. Unpublished Report. (Leeds)

Victoria County History, North Riding  Vol. 2

Yorkshire The North Riding, by Nikolaus Pevsner published by Penguin Books 1966

Photographs.  Despite our best efforts to trace the owners of some of the prints we have been unsuccessful with a few. Those who have lent theirs include  Dorothy Garbutt, David Goodman, Helen Goodman, David Lee, Glyn  Roberts, Gareth Roberts, Harry Simmonds, Robert Wainwright, Geoff Walker and Stephen Wikeley. We would also like to thank the  Vicar and Churchwardens of Helmsley for the use of the painting of Sproxton Church and Martin Hogarth for the use of his painting of Broad Farm.

Compiled by

Selwyn Collinson, Flora Daly, Philip Entwistle, David Goodman, (also picture editing and word processing),

Alison Hampshire, Sandy Mackenzie-Smith, Babs Miller Pratt.

 Convener and Secretary - Helen Goodman.

Treasurer - Harry Simmonds. 

Editor - Philip Entwistle.

Phillip Entwistle.

Flora Daly.

Sandy Mackenzie-Smith.

Helen Goodman.

Alison Hampshire.

Published by the Oswaldkirk Parish History Group October 2002.