Ravenscar, Scarborough, N Yorkshire - Raven Hall Hotel - multiview postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Raven Hall Hotel, Ravenscar, Scarborough, North Yorkshire - multiview: The Hotel / Bathing Pool / Golf Course / Battlements
• Publisher:  ETW Dennis
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Ravenscar, known as Peak or The Peak,^[1] until the early 20th century is a coastal village in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England, approximately 10 miles (16 km) north of Scarborough. It is within the civil parish of Staintondale and the North York Moors National Park.

The 110-mile (180 km) Cleveland Way National Trail passes through Ravenscar which is also the eastern terminus of the Lyke Wake Walk. The official end of the walk is at a point where the path meets the coast road.

According to the 2001 UK census, Staintondale parish (including Staintondale as well as Ravenscar) had a population of 319.^[2]

The Raven Hall Hotel, built in 1774 on the site of Peak House, was once owned by Dr. Francis Willis, physician to King George III, and it is rumoured, without evidence, that King George stayed there during his treatment.^[3]

To the north of the village is the old Peak alum works,^[4] now a National Trust site, but once an important part of the dyeing industry.

Ravenscar is also the location of a late 4th-century Roman signal station, part of a chain that extended along the Yorkshire coast.^[3]

At the edge of the village is a disused windmill, Peak Mill, which dates from 1858.^[5]

At the turn of the 19th–20th century, plans were made to turn the village into a holiday resort to rival nearby Scarborough. Roads were laid out, some houses were built and sewers were laid. Ravenscar never achieved popularity and the development was left unfinished mainly due to the long trek reach the rocky beach.^[3][6]

The village was served by Ravenscar railway station between 1885 and 1965.

In 1540, a farm known as Peak House owned by the Beswick family occupied the site of a 5th century Roman fort. In 1774 Raven Hall was built on the site for Captain William Childs of London, a captain in the King's Regiment of Light Dragoons, who came to Yorkshire with the army and became the owner of the Alum Works at Ravenscar. On his death in 1829 the hall passed to his daughter Ann Willis, whose family (headed by Dr Francis Willis) had become wealthy from treating George III and other royalty for their medical conditions. Ann's son, the eccentric Rev Dr Richard Willis, built the gardens and battlements which surround the house. In 1845 the property passed into the hands of William Hammond of London.

Hammond became a prominent local benefactor, building the village church and the windmill. He became a director of the Scarborough to Whitby railway line, insisting that it passed through his property via a tunnel and that Ravenscar should have a station. On his widow's death in 1890 the estate was sold to the Peak Estate Company for development as a holiday resort. The house was extended and opened as a hotel in 1895 and its golf course opened in 1898. It was sold by auction in 1911 after the company went bankrupt and after several changes of ownership and use as a billet in wartime, was acquired by the present owners, who are associated with Classic Hotels.^[7]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=yorkshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted