Entries for the tag ‘Farnley Hall’
📌 Stately home on the Wharfe near Otley, built in Elizabethan times by the Danbys, but the manor is in Domesday Book as Fernelei. 
- 29 December 1759: The painter Julius Caesar Ibbetson is born at Farnley Moor (Leeds) in a way that determines his given names
- 14 October 1769: The poet Thomas Gray travels from Skipton to Otley
- 19 October 1816: Serenaded by the military, decorated barges leave Leeds for Liverpool to celebrate the completion, after almost 50 years, of the canal uniting east and west
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