The former site of a Pre-War airfield and World War Two military airfield, now disused. It was a civilian aerodrome built in 1936. It formed an RAF airfield 1939-45, where Halifax bombers were overhauled and repaired. The wartime station was known as...

The former site of a Pre-War airfield and World War Two military airfield. The civilian aerodrome was built in 1936. It formed an Royal Air Force airfield 1939-45, where Halifax bombers were overhauled and repaired. The wartime station was known as C...

House. Built c1830 for John Roper (wine merchant). Gault brick with painted stone dressings. Hipped slate roof. Exterior: main block symmetrical, of 2 storeys and 3 bays.

An extensive cremation and inhumation cemetery was discovered in the late 17th and early 18th centuries in clay pits RCHME Vol 1, p73.

A Victorian pyschiatric hospital, then termed a 'pauper lunatic asylum' designed by Scott and Moffatt, opened in 1847. it was extended with additional wings by J B and William Atkinson in 1850. A chapel was added in 1873, a recreation hall in 1876, f...

A chapel built for the use of patients in the North Riding Asylum by architects Gould & Fisher, described in The British Architect journal 1874 as "A handsome and convenient chapel". Damaged during WW2, some fittings and the East window were replaced...

Bomb crater associated with the 1942 Baedecker Raid on York in April 1942

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Constructed as a gentleman’s residence originally called Acomb Park House. At one time it was the BIG house in Acomb. Subsequently used as a nursing home. The main house was demolished in c.2008 by York Housing Association. The coach house remains, a...