A good example of a typical English pub. Too many of which are being lost. Former uses were as the village smithy and a brew house which together form the original village core. C.1800. Nominated for inclusion on the Local List of Heritage Assets.

A Royal Observer Corps monitoring post. The site was built as part of an extensive network of posts designed to confirm and report hostile aircraft and nuclear attacks on the United Kingdom. It was opened during Feburary 1968 and closed in September ...

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A former World War Two military airfield, opened in 1942 and closed in 1954. Associated bomb store and dispersed camps (now demolished) have been identified on air photographs. The wartime airfield was an operational base for Royal Air Force Bomber C...

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Land purchased by George Middlewood 13 Feb 1855. Built by 1860. This large imposing house was a family home until 1919 then sold to Captain Dorrien Smith. Home to a series of senior military officers to 1976 now in private hands. From the 1970s to th...

Large Victorian Manor House. A fine building which replaced Pear Tree Farm as the "Manor". Donated by village benefactors, Misses Middlewood to York Diocese c1895 for use as a vicarage. Nominated for inclusion on the Local List of Heritage Assets.

Narrow ridge and furrow of probable Post Medieval date in the parish of Rufforth, seen as earthworks and cropmarks on air photographs.

A settlement at what is now Rufforth existed from Saxon times. An entry in the Domesday Book deals with the land ownership in Norman times. Modern names such as Southfield, Lowfield and Noddery’s (North) Field are derived from the medieval field syst...

A former World War Two military airfield, opened in 1942 and closed in 1954. Associated bomb store and dispersed camps (now demolished) have been identified on air photographs. The wartime airfield was an operational base for Royal Air Force Bomber C...