Description

The following amendments should be made to the entry for the Memorial of the Nidd Ferry
Disaster in grounds to south of Newby Hall (Item 1/44):-

Lines 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 of the list description should be amended to read:-
'side of the ferry, panicked and tipped the boat over. Six men were drowned, includ-
-ing Sir Charles Slingsby, the heir to the estates in Knaresborough and Scriven, and
Edmund Robinson (both members of the family of Newby Hall), Christopher Warriner,
Newby Hall gardener, and his son James. Clare and Robert Vyner and Captain Henry Vyner
were saved. It was a dramatic event which had a considerable impact on the history of
estates in the area. The memorial originally stood in woodland to east of the kitchen
gardens.

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SE 36 NW NEWBY WITH MULWITH NEWBY PARK

1/44 Memorial of the Nidd
Ferry Disaster in grounds
to south of Newby Hall

GV II

Memorial. c1869 possibly using earlier architectural remains. Ashlar and
gritstone. Overall height approximately 3 metres. The square base has
round-arched recess on each side. Clustered Corinthian columns above,
strange grape decoration to inner columns. Ball and cushion finials to top.
4 mushroom-shaped finials flank the columns. The memorial has no obvious
representation of the incident it is said to commemorate. On February 4th
1869 the York and Ainsty Hunt reached the banks of the River Ure which was
swollen after heavy rain. Several members boarded the ferry to east of the
kitchen garden but one of the horses became tangled in the chains on the
side of the ferry, panicked and tipped the boat over. Six men were drowned,
including Sir Charles Slingsby, the heir to the estates in Knaresborough and
Scriven, Captain Henry Vyner and Edmund Robinson - members of the family of
Newby Hall. Clare and Robert Vyner were saved. It was a dramatic event
which had a considerable impact on the history of estates in the area. The
memorial originally stood in woodland to east of the kitchen gardens.

Listing NGR: SE3474767245

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26508119

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