Cowesby

Cowesby is a village and civil parish in the former Hambleton District of North Yorkshire, England.At the time of the Norman invasion the lands were recorded as belonging to Edwin, Earl of Mercia, but were ceded soon afterwards to King William I, though the manor was in the hands of Hugh, son of Baldric.[7] Cowesby Hall sits around half-a-mile from the centre of the village, the large Tudor-style country house sits prominently atop a hill in the centre of its 1,300 acre estate and was erected in 1832 from the designs of Anthony Salvin, the hall and the majority of its land falls within the North York Moors National Park.[8] By the early 1800s the manor was under ownership of George Lloyd, Esq, who built the present hall between 1828 and 1832, he died in 1844 and left the estate to his eldest son William, whose son, also called William was Lord of the Manor until the 1940s, when the hall and estate was purchased by Sir John Watson Cameron, the son of Watson Cameron of Camerons Brewery, it remained in ownership of the Camerons until 1999, when it was purchased by Robert Adair, a Yorkshire-based oil tycoon and his wife Lucy, a solicitor, the Adair's later divorced, which resulted in the £10m sale of The Cowesby Hall Estate in 2009 to a member of the billionaire Morrisons family, the sale included the main house, several estate cottages in the adjoining village, two working farms and 1,298 acres of land, including woodland, parkland, farmland and moorland.The 24,000 square foot, 10-bedroom manor house and its sprawling gardens have undergone an extensive renovation and restoration programme by its current owners, the hall sits prominently atop a hill and is sheltered on the north and east facade, whilst the south and west facade enjoy expansive and far reaching views over the Hambleton Hills.