Scotton, Harrogate
[8] On 16 April 1881, the Knaresborough Post published a long description and history of the village, which at that time had approximately three hundred inhabitants, living in around seventy houses.The paper described it thus:[9] [The houses are] grouped or planted singly by the sides of the lane or village street, which is very narrow and crooked at all seasons of the year, and in the winter very dirty.[9] The newspaper's historian found that Scotton was an Anglo-Saxon word of uncertain meaning, and that, from the Domesday Book onward, the first three landowners in the village were Kings Thanes Giselbert Tyson, Scotone Ramechil, and Robert de Bruis or Bruce, all Normans.[9][16] [As of 1881] their mansion yet remains a building of considerable size, originally in the Elizabethan style of architecture, but has undergone so many alterations in more recent times that its true characteristics are lost.[9]According to the Knaresborough Post of 1881, the house of Dionis Baynebrigge in Scotton was the home of Guy Fawkes at some time during his teenage years - certainly in 1592 - and he is likely to have associated with local Catholic families, such as the Percys and Pulleyns.
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