Langcliffe - Yorkshire Dales National Park

Figure 28: Langcliffe Hall, withstable block to the left (photo ©Gaby Rose, YNDPA, 2009)1112Slater, Michael J (2002) ‘SirIsaac Newton and theLangcliffe Mathematicians’,http://www.langcliffe.net/Sir%20Isaac%20 Newton.html.Slater, Mary (2001) ‘This OldHouse’,http://www.langcliffe.net/This%20Old%20House.html.There is a tradition that Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) stayed atLangcliffe Hall when it was the home of William Dawson (1676-1762),and an arbour was specifically made for him in the orchard for meditation.While there is no evidence for this occurrence, the possibility remains,especially with Giggleswick School producing many talentedmathematicians at that time, including Dawson, who went to CambridgeUniversity where Newton was resident from 1661 to 1696 11 .Manor Farm house and cottage (figure 29), grade II listed – Manor name of late nineteenth or early twentieth century former wealthy farmhouse dated 1678 grouped with nowconvertedoutbuildings (not listed) around yard to thewest two-storey building in slobbered squared and coursedrubble, stone dressings and slate roof; interior hasinglenook fireplace, exposed beams with painteddecorations, and carved pendant kingposts in roof space after 1718 divided into house and cottage with extensionto the west in early to mid-nineteenth century, east elevation insertedwith sash windows to house, and doors to house andcottage, and some rebuilding to the south-east corner another extension to the west probably in late nineteenthor early twentieth century 12 29