Aldby Park

The house, replacing the original Tudor one, was built around 1725 by Jane Darley but it occupies an ancient site believed to be where Edwin of Northumbria was crowned King in 625 AD.

[1] The three storey house is built of brick with ashlar dressing and a slate roof, with a nine bay frontage.

It was Henry Darley's son Richard who asked his own son Thomas to send the Darley Arabian from Aleppo, where Thomas was a merchant.

Jane had married John Brewster, who changed his name to Brewster-Darley and built the present house around 1725.

He passed it on to his son George whilst continuing to live there.