Londesborough Hall

The Londesborough estate belonged, in the 16th and early 17th century, to the Clifford family, the Earls of Cumberland.

The original house was built by George Clifford, 3rd Earl of Cumberland, in 1589, created in the Elizabethan style.

Richard Boyle, 3rd Earl of Burlington, who was the principal patron of the Palladian movement in England, and himself a noted architect, had alterations made to Londesborough, undertaken by William Kent in the 1720s.

[3] In 1819, the 6th Duke of Devonshire, who had a superfluity of grand homes, a large running debt inherited from his father, and many other expensive interests to pay for, including his reconstruction of Chatsworth House, had Londesbrough demolished.

A private railway station (Londesborough Park) was built on the adjacent York to Beverley line for Hudson to use.