Parlington Hall

The house therefore consisted of mixture of architectural styles and materials, and was set in landscaped gardens, but it was abandoned in 1905, after which incremental demolition took place until the late 1950s.

He was also a keen breeder and trainer of horses and with Sir Thomas Stapleton won the St Leger Stakes in 1778 with Hollandoise and the same race twenty years later with his home-bred colt Symmetry.

The death in February 1810 of Sir Thomas Gascoigne the last baronet, aged 65 came just a few months after his heir and only child Tom had pre-deceased him as a result of an accident whilst hunting.

He was responsible for building the "Dark Arch" in 1813, a still existent shallow, stone-lined road tunnel which allowed traffic to pass by on Parlington Lane without disturbing the occupants of the house.

commissioned the building of schools, almshouses and churches in the region, and made huge improvements to their estates and to the living conditions of their tenantry.

Isabella's particular interest was wood-turning and she installed at least three lathes in her own workshop at Parlington, as well as writing an authoritative book on the subject (called?).

His son Col. Frederick Richard Thomas Trench-Gascoigne was already established at another family residence, Lotherton Hall, to the east of the nearby village Aberford, which property he had inherited on the death of his Aunt Elizabeth.