1. Facilities

2. History

3. The Scott family

4. Access

5. References

6. External links

Wood Hall Hotel and Spa, Trip Lane, is an AA four-star, 44-room country house hotel with an AA two-rosette restaurant, about one mile from Linton, West Yorkshire.

Facilities

Also known as Wood Hall Country House Hotel, the house is set in 100 acres of woodland, at the end of a long private drive, 200 yards from the River Wharfe. It opened as a hotel in 1988 and was extended in 1992. It has facilities for helicopter landing.^[1] The hotel has a gym, indoor swimming pool and steam room.

History

The house was originally a country retreat of the Catholic Vavasour family, who had owned the estate since the early Middle Ages. An earlier house by the river was destroyed in the English Civil War. The present one was erected about 1750,^[2] but soon sold to the Scott family of Leeds, who inhabited it until 1935. It then became a boy's prep school, whose alumni included the Yorkshire and England cricketer Len Hutton.

The 190-acre estate was sold in 1966 to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Leeds as a pastoral and ecumenical centre, in which capacity it was visited by Mother Teresa.^[3] There is still a community of Carmelite nuns in a modern house near Wood Hall.^[4]

The Scott family

The Scott family bought Wood Hall in about 1790. It was advertised for sale in 1786 by the then owner Sir Walter Vavasour 6th Baronet.^[5] Edward Whatmore bought the house but he died the following year^[6] and soon after it was purchased by William Fenton Scott.

William Fenton Scott was born in 1746. His father was Henry Scott, a wealthy merchant and landowner who was the Mayor of Leeds.^[7] In 1779 he married Mary Kaye the sister of Sir John Lister Kaye. In 1890 when his father died he inherited the family estates and two years later he founded the Commercial Bank in Leeds. He died in 1813 and his eldest son William Lister Fenton Scott inherited Wood Hall. He advertised the estate for sale in 1818 but decided not to sell it. The advertisement is shown.

William Lister Fenton Scott (1781-1842) was born in 1781 in Leeds.^[8] In 1821 he married Charlotte Johnstone who was the daughter of Sir Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone.^[9] In 1825 he was elected as the Registrar of the West Riding and held this position for sixteen years. The couple had no children and when William died in 1842 he left Wood Hall to his wife Charlotte. She lived there until her death in 1860. During this time she took an interest in the welfare of the community and in 1850 she built the school at Sicklinghall at her own expense.^[10] When she died in 1860 her nephew Henry Richard Johnstone inherited the Scott estates including Wood Hall. In accordance with their wishes he added the name Scott to his title so that he became Henry Richard Johnstone Scott.

Henry Richard Johnstone Scott (1830-1912) was born in 1830.^[11] He was for some time in the 2nd Regiment of the West Yorkshire Militia.^[12] In 1866 he married Cressida Elizabeth Selby Lowndes who was the daughter of William Selby Lowndes of Whadden Hall in Buckinghamshire. The couple had four children, three sons and a daughter. Henry died in 1912 and in 1918 the family sold Wood Hall and it was bought by Arthur Crowther Watson a wealthy woollen manufacturer who lived in Morley.^[13]

Access

The hotel can be accessed from the First Leeds X99 route with services to Wetherby and Leeds. The hotel is around a mile away from the route.

References

External links

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