Spofforth, North Yorkshire
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Spofforth with Stockeld is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located about 3 miles north west of Wetherby and 5 miles south of Harrogate.
The ruins of Spofforth Castle[1][2], which date from the thirteenth century, are close to the centre of the village.
Stockeld Park, south of the village, is a stone-built eighteenth century Palladian villa[3][4].
Blind Jack Metcalf, the eighteenth century road builder, lived in Spofforth in his later years and is buried in Spofforth Churchyard.
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