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Photograph courtesy of Charles Wyvill
Home of the Wyvill family Constable
Burton Hall is located 3 miles east of Leyburn in North Yorkshire.
Designed by John Carr of York the present hall dates from 1768 and was
built on the site of an earlier Elizabethan structure. Sir Marmaduke
Wyvill (1692-1754), 6th Baronet, was a prominent early breeder whose
stock included such notable horses as the
Belgrade Turk,
Volunteer and the
famous Wyvill's
Roan Mare - possibly the queenpin of
Family 6. |