This article discusses the stately home Farnley Hall, Farnley, in North Yorkshire, near Otley, which is in West Yorkshire. See also Farnley Hall, a stately home in Old Farnley, near Leeds in West Yorkshire. A stately home is, strictly speaking, one of about 500 large properties built in England between the mid-16th century and the early part of the 20th century, as well as converted abbeys and other church property (after the Dissolution of the Monasteries). ... This article discusses the village of Farnley in North Yorkshire, England. ... North Yorkshire is a county within the region of Yorkshire and the Humber in England. ... West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England, corresponding roughly to the core of the West Riding of the traditional county of Yorkshire. ... This article discusses Farnley Hall, a stately home in Old Farnley, south west of Leeds, in West Yorkshire. ... A stately home is, strictly speaking, one of about 500 large properties built in England between the mid-16th century and the early part of the 20th century, as well as converted abbeys and other church property (after the Dissolution of the Monasteries). ... See also Farnley, in North Yorkshire, and New Farnley, nearby. ... Location within the British Isles. ... West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England, corresponding roughly to the core of the West Riding of the traditional county of Yorkshire. ...

Farnley Hall near Otley was built in the 1780s by John Carr, who also designed Harewood House. The property was owned by Thomas Fawkes, and a regular visitor was the Victorian artist and philosopher John Ruskin, who was taken with the enormous collection of paintings by J.M.W. Turner, a friend of the owner. Guy Fawkes was related to the Fawkes of Farnley. Harewood House is a stately home near Harewood, West Yorkshire, England. ... An artist is someone who employs creative talent to produce works of art. ... A philosopher is a person devoted to studying and producing results in philosophy. ... Upper: Steel-plate engraving of Ruskin as a young man, made circa 1845?, scanned from print made circa 1895. ... J. M. W. Turner, English landscape painter The fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, painted 1839. ... Guy Fawkes Guido Fawkes (April 13, 1570—January 31, 1606), most commonly called Guy Fawkes and sometimes rendered as Faukes, who also used the pseudonym John Johnson, was a member of a group of Roman Catholic conspirators who attempted to assassinate King James I and all the members of both...