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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.
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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.
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, 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. There is still a community of Carmelite nuns in a modern house near Wood Hall.