Farnley Hall (North Yorkshire)

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.

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.