Castle Howard railway station Castle Howard railway station Castle Howard railway station was a minor railway station serving the village of Welburn and the stately home at Castle Howard in North Yorkshire, England. On the York to Scarborough Line it was opened on 5 July 1845 by the York and North Midland Railway. The architect was George Townsend Andrews. It closed to passenger traffic on 22 September 1930 but continued to be staffed until the 1950s for small volumes of freight and parcels. The station was often used by the aristocracy, notably Queen Victoria when she visited Castle Howard with Prince Albert as a
Howard County Conservancy teach children about environmental threats to the owl species. A historic barn from Mt. Joy in Ellicott City has been relocated to the site. Howard County Conservancy The Howard County Conservancy is a non-profit land trust that operates a nature center in Woodstock, Maryland. It is located at the 300-year-old, Mt. Pleasant Farm. The center was founded in 1990 as a private land trust with the goal of protecting and preserving farmland and historic sites in Howard County. The conservancy currently manages legal easements on 1,600 acres of land. In 2014, the conservancy started a second nature center at Belmont