Castle Howard railway station guest of Earl of Carlisle in August 1850. A road was built from the station to the stately home. Parts of this road (and the associated columns) can still be seen to the north side of Whitwell-on-the-Hill . The station is now a private residence. 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.
Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home Mary Dudley Sutton, eldest daughter of Edward Sutton, 5th Baron Dudley, the son of the English keeper of Home Castle in 1547 during the Rough Wooing. They had a son James Home, 2nd Earl of Home, and two daughters: Margaret, married to James Stuart, 4th Earl of Moray; and Lady Anne, married to John Maitland, 1st Duke of Lauderdale. His widow, the dowager Mary Countess of Home built Moray House in Edinburgh's Canongate. Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home Alexander Home, 1st Earl of Home and 6th Lord Home (1566? – 5 April 1619) was a Scottish nobleman and Lord