Heslington Hall (Raf) eadquarters of the RAF's Four Group of Bomber Command. | Education Video by World of Military

<p>Heslington village about two miles or so from York city centre is a magnificent Tudor-style building that was one of the first buildings, along with Kings Manor, to constitute the University of York. </p><p>Built in the shape of an E, with a stone pillared entrance porch surrounded by the Yarburgh coat-of-arms, the external principal part of Helsington Hall had scarcely altered since the time it was built, that is, until 1854 when Graeme Yarburgh of Sowerby Hall Bridlington commissioned Philip Charles Hardwick to rebuild the hall in the Victorian Jacobean style.</p><p><br></p><p>Supposedly built for the reception of Queen Elizabeth I between 1565-1568, this impressive manor house was constructed for Thomas Eynns who was the Secretary and Keeper of the Seal to the Council of the North. However, there is no record of Good Queen Bess ever having stayed there. Historically, properties such as Heslington Hall, rarely passed directly down a family line from father to son, because of high levels of mortality and proprietors who died childless.</p><p><br></p><p>On Eynns’ death, the house passed into the Hesketh family and subsequently to the Yarburghs. Historians note that Heslington Ha