Houses for sale in Scotton - the village that England’s most famous terrorist once called home

But if Scotton’s most famous resident still watches worldly proceedings from ‘beyond the veil’, he may well have been pleased that people in his home village were not celebrating his demise this week.

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Scotton, just north of Knaresborough, is where none other than Guy Fawkes lived as a teenager and it may even be where he was “radicalised”.

So the fact that Scotton, like pretty much everywhere else in England, has long held a village bonfire to mark November 5 might well have been a source of misgiving for the ghost of England’s most famous revolutionary.

We’ve long had an ambivalent view of Guy Fawkes. Remembered by some as the “last man to enter Parliament with honest intentions”, he has been romanticised and even idolised as a dashing rogue.

He had, of course, come very close to killing the king and his Protestant government all in one big bang in 1605, so at the time he was considered almost demonic.

After lengthy torture he was, on January 31, 1606, given a traitor’s execution: dragged head-down on a hurdle from the Tower of London to Westminster, hanged, and then quartered, his body-parts sent to the four corners of the kingdom.

On November 5, 1605 - the day Fawkes was arrested - Londoners were encouraged to celebrate the King’s escape from assassination by lighting bonfires, and that’s what we’ve been doing ever since, even burning effigies of Guy, England’s original fundamentalist terrorist.

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In Scotton, residents and visitors usually gather around a bonfire at the cricket ground, before retiring to the Guy Fawkes Arms to warm up.

That did not happen this week, of course, but the village does have other strengths.

The nearby Scotton Lingerfield Community Primary School is rated Good by Ofsted (2018) and the amenities of Knaresborough are on its doorstep. The following houses are all currently for sale in the village.

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Furrowfield is a spacious family home with far-reaching views across the countryside to the north. Upstairs, there are four bedrooms, three bathrooms and a study, and on the ground floor there’s an entrance hall, breakfast kitchen, utility room, snug, dining room, sitting room and large garden room looking out across the terrace and lawned back garden.

Elm Lodge is a detached dormer bungalow on a generous plot near the primary school and just along the road from Farnham North Lake, which is used by Ripon Sailing Club. It has five bedrooms (three of them on the ground floor), three bathrooms, sitting room, open-plan living kitchen and family room, and an integral with outside workshop, large store and potting shed. There’s also an acre of garden and off-street parking on the drive.

7 Ripley Road is an extended semi-detached house to the south of the main village, on the main road to Knaresborough. It has four bedrooms, two bathrooms, dining kitchen, study and lounge, and outside there’s off-street parking, a single garage and beautiful back garden.