Slingsby Vale at Ferrensby, North Yorkshire, which is using specially-manufactured bricks from York Handmade Brick Company. A NORTH Yorkshire brick firm has played a significant role in a new housing development. The independent York Handmade Brick Company, in Easingwold, supplied 262,000 specially-manufactured bricks for the scheme at Ferrensby, near Harrogate. Altogether York Handmade provided more than £150,000 worth of bricks for the Slingsby Vale site which is being developed by Harrogate developer Jack Lunn (Properties) Ltd. The development features 18 detached houses, 11 of which will be marketed on the open market. Prices will range from £375,000 to £825,000, while seven of the 18 homes will be affordable.