Christopher Sykes Bart Monument

Today I went on a bike ride around the Yorkshire Wolds and came across this monument. It was erected in 1840 and sits opposite an entrance to Sledmere House.  The inscription around the top reads:

"This edifice was erected by Sir Tatton Sykes Bart to the memory of his father Sir Christopher Sykes Bart who by assiduity and perseverance in building and planting and inclosing on the Yorkshire Wolds, in the short space of thirty years, set such an example to other owners of land, as has caused what once was a bleak and barren tract of country to become now one of the most productive and best cultivated districts in the County of York."