Pub that closed in 2008 reopens to win best in Britain
In 2008, the only pub in Hudswell in North Yorkshire, the George & Dragon, shut down after its owners went bust. Regulars decided to club together to get it reopened and now it's been named the best in Britain.
Best Pubs Knaresborough.
Looking for good pub food in Knaresborough? Places to stay in Knaresborough? Knaresborough best pub? Take a look at The Old Royal Oak in Knaresborough. Set in the shadows of Knaresborough Castle in North Yorkshire, England. The Old Royal Oak provides great food, excellent Accommodation and top quality beers. Got to be the best place to stay for short breaks in yorkshire. Best pub food, best Accommodation and great if you're visiting Harrogate as the train station is just a few hundred yards away.
Knaresborough Bed Race 2013 Brymor the Dragon
1st Scriven Scout Group's entry for the Great Knaresborough Bed Race 2013. Theme was Myths and Legends. Our entry was St George and the Dragon and we won the prize for Best Dressed Bed.
The poem is the opening lines of 'A Gift for a Dragon' by Austin Hackney.
Come to my feast, said the Dragon. And be sure to bring a gift.
By tooth, by claw, by scale, by wing,
What to the Dragon's feast shall I bring?
A maiden in chains, all dressed in white?
Or the charred remains of a Christian knight?
Knaresborough Mummers at The George Inn, Easingwold 30/12/2017
A performance of the traditional 'Blue Stots' resurrection play by the Knaresborough Mummers. For more information, see
Places to see in ( Kirkbymoorside - UK )
Places to see in ( Kirkbymoorside - UK )
Kirkbymoorside is a small market town and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England, about 25 miles north of York, midway between Pickering and Helmsley, on the edge of the North York Moors National Park.
Kirkbymoorside is noted as Chirchebi in Domesday Book (1086). It has served as a trading hub at least since 1254, when it became a market town. There are two ancient coaching inns extant, the Black Swan with its carved porch, and the cruck-framed George and Dragon, which originated in the 13th century. The Georgian façades point to later periods of commercial prosperity on the coaching route between York and Scarborough.
There is some dispute as to the correct spelling (the alternative spelling being Kirbymoorside, as it is traditionally pronounced), but it is usually and officially spelled with the k. Signposts also read Kirkbymoorside. Kirk means church and -by is the Viking word for settlement, so the name translates as settlement with a church by the moorside. A valley near the town is known as Kirkdale. More recently, Kirkbymoorside was the last town in England to adopt double yellow lines to restrict parking.
George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, died on 16 April 1687, in the house of a local tenant, from a chill caught whilst hunting nearby. England’s oldest fox hunt, still running today, is the Bilsdale Hunt in Yorkshire, which the Duke founded in 1668. The building, Buckingham House, is located in the town centre. Manor Vale, a stretch of woodland managed by the town council, was formerly part of a deer park and contains the Grade II remains of the manor. It contains areas of both acidic and alkaline soil. It is home to a rare beetle species, Oedemera virescens.
The town is home to one of only two British aircraft producers left, Slingsby Aviation, the other being Britten-Norman on the Isle of Wight. Many sub-sea vehicles and robots are also manufactured at Slingsby Aviation, which is located roughly 1 mile south of the town centre. The town is home to Kirkbymoorside Town Brass Band, which has achieved success on a national level, most recently winning the North of England Brass Band First Section Championship in 2004, 2008 and 2015.
Kirbymoorside railway station was connected to the national railway network from 1875 until 1964.The track was lifted by August 2015. The last passenger trains ran in the early 1950s, but a goods train ran from Malton via Gilling East until 1964. The rails between Kirkbymoorside and Pickering were lifted in the 1950s and the main A170 road runs over part of the track bed to the east of the town. There were plans, since withdrawn, for a Tesco store to be built on the site of the old railway station, which caused some controversy. The station buildings were demolished in 2010 and the site is now occupied, in part, by new houses.
( Kirkbymoorside - UK ) is well know as a tourist destination because of the variety of places you can enjoy while you are visiting Kirkbymoorside . Through a series of videos we will try to show you recommended places to visit in Kirkbymoorside - UK
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Jean Lee &Sharon Donnelly - Karaoke Night
Taken almost live at the Top House (George & Dragon) Knaresborough.
Ian Shaw (The Boogieman) karaoke - Excellent
The Crown Inn - Roecliffe, North Yorkshire
The Crown Inn at Roecliffe in North Yorkshire is a 16th century coaching inn that retains the inn's historic features, such as stone flag floors, crackling open log fires and oak beams, with the addition of sumptuous 5 Star accommodation. Whether you're treating yourself to a luxury break, looking for some of the finest food in North Yorkshire, or simply dropping in to sample one of our guest ales, you're guaranteed a wonderful warm welcome.
TPO @ The St. George
Thanks to Gabe Haz for providing this footage from a quiet night at the St. George in 2011.
Spofforth Castle (Part One)
Dave takes you to Spofforth Castle, in part one he goes on the outward journey and talks through the near on Millenia of History at the site
♫ Oh You Beautiful Doll ♫
If you've ever been into a Public House in the north of England, you'll see some characters. The same people will be sat in their usual seats, putting the world to rights whilst the woman is at home getting the dinner ready.
A259 Scooter Rideout
A short video of an A259 Scooter Club Rideout
History & Haunting of St Mary's parish church ,Hinckley
Hinckley is a market town in southwest Leicestershire, England.
St Mary's parish church in Hinckley was dedicated in the Middle Ages to the Assumption of Saint Mary the Virgin. This church building has stood on the site for almost nine hundred years, although there may well have been a church already on the site, as the remnants of an Anglo Saxon sun-dial is visible on the diagonal buttress on the south-east corner of the chancel. The church was built by William FitzOsbern, who came over with William the Conqueror.
According to local tradition, the gravestone of Richard Smith is said to 'sweat blood' on the anniversary of his murder.
St Mary's Church of Hinckley in Leicestershire is the last resting place of Richard Smith who was killed on 12th April 1727, aged 20 years old. Simeon Stayne was a recruiting Sergeant for the Army, he had come to Hinckley and stood outside the 'Pig and Whistle' along Regent Street, informing a crowd of potential new soldiers about the virtues of taking the King's shilling. When the Sergeant suggested that the George Inn (now the Bounty) was named after King George II, Richard started to heckle him and said that the George Inn was actually named the George and Dragon.
Richard would not stop with his comments, the Sergeant lost his temper and gave the crowd a demonstration in how to use a halberd in close quarter combat, it was at this point he struck Richard with the weapon and then left him lying on the floor in blood. Later on, Richard died of the wounds that the Sergeant had inflicted upon him; the Sergeant had now fled Hinckley.
Richard was buried near the Church wall of St Mary's Church during April 1727. Simeon Stayne was later arrested and sent to Leicester Assizes, which is where he received the sentence of death for murdering Richard Smith.
Upon Richard's gravestone is the following inscription:
A fatal Halbert his mortal Body slew
The murdering Hand God's vengeance will pursue
From shades Terrestrial, though Justice took her flight
Shall not the judge of all the Earth do right
Each Age and Sex his Innocence bemoans
And with sad sighs laments his dying Groans
The church itself is said to be home to phantom footsteps, believed to belong to a monk.
A Halberd (also called Halbard or Halbert) is a two-handed wooden pole with a combined spear point, axe and hook at one end. The Halberd had become a symbol of rank, it was carried by recruiting Sergeants of the British Army during the 18th Century. It was known that the Sergeants used the halberd to ensure that infantrymen drawn up in ranks stood correctly aligned with each other.
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The weather vane, 184 feet up on St Mary's church tower at Hinkley is a fine cockerel which dates back some 200 years. In 1993 a headline appeared in the local paper entitled “Sorry Cock”. At the time the church steeple was being renovated and somebody took advantage of scaffolding to steal the said weather vane. The vicar appealed for its return in the press and early one morning he found the weather vane on his doorstep and it had been newly painted. There was also a note of apology telling that it was all the result of a drunken prank.
Hinckley has a history going back to Anglo-Saxon times; the name Hinckley is Anglo Saxon: Hinck is someone's name and ley is a meadow. By the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, Hinckley was quite a large village, and grew over the following 200 years into a small market town—a market was first recorded there in 1311. There is evidence of an Anglo Saxon church – the remnants of an Anglo Saxon sun-dial being visible on the diagonal buttress on the south-east corner of the chancel.
In 2000, archaeologists from Northampton Archaeology discovered evidence of Iron Age and Romano-British settlement on land near Coventry Road and Watling Street.
Red Lion Wetherby
Stiggy still hammering a good old Oasis track
A visit to a few of the lesser known breweries and pubs of North Yorkshire
Philthy and myself went to see some amazing breweries from north Yorkshire and also visit some of the lesser pubs and landmarks in the area. Apologies for the low volume, my fault. It was an all round great few days with lots of learning, sorry I did not get more footage inside the venues but we turned up unannounced to most of them and the camera was somewhat out of place.
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The Grouse Inn Yorkshire Pub, Oldfield, Keighley, West Yorkshire - Timothy Taylor Premium Food Pub
Nestled high above the Worth Valley, with breath-taking views over the Brontë Sisters' famous moors, The Grouse Inn offers a true Yorkshire welcome. You can be assured of the very best in home-cooked food, real Yorkshire Ales (from Timothy Taylor's, no less!), a well-stocked wine cellar and a view to match any in the country.
Rumburgh Mummers' Play, Saint George's Day 2014
Rumburgh Mummers (aka Rumburgh Morris) perform a Mummers' Play for Saint George's Day, 23 April 2014, at the The Buck public house in Rumburgh. Cast - Presenter: Bethan, St George: Dave 1, Prince Paradise: Paul, Slasher: Pete, Doctor: Dave 2, Beelzebub: Ken, Groom: Daphne, Young Ball (the horse): Jill.
Stamford Mummers Play 2007
Performed by the Stamford Mummers to a Christmas house party in 2007.
Most of the mummers had been doing the same play each Christmas for at least 30 years - and doesn't it show!
whos life is that good
whos life is that good, daniel craig, the jacket
Knaresborough Bed Race 2018 - Wonkamobile
1st Scriven Scout Group's entry to 2018 Great Knaresborough Bed Race. Theme for the year; A Night at the Theatre. The Group chose Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The team's bed depicts the Wonkamobile from the original (Gene Wilder) film. The entry won Best Dressed Bed, building on victories in 2017 (AT-AT Walker), 2015 (Batmobile - 2nd place), 2014 (Despicable Me; Gru's Car) and 2013 (George and Brymor the Dragon)
Timothy Taylor Premium Managed Food Pubs in Yorkshire
A short video of an introduction to our managed food pubs. Part of the Timothy Taylor Brewery in Yorkshire.