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  • 1. Knaresborough Castle Knaresborough
    Knaresborough is a market and spa town and civil parish in the Borough of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, on the River Nidd 4 miles east of Harrogate.
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  • 3. Mother Shipton's Cave and The Petrifying Well Knaresborough
    Mother Shipton's Cave is at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England, near to the River Nidd. Nearby is a petrifying well which is the oldest entrance-charging tourist attraction in England, open since 1630. The water of the well is rich in sulphate and carbonate which is deposited as a ramp and screen below, and in which artefacts are petrified as a tourist attraction.The place is associated with the legendary soothsayer and prophetess Mother Shipton , born Ursula Southeil, wife of Toby Shipton. According to legend she was born in the cave. The cave and dropping well, together with other attractions, remain open to visitors and are run by Mother Shipton's Cave Ltd.
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  • 4. Plumpton Rocks Knaresborough
    Plompton is a hamlet and civil parish located south of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. It is close to the A661. Plompton Hall is a Grade II* listed building designed by the architect John Carr, and built about 1760. The composer John Hebden originates from the parish.
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  • 7. Allerton Castle Knaresborough
    Allerton Mauleverer is a village in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is part of the Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton parish. The parish is in the district of Harrogate, and lies just 5 miles east of the town Knaresborough. From 1947 to 1998, Allerton Mauleverer was part of the Claro Registration District, until it was abolished. The A1 runs through the area connecting London and Edinburgh. In the 1870s, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Allerton Mauleverer as a township and a parish in Knaresborough district, W. R. Yorkshire. The township includes Hopperton; and lies on an affluent of the Nidd, at the Allerton r. station, 4½ miles ENE of Knaresborough.The name Allerton Mauleverer originally meant Aelfweard's farm/settlement. Ref...
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  • 9. Henshaws Arts & Crafts Centre Knaresborough
    Henshaws Society for Blind People , by Oldham businessman Thomas Henshaw, is a specialist charity providing support, advice and training to anyone affected by sight loss and other disabilities. The charity has changed names three times. In 1921, it was 'Henshaw’s Institution for the Blind', in January 1971 it changed to 'Henshaw’s Society for the Blind', and then finally in 2000 to 'Henshaws Society for Blind People.'
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  • 13. Church of St John the Baptist Knaresborough
    Kirk Hammerton is a village and civil parish in the Harrogate district of North Yorkshire, England. It is near the River Nidd and the A59 road, 10 miles west of York. The village suffix refers to the Hamerton family who owned the land until the 16th century.
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  • 14. St Robert's Cave Knaresborough
    Henry Peter Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux, was a British statesman who became Lord Chancellor of Great Britain. As a young lawyer in Scotland, Brougham helped to found the Edinburgh Review in 1802 and contributed many articles to it. He went to London, and was called to the English bar in 1808. In 1810 he entered the House of Commons as a Whig. Brougham took up the fight against the slave trade and opposed restrictions on trade with continental Europe. In 1820, he won popular renown as chief attorney to Queen Caroline, and in the next decade he became a liberal leader in the House. He not only proposed educational reforms in Parliament but also was one of the founders of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge in 1825 and of University College London in 1826. As Lord Chan...
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