When you are going to hike – pack a light heart
Dan May
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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 22nd 2020
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Knaresborough Viaduct
The viaduct connects Knaresborough with Harrogate on the Harrogate line, in North Yorkshire, England.[8] The line was built in 1848 with the Leeds and Thirsk Railway creating a branch from their line at Starbeck railway station to go through Knaresborough and connect with the line that was being built westwards from York as part of the East and West Yorkshire Junction Railway.[9] Just [...]
8 Comments CherryPie on Nov 22nd 2020
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Knaresborough Castle &
…Courtroom Museum
There has been a castle in Knaresborough for over 900 years. Over the centuries there have been significant periods of building and repair work as the castle was adapted to meet changing military requirements, fashions and historic events.
The early castle
We know very little about the castle’s origins but there may have been an Anglo-Saxon [...]
No Comments CherryPie on Nov 21st 2020
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Ripon Cathedral
The Cathedral Church of St Peter and St Wilfrid, commonly known as Ripon Cathedral, and until 1836 known as Ripon Minster, is a cathedral in the North Yorkshire city of Ripon. Founded as a monastery by Scottish monks in the 660s, it was refounded as a Benedictine monastery by St Wilfrid in 672. The church became collegiate in the tenth century, and acted as [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 19th 2020
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Valley Gardens – Harrogate
Harrogate’s Grade II listed, award wining garden was originally simply a footpath beside a stream from the Royal Pump Room to Bog Field where there are thirty-six different mineral wells. Valley Pleasure Grounds were opened in 1887. The gardens were extended by the purchase of ‘Collins Field’ in 1901 creating an area of 17 acres.
Behold [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Oct 28th 2020
Filed under Gardens, Heritage, Holidays, Sherborne 2019
Berkeley Castle Garden
6 Comments CherryPie on Jun 26th 2020
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The Hurdy Gurdy
This composite instrument, the body dating back to the 17th century and carved from a single block of English beech has a birch table. The head and key box are by the French maker Francois Louvet who presumably restored and added to this ancient instrument following irrevocable damage suffered in the 18th century.*
*From a sign [...]
11 Comments CherryPie on Jun 25th 2020
