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7 Yorkshire Fairytale Castles Worth the Journey
These are the seven that still look the part, turrets, keeps, and all, not the stately homes that get called castles by mistake.
Say "Yorkshire castle" to most people, and they picture Castle Howard, all...
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St Robert’s Cave: The Knaresborough Murder That Waited 13 Years
A shoemaker vanished from Knaresborough in 1745. Nobody found him for thirteen years, and when they finally did, he was in a hermit's cave.
St Robert's Cave sits cut into the limestone cliffs above the...
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Wensleydale Creamery: The Dale Where Monks Invented Yorkshire’s Cheese
French Cistercian monks brought a cheese recipe to Wensleydale in the 12th century. Nearly 900 years later, it's still made in the same dale, and the abbey that started it is a ruin nobody...
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Ripley Castle: The Night Trooper Jane Held Cromwell at Gunpoint
A teenage girl from the same family sat up all night with a pistol in the castle library, and Oliver Cromwell was on the other side of the door.
Ripley Castle sits a few miles...
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Pershore Plums: The Worcestershire Harvest Nobody Writes About
In 1827, a publican in a small Worcestershire town found a plum tree growing wild in a wood and decided to see what it produced. By 1870, over 900 tons of the Pershore plums...
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Flamborough Head: Britain’s Oldest Lighthouse and Its Smuggling Past
A lighthouse built in 1674 still stands on this headland. It was never lit. The man who built it went bankrupt before a single ship ever used it to find safe water, and it's...
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Alnwick Poison Garden: Inside England’s Only Garden That Can Kill You
Every year, staff at Alnwick Poison Garden count how many visitors faint on the tour. One recent summer, the tally reached around 70. Nobody's certain if it's the stories, the smell, or something in...
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Pontefract Cakes: Yorkshire’s 900-Year Liquorice Secret
A small black coin, stamped with a castle, sold in nearly every corner shop in Britain for over two centuries. Almost nobody who eats one knows the town it's named after once ran 13...
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