Yorkshire folklore
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Cottingley Fairies Yorkshire: The Hoax That Fooled the World for 60 Years
Two schoolgirls, a borrowed camera and a beck at the bottom of a Bradford garden produced five photographs that convinced Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fairies were real. The Cottingley Fairies hoax ran for six...
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Janet’s Foss, Malham: The Fairy Queen’s Waterfall in the Yorkshire Dales
A six-metre waterfall drops over a curtain of limestone tufa into a pool the colour of pale jade, twenty minutes' walk from Malham village. Local tradition has held for generations that a fairy queen...
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Bride Stones, Todmorden: The Wedding Party the Moor Never Let Go
Half a mile of weathered millstone grit along a ridge above the Calder Valley, and a story that has run since at least 1491: a wedding party, caught in fog on the way home,...
History
Mother Shipton’s Cave, Knaresborough: England’s Oldest Tourist Attraction
A well beside the River Nidd has been turning ordinary objects to stone since long before photography existed to prove it. Mother Shipton's Cave and its Petrifying Well have been charging visitors an entry...
History
House in the Rock, Knaresborough: One Man Carved a Home From the Cliff by Hand
A linen weaver spent sixteen years cutting a house out of solid rock with hand tools alone, and his descendants lived in it for over two centuries.
Thomas Hill wove linen for a living. He...
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