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Nostell Priory’s Secret Servants’ Furniture: Chippendale Nobody Sees
The house near Wakefield holds the finest Chippendale collection in Britain, and some of the best pieces were never meant to be seen by guests at all.
Most visitors who walk through Nostell Priory head...
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Wade’s Causeway: The Yorkshire Moor Road Nobody Can Agree On
A giant supposedly built it for his wife's cow. Archaeologists spent a century calling it Roman. Neither answer has actually been settled.
Wheeldale Moor, deep in the North York Moors, holds one of the strangest...
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Things We Miss About Old Yorkshire, and the Real Stories Behind Them
Not another photo gallery with a caption and a sigh. Seven specific things old Yorkshire lost, with the actual dates, and one thing that never left at all.
Every regional paper eventually runs the same...
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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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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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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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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...
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Ravenser Odd: The Yorkshire Port That Outranked Hull Before the Sea Took It
A medieval Yorkshire town sent two men to Parliament, collected tolls from over a hundred ships a year, and today lies completely underwater off Spurn Point.
In 1295, a port on the Yorkshire coast sent...
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