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O - Old Mother Shipton's Well, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. A petrifying well so rich in sulphate and carbonate that objects hung in it get encrusted. Visited many years ago. Apparently there's Mother Shipton's Cave too but I never saw that.
 
Lindum said:
O - Old Mother Shipton's Well, Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. A petrifying well so rich in sulphate and carbonate that objects hung in it get encrusted. Visited many years ago. Apparently there's Mother Shipton's Cave too but I never saw that.
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Pass signs for Old Mother Shipton's Cave on the way to the North East but am a little puzzled as it has a red rose sign next to it. So, is it in Yorkshire or not I wonder?
 
P PONTEFRACT in West Yorkshire - home of the Pontefract Cake or Pomfret cake as it was called when the town of Pontefract was called Pomfret.
 
herringthorpe said:
Pass signs for Old Mother Shipton's Cave on the way to the North East but am a little puzzled as it has a red rose sign next to it. So, is it in Yorkshire or not I wonder?
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It's definitely in Yorkshire, Caz but the sign you saw may have been in Lancashire. Mind you, main route to NE from Rotherham is M1, A1(M) which doesn't go near Lancs (I think)
 
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herringthorpe said:
P PONTEFRACT in West Yorkshire - home of the Pontefract Cake or Pomfret cake as it was called when the town of Pontefract was called Pomfret.
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I didn't know that but I used to love Pomfret cakes until GP told me they were bad for my high blood pressure. Apparently something in liquorice and pure liquorice sweets I used to buy online have health warnings on them!
 
Lindum said:
It's definitely in Yorkshire, Caz but the sign you saw may have been in Lancashire. Mind you, main route to NE from Rotherham is M1, A1(M) which doesn't go near Lancs (I think)
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It's a brown sign (like all info ones are) and it def has a red rose next to it - and, no, we were nowhere near Lancs.
 
Lindum said:
I didn't know that but I used to love Pomfret cakes until GP told me they were bad for my high blood pressure. Apparently something in liquorice and pure liquorice sweets I used to buy online have health warnings on them!
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I didn't know that!
 
S - Scarborough. Seaside resort with a Victorian funicular railway. I had intended to retire to there or Brid or Whitby but haven't yet got round to it.
 
T THONTON-LE-DALE - near Pickering. When we'd been to Scarborough for a holiday or just the day we often came home via Thornton-le-Dale - used to be a very nice tea shop there. It's very pretty.
 
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T THONTON-LE-DALE - near Pickering. When we'd been to Scarborough for a holiday or just the day we often came home via Thornton-le-Dale - used to be a very nice tea shop there. It's very pretty.
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Is that Lavender's Tea Rooms? Not been in but think we had lunch in a pub there - can't remember name but right in the village.
 
U - Ulley Reservoir. Now used for sailing and fishing and as the centrepiece to the country park but built in 1871 to provide water to Rotherham four miles to the north.
 
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