Anne Lister and Anne Walker Rainbow Blue Plaque,  Holy Trinity Church,  Goodramgate,  York

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Barker Tower in York on the River Ouse. Built in the 1300’s it once held a huge chain which was stretched across the river to Lendal Tower to control trade and help the city defences. It has had many uses since including a tannery and is now home to the wonderful Perky Peacock Cafe @visityork #york #visityork #perkypeacockcafe #barkertower #yorkshire #yorkhistory ... See MoreSee Less

Have you visited this place? Maybe have a more close-up photo as mine is old! It’s not very often that places in the Yorkshire Dales remind me of famous landmarks in Sri Lanka.

The Dales version isn’t quite as big as Sigiriya in Sri Lanka, but it’s still remarkable, an impressive stone standing proud on a lonely moorland road south of High Bentham on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales

‘Our’ Sigiriya is imaginatively known as ‘Big Stone’, or the ‘Great Stone of Fourstones’. You won’t be able to find the other three stones but legend says they once lay nearby.

Big Stone is over 5 metres high, and offers views of Ingleborough on a clear day. At some point some strong soul painstakingly carved steps up the side of the stone so you can climb to the top. I think it’s a glacial erratic, transported to this spot when the ice retreated millennia ago.

Some people think the stone was a boundary marker between Yorkshire and Lancashire, others that it was once a meeting place. Some think it was dropped there by the same devil who tried to play a trick at Devil’s Bridge, Kirkby Lonsdale.
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You may already know Malham Tarn, but what about the Yorkshire Dales' other naturally formed small lake? Hidden in tiny Raydale close to Wensleydale, Semerwater is much loved by walkers and water sports enthusiasts. There's a circular footpath from the lake foreshore, or you could follow the footpath along one of England's shortest named rivers - River Bain which meanders over a couple of miles to Bainbridge. By the time it arrives there, it's powerful enough to turn an Archimedes Screw and produce enough power for many of the houses in the village.

Semerwater attracts countless photographers and artists, including Turner who visited and painted here in 1816. Folk singers and poets have seized on some of the legends associated with the lake. Sir William Watson penned the Ballad of Semerwater.

The story goes that a beggar visited a thriving city and asked for food and shelter but was rejected. He was finally given both at a small nearby cottage but in the morning he put a curse on the city: “Semerwater rise, Semerwater sink and bury the town all save the house where they gave me meat and drink.” It's hard to think which city this might have been for it's quite remote, but it is said that a village lays on the bottom of the lake and occasionally you may hear the sounds of bells ringing from its ancient church. The cottage in the story is reputedly at Low Blean. There are other stories of giants fighting the devil across the lake, throwing stones at each other - including the large Carlow Stone (also known as the Devil's Stone) you'll see on the foreshore.

In 1937 when the water level was very low, excavations uncovered an iron-age settlement on what is now the bed of the lake. A late Bronze Age Spear head was also found on the shore of the Lake.
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Have you even been to Whitby if you don’t get a pic at the Whalebones?!

Today’s group of Argentinian students braved the drizzle to get theirs!

Did you know this is the third set of whalebones to be displayed on West Cliff. This set arrived in 2003 and was donated by the people of Alaska. Anchorage, the main city of Alaska is twinned with Whitby.

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