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05
Sept 2022
Drone shots reveal restoration of Harrogate's Plumpton Rocks
Drone shots taken of Plumpton Rocks over the weekend reveal the newly restored site is looking better than ever.
The Grade II* listed visitor attraction reopened on Saturday after being closed to visitors for almost three years.
The site fell into disrepair towards the end of the last century before Historic England added it to the “Heritage at Risk Register” in 2012.
Since then Historic England has worked with the current owners and spent more than £400,000.
Plumpton Rocks closed again in October 2019 to do further work on the dam and bring it up to standard for the Reservoirs Act 1975, but covid further delayed the works.
Much of the work has been to restore the lake back to how it looked in the 18th century.
Credit - Darren Leeming
The owner of the site, Robert de Plumpton Hunter, told the Stray Ferret that he used artwork created by one of the most famous ever English painters to inspire the restoration.
Turner painted a watercolour of Plumpton Rocks in 1797 and more sketches of the site are stored at the Tate in London, which were used to inspire the refurbishment.
Mr Hunter said:
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