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Jun 2025
Sunday Picture Quiz Answers: June 7
Here are the answers to this week's Sunday Picture Quiz. How well did you do?
1. Lakeside pagoda, Grewelthorpe
The Himalayan Garden and Sculpture Park near Masham covers 45 acres and features one of the North’s largest collection of rhododendrons, azaleas and magnolias.
There's also a Himalayan shelter, contemplation circle, Norse hut, summerhouse, and an open-air gallery with 90 permanent sculptures on display.
Standing on the bank of one of the park's three lakes is this beautiful pagoda, which was built in Bali. A specialist team from Indonesia came to the park to assemble the pagoda by the lake.
2. Harrogate Hebrew Congregation
Harrogate's synagogue, on St Mary's Walk, was built in 1968 and can accommodate about 200 people.
The Harrogate Hebrew Congregation was established in 1918 and a synagogue was first opened on this site in 1925.
3. Battle Cross, Aldborough
This 18-foot-high stone monument probably dates from the 15th century and commemorates the Battle of Boroughbridge in 1322.
The battle was the culmination of a long period of friction between King Edward II and his most powerful subject, Thomas, Earl of Lancaster, and it resulted in Lancaster's defeat and execution.
Lancaster's rebels, outnumbered by more than five to one, were forced to fight as there was no other place to cross the River Ure and another force was coming to cut them off from the south.
The battle was short, and according to one account, the Earl of Hereford was killed by a royal army pikeman hiding under the bridge, who thrust his spear upwards, giving the earl a particularly nasty end.
The Battle Cross originally stood in Boroughbridge but was moved to its current site in neighbouring Aldborough in 1852.
4. Le Monument, Ripley
This dry-stone sculpture was created by Gordon Simpson to commemorate the Grand Départ of the Tour de France, which passed this way on July 5, 2014.
It was unveiled by champion cyclist Brian Robinson, who was the first Briton to finish the Tour de France and the first to win a Tour stage.
The first two stages of the 2014 Tour were held in Yorkshire – Harrogate was the heart of operations – and they attracted an estimated 3.5 million roadside spectators and pumped £102 million into the region's economy.
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