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Mar 2025
Sunday Picture Quiz Answers: March 8
Here are the answers to this week's Sunday Picture Quiz. How well did you do?
1. Shelter, Harrogate
This lovely old structure has stood on West Park in Harrogate for over 130 years and is one of the many features that give the road its character.
Built in 1895, it may originally have been for the benefit of cabmen, although the building further down the road at the top of Montpellier Hill (latterly an ice cream booth during the summer) is usually regarded as the former cabmen's shelter.
Whether or not, it makes for a lovely place to take a breather on a fine day.
2. Weeping Cross, Ripley
This grade II* listed monument in the churchyard of All Saints dates from at least the 14th century and is thought to be the only medieval 'weeping cross' left in England.
The purpose of those eight hollows around the base have been much speculated about, but its official listing says:
The recesses are said to allow the faithful to kneel in, but assuming that the cross originally stood higher (possibly on another plinth) the recesses are more likely to be for the bowed head.
This explanation makes sense, given that the recesses are slightly too narrow to accommodate two adult knees.
3. Ticket office mural, Knaresborough railway station
This double mural is one of many in Knaresborough. Officially, there are 16 trompe l'oeil paintings, but more have been added since that count.
These characters welcome passengers entering or leaving Knaresborough railway station, and are usually the only rail staff on the platform.
Photo: op47/www.geograph.org.uk under Creative Commons licence.
4. Jenny Twigg and her daughter Tib
Hands up who thought this was Brimham Rocks!
That's actually an easy mistake to make, since those formations and these, high on the moors above Middlesmoor in Nidderdale, were made at the same time, through the same process.
Both are gritstone outcrops formed by deposits in a massive river delta around 300 million years ago. Far more recently, they have been shaped by ice ages and erosion into these wonderful forms.
The names of these two isolated rocks, the taller of which stands about 20 feet high, comes from folklore. Jenny Twiggy is said to have been the proprietress of an inn at Arkleside, in neighbouring Coverdale.
Legend has it that the bodies of three pedlars were found on Dead Man’s Hill between Arkleside and what is now Scar House reservoir, and Jenny Twigg and her daughter Tib were rumoured to be their murderers.
Too easy or too difficult? Let us know what you think of our quiz by contacting us at letters@thestrayferret.co.uk.
Please do send us tricky pics of the area that we can include – and we'll credit your contribution. Thank you!
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