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Oct 2024
Sunday Picture Quiz Answers: October 12
Here are the answers to this week's Sunday Picture Quiz. How well did you do?
1. Knabs Ridge wind turbines, Harrogate
These eight turbines, installed in 2007-08, stand 93 metres (305 feet) high on a windswept plot near the Army Foundation College.
Each blade is 30-35 metres (98-114 feet) long and had to be carried to the site very long flatbed lorries.
The wind farm generates 16MW of power – enough to power 7,000 homes.
2. Black cat on the roof of the Market Tavern, Knaresborough
This cat perched on the roof of the Market Tavern on Castlegate is typical Knaresborough: cool, quirky and interesting.
We don't know much about it, though, so if any readers have the low-down on the high cat, please do get in touch and let us know!
The Market Tavern in Knaresborough.
You can just about make out the cat on the pub roof in the photo above.
3. Griffin, Royal Baths, Harrogate
Nearly everyone reading this will have passed this magnificent creature hundreds of times, but how often do we ever really look?
It looks as though it should be one of a pair, but a quick check of the other end of the building reveals no twin.
The Royal Baths were built in 1897 and originally had different kinds of Harrogate spring water – magnesium, chalybeate, etc – piped to it and available on tap for guests to the spa.
Photo: English Heritage.
4. Thornborough Henges
Situated north of Ripon, these three henges – ring-shaped banks and ditches – date from between 3500 and 2500 BC and have been called the 'Stonehenge of the North'.
They are connected by a 'cursus', or trackway, and are roughly aligned south-east to north-west – very similar to the alignment of the Devil's Arrows standing stones, 10 miles away to the south east.
Photo: English Heritage.
English Heritage considers this ancient landscape to be the most important prehistoric site between Wiltshire and the Orkney Islands, and in 2024 acquired the final part of it so the site could be reunited under one owner for the first time in at least 1,500 years.
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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