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Sept 2024

Last Updated: 12/09/2025
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Lifestyle

Sunday Picture Quiz Answers: September 14

by The Stray Ferret

| 14 Sept, 2024
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Here are the answers to this week's Sunday Picture Quiz. How well did you do?

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1. The Starbeck sign on Knaresborough Road, Harrogate

This sign usually tells passers-by that they're entering Starbeck, but when the Stray Ferret took its picture, it was obscured by greenery.

The boundary marker is an old train wheel and was chosen as a nod to Starbeck's railway heritage. The station there was a major hub of the rail network for over 100 years, with a marshalling yard, engine shed, warehouses and coal depot.

Most of that infrastructure is now gone, but thankfully, the station survived the sweeping cuts to the railway network in the 1960s known as the 'Beeching Axe' and remains a well used stop on the Harrogate-to-York line.

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2. Druid's Temple, Ilton nr Masham

It would be rather exciting if this arrangement of standing stones on the 20,000-acre Swinton Estate were a genuine neolithic relic, but it's not – it's a folly built by Swinton Park owner William Danby in the late 1700s.

Danby, who was also responsible for rebuilding the house at Swinton Park in neo-gothic style, is believed to have built the folly to create work for the unemployed, or possibly for estate workers returning from the Napoleonic Wars. He even paid a "hermit" to be at one with nature, living in solitude at the temple.

Swinton Park has been owned by the Cunliffe-Lister family since the 1880s, and it is now run as a hotel.

Although not genuinely neolithic, Druid's Temple is nevertheless a popular spot for picnickers and mountain bikers.

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3. The dam at Scar House Reservoir, Nidderdale

With its decorative stonework and crenellations, the dam at Scar House looks very much like a product of the Victorian boom in water engineering that saw the creation of so many reservoirs around the country.

But work on building this reservoir was actually started in 1921 and completed 15 years later.

Along with Angram reservoir, which was completed at the top of the dale in 1919, Scar House was created to supply water to the Bradford area. It flows to the city via the Nidd Aqueduct, which is a 31-mile-long chain of bridges and tunnels – one of them bored right through Greenhow Hill.

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4. Duchy College, Harrogate

If you've never heard of Duchy College, you're probably in good company – it's the new name for Harrogate Ladies' College and only officially came into use at the start of this term.

The governors had to think of a new name for the private school, which occupies a considerable chunk of the leafy Duchy Estate, largely because it now admits boys.

The transition will be phased, with boys admitted to Year 7 and Year 12 (the lower sixth) from 2026, and more joining them as they progress through the school, one year at a time. Duchy College will be fully co-educational by 2030.

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!