Annie and I end our Yorkshire sojourn (with occasional Lancashire sidestep) at the Ribblehead Viaduct, a stunning icon of both Yorkshire and Victorian engineering. It is not the longest or highest viaduct in the U. K., those honours going to the Glenfinnan Viaduct and Ballochmyle Viaducts respectively, but from a purely aesthetic point of view …
Like the Stump Cross Caverns and the Coldstones Cut, Brimham Rocks was another chance discovery. Unlike the other two, I had heard of Brimham Rocks before and fancied seeing them, but as I had never got around to lodging their location in my brain I had no idea where they were. Lo and behold, according …
As with the Stump Cross Caverns, Annie and I stumbled across a brown sign for the Coldstones Cut by chance, and the fact the attraction’s name gave absolutely no indication what it actually was meant we just had to check it out. As it transpires, the Coldstones Cut is a monumental work of public art, …
The plan was Skipton Castle, but that went all gang aft agley when Annie and I passed a brown sign for something called Stump Cross Caverns. Exactly what these were we knew not, but eighteen castles have featured in these pages to date with not a single cave complex in sight, so it was time …
For our final jaunt into Brontë Country, Annie and I went in search of the Brontë Stones, recent additions to the sisters’ landscape. These mark a trail connecting their famous former home at the Brontë Parsonage Museum in Haworth to their lesser known birthplace in nearby Thornton, via the wild moorland environment with which they …
“We set off, not intending to go far; but though wild and cloudy it was fine in the morning; when we got about half-a-mile on the moors, Arthur suggested the idea of the waterfall; after the melted snow, he said it would be fine. I had often wished to see it in its winter power, …
The Brontë Parsonage Museum houses the largest collection of Brontë related items in the world, and quite right too. The building may not be where the celebrated trio of literary sisters were born – that’s in nearby Thornton – but it was the cradle of their genius, where Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë crafted the …
