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Extract from the Knaresborough Travel Guides:
A four-mile hop east from Harrogate,
KNARESBOROUGH
rises spectacularly above the River Nidd's limestone gorge, its old town houses, pubs, shops and gardens clustered together on the wooded northern bank, with the river itself crossed by two bridges ("High" and "Low"). The rocky crag above the town is crowned by the stump of a
Castle
(Easter-Sept daily 10.30am-5pm; 2) dating back to Norman times. Built on the site of Roman and Anglo-Saxon fortifications, it's now little more than a fourteenth-century keep in landscaped grounds, thanks to Cromwell's wrecking tactics during the Civil War. It was here...
read the whole Knaresborough Travel Guides...
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