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Royal Pump Room Museum
Harrogate's museum in the 1842 pump room where visitors drank the sulphur water; run by North Yorkshire Council.
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Harrogate & Knaresborough: things to do
Places worth your time in Harrogate & Knaresborough
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Things to do in Harrogate & Knaresborough
Landmarks, museums, parks and viewpoints in and around the area.
Park
Valley Gardens
Grade II listed park of 17 acres, laid out in 1887 for Queen Victoria's golden jubilee.
Park
The Stray
About 200 acres of open grassland around the town centre, linking the old springs and wells.
Historic bath
Royal Baths and Turkish Baths
Hydrotherapy centre opened by the town in 1897; its Victorian Turkish baths are still in use.
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Theatre
Royal Hall
Grade II* listed performance hall and theatre.
Gallery
Mercer Art Gallery
Council gallery in the Old Town Hall since 1991, with over 2,000 works, mainly from the 19th century onwards.
Garden
RHS Garden Harlow Carr
One of the Royal Horticultural Society's five public gardens, on the western edge of Harrogate.
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Theatre
Harrogate Theatre
Grade II listed theatre with a traditional fly tower for scenery.
Church
St Wilfrid's Church
Parish church by Temple Moore, the only Grade I listed building in Harrogate.
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Castle
Knaresborough Castle
Ruined fortress on the cliff above the River Nidd in Knaresborough.
Attraction
Mother Shipton's Cave
Cave and petrifying well beside the Nidd; the well has charged visitors since 1630.
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Bridge
Knaresborough Viaduct
Railway viaduct over the Nidd; the first, unfinished viaduct collapsed into the river, delaying the line by three years.
Chapel
Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag
Early 15th-century wayside shrine cut into the sandstone cliff of the Nidd gorge.
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Historic site
St Robert's Cave
13th-century hermitage cut into the gorge, once the home of Robert of Knaresborough.
Historic house
Ripley Castle
Grade I listed 14th-century country house in Ripley, three miles north of Harrogate.
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- Harrogate & Knaresborough (area photo): David Rogers, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Valley Gardens: DS Pugh, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Royal Baths and Turkish Baths: Photochrom Print Collection, Public domain, source
- Mercer Art Gallery: Storye book, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Harrogate Theatre: Spudgun67, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- St Wilfrid's Church: Andrewrabbott (talk), Public domain, source
- Knaresborough Castle: Redvers, CC BY 2.0, source
- Mother Shipton's Cave: Chris Gorringe, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Knaresborough Viaduct: Steveriley39, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag: Redvers, CC BY 2.0, source
- Ripley Castle: Dposte46, Public domain, source
- North York Moors: JThomas, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
- Yorkshire Dales: F. C. Franklin, CC BY-SA 3.0, source
- Whitby & Robin Hood's Bay: ianpudsey, CC BY 3.0, source
- Scarborough: derek dye, CC BY-SA 2.0, source
Photos from Wikimedia Commons, used under the licences shown. All photo credits
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