Re: Today in pictures
An Evening Out In Yorkshire
1 & 2: Barden Tower: It was a hunting lodge since early Plantagenet times, but it was rebuilt in stone c.1485–1490 by Henry Clifford. The tower were renovated and rebuilt by Lady Anne Clifford in the 1650s.
3 & 4: Barden Bridge is a three-arched humpbacked bridge across the River Wharfe north of Bolton Abbey and was erected in 1659, it was rebuilt in 1676. The parapets had to be renewed in 1856 and again in 1956 after flood damage.
5 & 6: Broughton Hall is a Georgian country house and is a Grade I listed building and has been the seat of the Tempest Baronets for 900 years and it is still run by a direct descendant of the Tempest family.
7: All Saints Church Broughton
8 & 9: The Cavendish memorial fountain is a drinking fountain erected in 1886 at Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire as a memorial to Lord Frederick Cavendish following his murder in Phoenix Park by the Irish National Invincibles in May 1882.
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