Brimham Rocks 1

About 30 minutes from Knaresborough is Brimham Rocks. Many of the formations have names, and I think this one is The Anvil.

The last trompe, Knaresborough

… at least for the moment, as we probably didn't see them all.

Another Knaresborough trompe-l'œil

One more to go.

Knaresborough pub punctuation

A missing apostrophe is not the end of the world.

Down by the riverside, Knaresborough

… this time showing the viaduct from the other side.

Knaresborough Castle and Jubilee border

The ruins of the castle mentioned yesterday can be made out behind the trees. 

Cavalier, Roundhead and anachronistic Union Flag, Knaresborough

This amusing example of trompe l'œil refers to the English Civil War 1642-49, which saw Parliamentary forces under the unjustly maligned Oliver Cromwell taking on the Royalist armies of Charles I, who finally lost his head after the cessation of hostilities. 

Knaresborough was taken by the Roundheads, as the Parliamentarians were known, in 1646 and the castle destroyed in 1648, most of the stone being used to build town centre houses.