Askrigg, Market Place 1906
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More about this scene
It is seventy years before filming took place in the village for the James Herriot TV series 'All Creatures Great and Small'. Next to the water pump was the old bullring, part of the huge market that took place here until the 1795 turnpike bypassed Askrigg on its way to Hawes. The market cross dates from 1851. Behind it we can see the Wesleyan chapel (1878) and the Village Hall of 1906. The Apothecary's House is hidden behind the Sykes Commercial Hotel (left), which later became a temperance establishment - it was recently converted into the village store. Out of picture on the right is St Oswald's church, 14th-century and the largest in the Dale, with its cast windows imported from Munich in the 1880s.
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