Askrigg, Cross 1914
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In front of St Oswald's Church, the old market cross and bullring provide a central point for the delightful village of Askrigg. The beauty of the area was well known to Turner and Wordsworth, who were inspired by the waterfalls, Mill Gill and Whitfield. From 1908 the local corn mill produced electricity for the village using water power. The railway reached Askrigg in 1877, and a year later it was extended to Hawes and (via the Midland line) to Carlisle. Askrigg's Elizabethan Old Hall, centre, burnt down in 1935. The TV series All Creatures Great and Small was filmed here, which put the village back on the tourist trail in the 1970s.
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