Town Gas Lighting plaque

Town Gas Lighting plaque is a memorial in Knaresborough, Harrogate District, England. Town Gas Lighting plaque is situated nearby to the waterfall Petrifying well, as well as near Mother Shipton’s Museum and Gift Shop.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Mother Shipton’s Cave and Knaresborough Castle.

Mother Shipton’s Cave

Forest

Photo: Sic19, CC0.

Mother Shipton's Cave is at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England, near the River Nidd. Nearby is a petrifying well, also known as a dropping well. The latter is the oldest tourist attraction to charge a fee in England, and has been operated since 1630.

Knaresborough Castle

Photo: redvers, CC BY 2.0.

Knaresborough Castle is a ruined fortress overlooking the River Nidd in the town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England. Knaresborough Castle is situated 1,100 feet north of Town Gas Lighting plaque.

Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag

Church

Photo: redvers, CC BY 2.0.

The early-fifteenth century Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag is located in an old quarry on Abbey Road beside the Nidd Gorge at Knaresborough and is an early 15th-century-chapel cut out of the sandstone of the river gorge cliff face. Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag is situated 830 feet southeast of Town Gas Lighting plaque.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Calcutt and Starbeck.

Calcutt

Village

Photo: Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Calcutt is a village in the county of North Yorkshire, England. Until 1974 it was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Borough of Harrogate, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.

Starbeck

Suburb

Photo: Mel Stubbs, Public domain.

Starbeck is a village and suburb of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England. The population of Starbeck Ward taken at the 2011 census was 6,226. It has many facilities, including Starbeck railway station, which serves the Harrogate Line.

Farnham

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Farnham is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated 2 miles north of Knaresborough. Farnham is situated 2½ miles north of Town Gas Lighting plaque.

Town Gas Lighting plaque

Type: Memorial
Inscription: “Knaresborough was one of the first towns to have good street lighting from Sept. 1824, thanks to the improvement Commissioners and their Engineer John Malham. The first gasholder was here at Castle Ings with its Retort House on Waterside ...”
Category: historic site
Location: Knaresborough, Harrogate District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.00406° or 54° 0′ 15″ north

Longitude

-1.46896° or 1° 28′ 8″ west

Open location code

9C6W2G3J+JC

OpenStreetMap ID

node 9917524903

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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