
What is recorded here
Children entertainment area, Mother Shipton's Cave, Knaresborough is shown and named in a reusable Geograph picture. The saved point is the picture's recorded map point.
Mother Shipton's Cave is a limestone cave formed through natural dissolution processes typical of the Carboniferous Limestone in the Yorkshire Dales region. The cave is associated with local folklore surrounding the legendary figure Mother Shipton, a 16th-century prophetess from Knaresborough.
The picture record does not grant public access. Use signed public paths and do not enter private land without permission.
Places near here
The Entrance to Mother Shipton's CaveCave or cavern · 117 yd
River Nidd at Mother Shipton's Cave, upstreamCave or cavern · 155 yd
Petrifying wellWaterfall · 197 yd
Knaresborough, Mother Shipton Trail: The Wishing WellOld or holy well · 201 yd
Castle Mill CottageListed building · 214 yd
Petrifying Well SpringSpring · 218 yd
Castle Mill Weaving ShedListed building · 223 yd
Knaresborough War MemorialMemorial · 319 yd
Tudor Courthouse MuseumMuseum · 366 yd
Knaresborough CastleScheduled monument · 368 yd
Old Flax Mill plaqueMemorial · 512 yd
High BridgeScheduled monument · 532 ydOther information
Photo: Jeff Gogarty · CC BY-SA 2.0