Calcutt, Yorkshire

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Calcutt
Yorkshire
West Riding

Entering Calcutt on road C274
Location
Grid reference: SE343557
Location: 53°59’56"N, 1°28’5"W
Data
Post town: Knaresborough
Postcode: HG5
Local Government
Council: Harrogate

Calcutt is a tiny village in the West Riding of Yorkshire, sitting at the edge of Knaresborough, separated from the town by the River Nidd and its precipitous gorge. To the west if Harrogate.

A tourist attraction, Mother Shipton's Cave is in the wall of the gorge just north of Calcutt, and here too is a reputed 'petrifying well'.

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