Photographs of The Yorkshire Dales & Elizabethan Manor House

Greeting Steemians,

I took these photographs with an IPhone 5, the first picture was taken in the beautiful Yorkshire Dales, close to the Pennine Bridleway.

This is Oakwell Hall, an Elizabethan manor house situated fairly close to where I live in West Yorkshire. The house is set in 110 acre of beautiful meadowland, and borders on an old colliery where ancient lithified sea ripples can be seen. Interesting to think that long ago this whole area was a sea bed.

In the 19th century, Oakwell hall became a girls school, and a close friend of Charlotte Brontë studied here. Charlotte Brontë visited Oakwell Hall and it became the inspiration for a manor house called Fieldhead in here book "Shirley".

To the rear of Oakwell hall, lies a small secluded knot garden.

View from the riverbank at Pool-in-Wharfedale, situtated on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, this spot is renown for great Grayling and Trout fishing. I can't vouch for that though, as unfortunately, I returned home without catching a single fish! I did get a nice tan though from sitting in the sun all day.