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6 unusual facts about Kirkdale


Kirkdale, North Yorkshire

Kirkdale is a valley in North Yorkshire, England, which along with Sleightholmedale makes up the larger Bransdale and carries the Hodge Beck from its moorland source near Cockayne to the River Dove and onto the River Rye in the Vale of Pickering.

Corallian Limestone which outcrops on the hills surrounding the Vale of Pickering runs across the region, and this appears as an aquifer in Kirkdale swallowing most of the water from Hodge Beck, which reappears further downstream.

McCafferty

The sentence was carried out on Saturday, 11 January 1862, in front of Kirkdale Gaol, at Liverpool.

Sarah Deane

The competition was judged by Brookside co-creator Colin McKeown and Jimmy McGovern, which resulted in Deane being given further opportunities to write on projects under McGovern's tutelage through McKeown's company LA Productions based at Liverpool Film Academy in Kirkdale, Liverpool.

The Squares

With local press interest growing the band found themselves with a string of gigs as far afield as Kirkdale and Speke, but no bass player.

William Halsall

William Formby Halsall (born 1841) was a marine painter born in Kirkdale, England.



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