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4 unusual facts about Wharfedale


Gilbert Briggs

Briggs built his first loudspeaker in the cellar of his home in Ilkley in the valley of the River Wharfe known as Wharfedale.

John Moorman

During the Second World War, Moorman resigned his living and worked as a farmhand in Wharfedale, and during this period completed his thesis Church Life in England in the Thirteenth Century for a doctorate of divinity (Cambridge University, 1945).

Keighley RUFC

With the formation of leagues in 1987, we began life alongside Wharfedale and Rotherham in league North East One, where we remained until reconstruction of leagues in 2000 placed us in Yorkshire league One.

Wharfedale

The first fifteen miles or so is known as Langstrothdale, including the settlements of Beckermonds, Yockenthwaite and Hubberholme, famous for its church, the resting place of the writer J. B. Priestley.


Bishopdale, North Yorkshire

The B6160 road follows the path of the river from its junction with the A684 to the parish boundary at Kidstones Pass where it continues on to Cray and Buckden in Upper Wharfedale.

Langcliffe Pot

Langcliffe Pot is a cave system on the slopes of Great Whernside in Upper Wharfedale, about 2 km SSE of Kettlewell in Yorkshire (UK NGR SD996711), and actually some 20 km NNE of Langcliffe village.

Tommy McGee

McGee was released by Leeds in 2010 and later that year was appointed head coach of Wharfedale.

William Wallace, Baron Wallace of Saltaire

Wallace is a trustee of the National Children's Choir; a member of Atlantic Community Advisory Board; Chair of the Board of Voces Cantabiles (professional choir, not-for-profit musical and educational work); is Vice President of the Upper Wharfedale Agricultural Society; and is a Member and Shareholder of the Wensleydale Railway Association.


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