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Place Names – Ugglebarnby

Some place names sound less like an actual place and more like a character from a story.

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Place Names – Buttercrambe

Some place names sound less like an actual place and more like a character from a story.

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Place Names – Terrington

Some place names sound less like an actual place and more like a character from a story.

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Visit Sherburn-in-Elmet here.

Place Names – Staithes

Some place names sound more like a character than somewhere you’d live.

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Beowulf vs Grendel

‘Time and again Beowulf’s warriors… kept striking out on every side… When they joined the struggle there was something they could not have known at the time, that no blade on earth, no blacksmith’s art could ever damage their demon opponent.’

– From Seamus Heaney’s verse translation of Beowulf.

Mysterious Rocks

This is an illustration of a scene from the book ‘Shine’ by Jill Paton Walsh. It’s a fantastic young adult science fiction story published in the 80s, about families settling on a new planet. In this scene the children discover the mysterious rocks they have been using as a playground are not rocks after all…

Stuck in the mud

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Dragon Hunting