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Mother Shipton's Cave (or "Old Mother Shipton's Cave") is at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England, near the River Nidd. Nearby is a petrifying well, also known as a dropping well. [1] The latter is the oldest tourist attraction to charge a fee in England, and has been operated since 1630. [2] The water of the well is so rich in sulphate and ...
The petrifying well at Knaresborough, North Yorkshire. Notable examples of petrifying wells in England are the spring at Mother Shipton's Cave in Knaresborough and Matlock Bath, in Derbyshire. In Ireland, such wells were noted by John Rutty on Howth Head, [1] among other locations.
The earliest account of Mother Shipton's prophecies was published in 1641, eighty years after her death. The story goes that the document of Mother Shipton's life was recorded by a woman named Joane Waller [14] who heard the story as a young girl and transcribed it as Mother Shipton spoke of her life. Mother Shipton never wrote anything down or ...
Mother Shipton is a mostly mythical character, who supposedly foretold the death of Cardinal Wolsey in 1530. [2] Charles Hindley, a nineteenth-century bookseller, created a prophetic poem that he claimed to be by Shipton. [9] This poem told of "Carriages without horses" and air planes, as well as predicting the end of the world in 1881. [10]
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Shipton-on-Cherwell and Whitehill Farm Quarries is a 30-hectare (74-acre) geological Site of Special Scientific Interest north of Kidlington in Oxfordshire. [1] [2] It is a Geological Conservation Review site. [3] [4] This site exposes a lithostratigraphic succession dating to the Bathonian stage of the Middle Jurassic, around 167 million years ...