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Here are the answers to the Yorkshire Dales (Nidderdale) puzzle trail.

1.

Where can you learn about the quest for lead?

The answer is 'Cockhill' on the Bewerley Industrial Heritage trail. See illustrated map information board opposite the entrance to the long stay car park in Pateley Bridge.

2.

Where are J.G.L. & D.N.L. remembered?

Clue: Don't get too brassed off.

The answer is 'The Bandstand' by the bowling green in Pateley Bridge. The initials are those of Joe Grange Longster and Dorothy Nancy Longster, inscribed on the bandstand.

3.

What local position did Joe Stoney of Bewerley hold?

The answer is 'Centenary Committee Chairman' of the Nidderdale Agricultural Society in 1995. He unveiled the plaque commemorating the centenary show that year, located by the entrance to the show ground in Pateley Bridge.

4.

What building does this decorate?

The answer is 'Sunflowers Day Nursery', on the road leading out of Pateley Bridge towards the Dale.

5.

Locate a crimson wheel. What is the name of the beck nearby?

The answer is 'Foster'. The waterwheel is in the grounds of the Bridge Inn. Gate pillars astride a road leading from the car park are inscribed with the name 'Foster Beck Holiday Lodges'.

6.

What building do you find next to this?

The answer is 'Gouthwaite Lodge', at the entrance to the reservoir grounds & dam.

7.

In which village do you find this?

The answer is 'Ramsgill'. It is the remains of the village cross in fron tof the Yorke Arms Hotel.

8.

What was the alternative name for St James' church in Wath?

The answer is 'the tin tabernacle'. Historical information about Wath is detailed on a display in the stone bus shelter by the bridge. The church itself was closed in the 1960's.

9.

Where do you find a very small red steam train in Wath?

The answer is 'Rhyllstone House'. The building's name plate depicts a steam train.

10.

What is brown & white, but on the other side black & white?

Clue: He won't run until he hears the shot.

The answer is 'the gun dog' on the Sportsmans Arms pub sign. On one side it's painted black & white. On the other it's coloured brown & white.

11.

What reconstruction date lies under a brush?

The answer is '1880' A building in Wath, 'rebuilt 1880', is topped off with a weathervane depicting a leaping fox that sports a fine long brush (tail).

12.

An ancient two-seater that drives like the wind. What is its purpose?

The answer is 'a weathervane'. This example is on an outbuilding by Gouthwaite Reservoir Nature Reserve.

13.

Younger than five years, if a thoroughbred. Otherwise, four.

Clue: A house name.

The answer is 'Colt' House, by the road to Ramsgill.

14.

Where do you find a gable end with 3 glass-free windows, apparantly lowered to ground level?

The answer is 'the churchyard' in Ramsgill. Part of its wall appears to have once been the gable-end of a building.

15.

Your flock will remain here until you pay a fine for their release.

The answer is 'The Pinfold' in Ramsgill, close by the village hall.

16.

On what building is this?

The answer is 'Ramsgill Village Hall'.

17.

What is commemorated here?

The answer is 'The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953'. This is the village hall at Ramsgill.

18.

Which ramblers club was Edna a founder member of?

The answer is 'Harrogate'. Edna Swires is commemorated on a seat by the entrance to the village hall in Ramsgill.

19.

Where do you get to if you take the steep hill?

The answer is 'Masham'.

20.

Four 'SV's close together. How many 'WO's?

The answer is 'two'. A large collection of safety valve & water outlet markers are found together by the road in Lofthouse.

21.

What is called 'the Heart of Nidderdale'?

The answer is 'How Stean Gorge'. See sign at road junction between Lofthouse & Middlesmoor.

22.

Where else can you find Messrs. Lee & Holmes, apart from in Middlemoor?

The answer is 'Harrogate', according to the company sign on their works building.

23.

In what year was Middlesmoor school built?

The answer is '1807'. See engraving on the old school building (MDCCCVII).

24.

Refreshment, appropriately at the top of the hill.

The answer is 'The Crown Hotel' Middlemoor.

25.

What else can you often find in the churchyard at Middlemoor apart from gravestones?

The answer is 'Sheep', which are allowed to graze there.

How did you do?

5.	Locate a crimson wheel. What is the name of the beck nearby?	The answer is 'Foster'. The waterwheel is in the grounds of the Bridge Inn. Gate pillars astride a road leading from the car park are inscribed with the name 'Foster Beck Holiday Lodges'.
6.	What building do you find next to this?	The answer is 'Gouthwaite Lodge', at the entrance to the reservoir grounds & dam.
7.	In which village do you find this?	The answer is 'Ramsgill'. It is the remains of the village cross in fron tof the Yorke Arms Hotel.
8.	What was the alternative name for St James' church in Wath?	The answer is 'the tin tabernacle'. Historical information about Wath is detailed on a display in the stone bus shelter by the bridge. The church itself was closed in the 1960's.
9.	Where do you find a very small red steam train in Wath?	The answer is 'Rhyllstone House'. The building's name plate depicts a steam train.

15.	Your flock will remain here until you pay a fine for their release.	The answer is 'The Pinfold' in Ramsgill, close by the village hall.
16.	On what building is this?	The answer is 'Ramsgill Village Hall'.
17.	What is commemorated here?	The answer is 'The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953'. This is the village hall at Ramsgill.
18.	Which ramblers club was Edna a founder member of?	The answer is 'Harrogate'. Edna Swires is commemorated on a seat by the entrance to the village hall in Ramsgill.
19.	Where do you get to if you take the steep hill?	The answer is 'Masham'.
20.	Four 'SV's close together. How many 'WO's?	The answer is 'two'. A large collection of safety valve & water outlet markers are found together by the road in Lofthouse.

21.	What is called 'the Heart of Nidderdale'?	The answer is 'How Stean Gorge'. See sign at road junction between Lofthouse & Middlesmoor.
22.	Where else can you find Messrs. Lee & Holmes, apart from in Middlemoor?	The answer is 'Harrogate', according to the company sign on their works building.
23.	In what year was Middlesmoor school built?	The answer is '1807'. See engraving on the old school building (MDCCCVII).
24.	Refreshment, appropriately at the top of the hill.	The answer is 'The Crown Hotel' Middlemoor.
25.	What else can you often find in the churchyard at Middlemoor apart from gravestones?	The answer is 'Sheep', which are allowed to graze there.