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A taster of the Otley Ghost Tour
National World - LocalTV
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04/10/2024
With Halloween creeping up on us, here's a taster of the Otley Ghost Tour, a spine-chilling walk around LS21.
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Good evening and welcome to Otley's Marketplace. My name is Spindle Shanks
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McScrew and tonight I shall be your guide. Otley is a borough older than both
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Leeds and Bradford, having been founded in 620 AD. I will be teaching you about
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the ghosts that still linger in Otley's pubs, churches and courtyards to this
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very day. Keep your eyes peeled as we wander around for those who perhaps
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aren't quite there. The tour begins here at Otley's Jubilee Clock. We will then
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venture down Kirkgate after learning about the ghosts that hide on the shop
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floor of the British Heart Foundation charity shop. Then we will be
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approaching the Navvies Memorial, the only sculpture dedicated to the lives of
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the brave Navvies who were responsible for building the railway systems here in
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the UK. We will be then meandering around the churchyard of the parish church
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where we will learn about a ghostly anecdote that took place there and here
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at the Black Bull pub. The Black Bull is the oldest pub in Otley and is well
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known for having been, as they say, drunk dry by Oliver Cromwell's troops on the
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eve of the Battle of Marston in 1644. Regulars often go there and feel their
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faces stroked by invisible fingers. We will be then going down one of Otley's
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ginnels and into the Bay Horse Court where I will tell you about Charlotte,
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one of the former landladies who lost her beloved child one fateful evening to
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the clutches of the River Wharf. We will be then walking down towards the River
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Wharf after hearing about the voice recordings and the cells in Otley's
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infamous courthouse. If you haven't run off in a hurried fright by this point on
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the tour, we will be completing it with miserable tales of Margaret Clitheroe
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and then finishing outside Thomas Chippendale's former school and Otley's
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original police station. I hope you have enjoyed this taster of the Otley ghost
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tour and I hope to see you one of the coming weeks in the flesh in Otley town.
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Tours run every Saturday at half-past 6 and 8 p.m. They last an hour. Dogs are
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welcome if they are brave and children and humans are tolerated also.
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