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A hidden gem: discretely situated off the A661 Harrogate to Wetherby Road. Plumpton Rocks is a 30 acre parkland created in the 1760s by forming a man made lake against the backdrop of Millstone Grit rock formations and outcrops.
The artist JMW Turner visited Plumbton Rocks on his first tour of Yorkshire in 1797. The Earl of Harewood, who owned the rocks. commissioned Turner to paint the landscape. This was Turner’s first commission for a landscape in oils and gamble for the Earl. It was then known as Plompton Rocks and Harewood House holds two of Turner’s original paintings.
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A hidden gem: discretely situated off the A661 Harrogate to Wetherby Road. Plumpton Rocks is a 30 acre parkland created in the 1760s by forming a man made lake against the backdrop of Millstone Grit rock formations and outcrops.
The artist JMW Turner visited Plumbton Rocks on his first tour of Yorkshire in 1797. The Earl of Harewood, who owned the rocks. commissioned Turner to paint the landscape. This was Turner’s first commission for a landscape in oils and gamble for the Earl. It was then known as Plompton Rocks and Harewood House holds two of Turner’s original paintings.