Ripon Workhouse is the city's newest museum, with restored vagrants' wards from 1877 showing the treatment of paupers in Yorkshire workhouses and includes a Victorian Hard Times Gallery. Spend time in Ripon goal, a Victorian prison with cells now converted to displays of crime and punishment, imprisonment and law enforcement over recent centuries. Situated 100 yards from the entrance to the Valley Gardens and Royal Pump Room Museum, the Mercer Art Gallery is home to the District's superb collection of Fine Art. Housed in Harrogate's premiere Spa building and site of Europe's strongest Sulphur Well, The Royal Pump Room Museum tells the story of Harrogate as a Spa. Knaresborough's royal castle stands towering over the River Nidd, a symbol of the wealth and authority of Medieval Kings.
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Distances by road will be longer. The Boar's Head is one of the Great Inns of England and Winner of the Cesar Award for Excellence in the Good Food Guide 1999. The Devonshire Arms is a traditional Country Estate Hotel in the Yorkshire Dales, bordering the beautiful River Wharfe. The Old Swan Hotel is situated within acres of garden close to the centre of the historic and beautiful town of Harrogate. The bedrooms are en suite and tastefully furnished and decorated.