The Stray

The Stray is a long region of open parkland in the focal point of Harrogate, North Yorkshire, involving 200 sections of land of adjoining open land connecting the spa town's therapeudic springs and wells. The touching region of land, not which is all authoritatively assigned piece of The Stray, frames an around U-molded belt from the Cenotaph on the North West purpose of the U, down the A61, along a more extensive southern belt of fields, encasing the working of Church Square, and up toward the North East tip of the U at The Granby. The Stray incorporates the site of Tewit Well, set apart by a vault.

The Stray was authoritatively put aside as an open stop in the Duchy of Lancaster Commissioners' extraordinary Award of 1778, which pursued the 1770 Act of Enclosure. The Award guaranteed open right of access to the land connecting the wells and committing an extended length of land for those taking the fix to walk and exercise. The Stray is generally the site of motorcades and community occasions. For instance, at the Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria in 1887 the general population of Harrogate cooked a bull for the event and drank 500 gallons of brew. Amid World War II trenches were delved on The Stray in dread that German planes may utilize the open land as a runway.