Community
There are few amenities in the village save for the 17th century public house, "The Ship Inn". This Inn features in the book, "The Girl with the Red Suspenders" by Barbara Whitehead. The inn reopened in May 2009 after nine months of major refurbishment, following serious flooding when the River Ouse burst its banks.
The owners of the inn have reported a number of ghostly incidents.
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Famous quotes containing the word community:
“There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies.”
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965)
“When a language creates—as it does—a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.”
—Christopher Ricks (b. 1933)
“The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)