As we enter another lockdown many of our activities have had to be postponed. Instead we are running talks online by inspirational speakers to keep everyone interested in the great outdoors. Come and hear about the Bird Girl and Black2Nature, Crossing the Empty Quarter – the world’s largest sand desert, Bee Keeping and the importance […]
Read More >1. A market has run in Settle since 1249 and still takes place every Tuesday. On one side of the Market Place are the six arches of the Shambles. The Town Hall was built in 1832, Ye Olde Naked Man dates back to 1663 and Ye Old Naked Woman is nearby in Langcliffe. The Victoria […]
Read More >1. Stainforth or ‘stony ford’ is named after the stepping stones across the river in the village. It was a prosperous farming community belonging to Sawley Abbey near Clitheroe. Signs of early fields can be seen on the terraces to the north of the village. In the 18th and 19th centuries the village became a […]
Read More >1. Several pubs in the area are called after the Craven Heifer. This was a real cow bred on the Duke of Devonshire’s estate at Bolton Abbey. She grew so big (312 stone, 11 feet long, 7 feet tall) that she was shown all over the country. A special doorway needed to be made to […]
Read More >1. The Church of St. Leonard is only 48 feet long and 20 feet wide. During the building of the Ribblehead viaduct more than 200 people from the shanty towns died and are buried in this churchyard. 4. Southerscales Nature Reserve, owned by Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, includes a huge limestone pavement which was sculptured by […]
Read More >1. Ribblehead Station is on the Settle Carlisle line, the last railway built in England in the 1870s by the Midland Railway Company. Along the 116 kilometre line there are 20 viaducts and 14 tunnels, one of which is the spectacular Ribblehead Viaduct. 2. Batty Green Shanty Town was constructed where the viaduct is now […]
Read More >1. The Quarry is now part of the Ingleborough National Nature Reserve, but began in the late 1800s to provide limestone for building the Settle Carlisle Railway. In 2000 it was donated by Hansons to Natural England, and has been left alone to see how nature reclaims it. 2. The stone bench recreates the Ingleborough […]
Read More >1. The River Ribble is very close to its source on Gayle Moor beyond Ribblehead. It is the only major Yorkshire river to flow west into the Irish Sea 121 kilometres away, and not east through the Humber Estuary into the North Sea. 2. It may be very muddy here but you are in classic […]
Read More >1. Swarth Moor is a rare lowland raised peatbog and Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI). Locals used to cut peat in early summer, leave it to dry and store it for fuel in the winter. Now the land is protected for the important wildlife habitats that are home to many rare and scarce plants […]
Read More >1. Clapham Church was originally built 800 years ago but the oldest part is the 15th century tower. It was rebuilt by the Farrer family of Ingleborough Hall in 1814. They also built the tunnels so that people using Thwaite Lane could not look into their grounds. 2. Thwaite Lane is an ancient route between […]
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