Category Archives: Chapel Le Dale Area

Southerscales

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 […]

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Ribbledale Viaduct

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 […]

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Ribblehead Quarry

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 […]

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Selside

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 […]

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