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Dales High Way
A Dales High Way is a long-distance footpath in northern England. It is long and runs from Saltaire in West Yorkshire to Appleby-in-Westmorland, Cumbria, roughly parallel to the line of the Settle and Carlisle Railway. Route The Dales High Way starts at Saltaire, a World Heritage Site model village in the City of Bradford, West Yorkshire, built by Titus Salt on the River Aire. It climbs up over Ilkley Moor, passing the Twelve Apostles stone circle and the Swastika Stone, and drops down to the outskirts of Addingham before rising to follow high ground south of the A65 road, including Skipton Moor, and then enters the town of Skipton. From here it passes through Flasby and Hetton and crosses the inlet to Winterburn Reservoir before climbing to cross the watershed between Wharfedale and Airedale and drop to the bridge below Gordale Scar. It rises to the limestone pavement above Malham Cove, where it crosses the Pennine Way and continues across Kirkby Fell on the way to Settle ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England
England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It shares Anglo-Scottish border, a land border with Scotland to the north and England–Wales border, another land border with Wales to the west, and is otherwise surrounded by the North Sea to the east, the English Channel to the south, the Celtic Sea to the south-west, and the Irish Sea to the west. Continental Europe lies to the south-east, and Ireland to the west. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census, the population was 56,490,048. London is both List of urban areas in the United Kingdom, the largest city and the Capital city, capital. The area now called England was first inhabited by modern humans during the Upper Paleolithic. It takes its name from the Angles (tribe), Angles, a Germanic peoples, Germanic tribe who settled du ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Titus Salt
Sir Titus Salt, 1st Baronet (20 September 1803 – 29 December 1876) was an English manufacturer, politician and philanthropist in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, who is best known for having built Salt's Mill, a large textile mill, together with the attached village of Saltaire, West Yorkshire. Early life Titus Salt was born in 1803 to Daniel Salt, a drysalter, and Grace Smithies, daughter of Isaac Smithies, of Old Manor House, Morley where the Salt family were to live. Titus attended a local dame school and then Batley Grammar School. In 1813, the Salt family moved to a farm at Crofton near Wakefield and Daniel became a sheep farmer. Titus attended “the day school connected with Salem Chapel” in Wakefield and later, the grammar school. Titus made a long-standing friend at the day school - his teacher, Enoch Harrison. In 1853, Harrison was a guest at Salt's Mill's opening banquet on Salt's 50th birthday. Career Salt's first job was as a wool-stapler in Wak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malham Cove
Malham Cove is a large curved limestone formation north of the village of Malham, North Yorkshire, England. It was formed by a waterfall carrying meltwater from glaciers at the end of the last Last glacial period, Ice Age more than 12,000 years ago. Today it is a well-known beauty spot and rock climbing crag within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. A large limestone pavement lies above the cove. Geology The cove was formed by a large Ice Age river that fell at this point as a List of waterfalls by type#Cataract, cataract. The water drop was high and more than wide. The water flowing over the waterfall created the curved shape of the cove because the lip was more heavily eroded than the sides. A stream named Malham Beck originates on Malham Moor and emerges from a cave at the bottom of the cove. This is a different stream from the stream that flows out of Malham Tarn north of the cove. This latter stream goes underground at 'Water Sinks' about before the top of the cove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gordale Scar
Gordale Scar is a limestone ravine north-east of Malham, North Yorkshire, England. It contains two waterfalls and has overhanging limestone cliffs over high. The gorge could have been formed by water from melting glaciers or a cavern collapse. The stream flowing through the scar is Gordale Beck, which on leaving the gorge flows over Janet's Foss before joining Malham Beck downstream to form the River Aire. A right of way leads up the gorge, but requires climbing approximately of tufa at the lower waterfall. Notable visitors William Wordsworth wrote in the sonnet ''Gordale'', "let thy feet repair to Gordale chasm, terrific as the lair where the young lions couch". James Ward created a large and imaginative painting of it that can be seen in Tate Britain. J. M. W. Turner also painted a picture of it in 1816, also to be seen in Tate Britain. Colin Tudge references this feature and James Ward's painting in his book ''The Time Before History''. The waterfall was used as a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airedale
Airedale is a valley, or Dale (landform), dale, in North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, England. It is named after the River Aire, which flows through it. The upper valley, from Malham Cove to Airton, is known as Malhamdale, named after the village of Malham. At Airton the valley widens and becomes Airedale proper. The river flows past Skipton on to Keighley, Bingley, Shipley, West Yorkshire, Shipley, and Leeds. Airedale, in conjunction with the Ribble Valley, provides low-altitude passes from Yorkshire to Lancashire through the Aire Gap. It is therefore an important transport route and was a strategically important area historically. History The upper Aire valley was formed 12,000 years ago by a retreating glacier. A moraine formed in the Cononley area and the lake stretched as far north as Gargrave. Colonisation by man developed later on, especially during the Iron Age. The peoples that occupied the Aire Valley (and much of north eastern England) were called Brigantes by t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wharfedale
Wharfedale ( ) is one of the Yorkshire Dales. It is situated at source in North Yorkshire and then flows into West Yorkshire and forms the upper valley of the River Wharfe. Towns and villages in Wharfedale (downstream, from west to east) include Buckden, North Yorkshire, Buckden, Kettlewell, Conistone, Grassington, Hebden, North Yorkshire, Hebden, Bolton Abbey, North Yorkshire, Bolton Abbey, Addingham, Ilkley, Burley-in-Wharfedale, Otley, Pool-in-Wharfedale, Arthington, Collingham, West Yorkshire, Collingham and Wetherby. Beyond Wetherby, the valley opens out and becomes part of the Vale of York. The section from the river's source to around Addingham is known as ''Upper Wharfedale''. It lies in North Yorkshire and the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The first or so is known as Langstrothdale, including the settlements of Beckermonds, Yockenthwaite and Hubberholme, famous for its church, the resting place of the writer J. B. Priestley. As it turns southwards, the Wharfe then run ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Winterburn Reservoir
Winterburn Reservoir is located near the village of Winterburn in Malhamdale, North Yorkshire, England. It was constructed between 1885 and 1893 by Leeds civil engineers Henry Rofe and Edward Filliter to help maintain levels on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. The cost of construction was estimated at £45,000. Its capacity is and covers an area of In order to maintain the water levels of Winterburn and Eshton Beck, there is a compensation scheme. Around of water are discharged per day. The amount of compensation water is measured in the gauge house below the reservoir and further downstream at Holme Bridge lock, Gargrave. In order to maintain the aquatic life in the reservoir, this is monitored daily, and in times of drought the water discharged into Winterburn Beck is reduced. Winterburndischarge.jpg, Discharge portal into Winterburn Beck Winterburn valve.jpg, Twin cast iron valve capstans See also * Canals of the United Kingdom * History of the British canal system ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hetton, North Yorkshire
Hetton is a small Dales village in the civil parish of Hetton-cum-Bordley, in the county of North Yorkshire, England, situated north of Skipton by the B6265 road. It is the largest settlement in the parish of Hetton-cum-Bordley. The population of the former civil parish of Hetton taken at the 2011 Census was 155. History Nearby places include Cracoe, Flasby, Rylstone, Threapland and Winterburn. Hetton was mentioned in the Domesday Book as belonging to ''Stuartcol'' (or ''Swartkoll'') in 1066, but given to Roger de Poitou by 1086. The name means the farm on the heathland (from Old English ''hæth tun''). Hetton was historically part of the wapentake of Staincliffe East, and within the Skipton Rural District. For administrative purpose, it formed a township with Bordley in the ancient parish of Burnsall in the West Riding of Yorkshire. In the late 19th century it became a separate township, and it became a separate civil parish in 1866. It was transferred to the new co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flasby
Flasby is a hamlet in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. It is one of the two settlements, with Winterburn, in the civil parish of Flasby with Winterburn. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 80 in 2012, measured at 207 in the 2011 Census. Flasby was first mentioned, as ''Flatebi'', in the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086. The toponym is of Old Norse origin, meaning "the farmstead of a man called Flat" (the same origin as Flaxby). Flasby with Winterburn was a township in the ancient parish of Gargrave in Staincliffe Wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It became a separate civil parish in 1866, and was transferred to the new county of North Yorkshire in 1974. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the district of Craven, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council. Flasby Hall is a large house built in 1843–44 and a Grade II listed building. In 1848 the Flasby Sword, an Iron Age sword and scabbard, was discovered in the grounds. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A65 Road
The A65 is a major road in England. It runs north west from Leeds in West Yorkshire via Kirkstall, Horsforth, Yeadon, Guiseley, Ilkley and Skipton, west of Settle, Ingleton and Kirkby Lonsdale before terminating at Kendal in Cumbria. Bypasses Listed from south to north, beginning at Leeds: * The £5.5 million dual-carriageway Burley in Wharfedale Bypass opened in April 1995. * The £4 million Addingham bypass opened in January 1991. * The £2.8 million Draughton Bypass opened in December 1991. * The north section of the £16.4 million Skipton Bypass opened in December 1981, which is part of the A59. * North of Skipton, where the road meets the busy A629 from Bradford, there have been plans for a bypass around Gargrave, which is where the road crosses the Pennine Way. * The £8.5 million Settle & Giggleswick Bypass opened in December 1988. * The Clapham bypass is the earliest of these bypasses. The National Archives have a file "West Riding ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Addingham
Addingham (formerly Haddincham , Odingehem 1086)Mills, A. D. (2003). ', Encyclopedia.com is a village and civil parish in the City of Bradford West Yorkshire, in West Yorkshire, England. It is situated near the A65 road, A65, south-east of Skipton, west of Ilkley, north-west of Bradford and around north-west of Leeds. Historic counties of England, Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is located in the valley of the River Wharfe and is only from the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The name is thought to mean "homestead associated with a man called Adda", although in the ''Domesday Book'', the village was referred to as "Ediham", which may have referred to Earl Edwin of Bolton Abbey. The 2001 census numbered Addingham's population at 3,599, increasing to 3,730 at the 2011 Census. The area around Addingham is thought to have been populated from at least Bronze Age times, indicated by the 'cup and ring mark, cup and ring' carved stones that can be found on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swastika Stone
The Swastika Stone is a stone adorned with a design that resembles a swastika, located on the Woodhouse Crag on the northern edge of Ilkley Moor in West Yorkshire, England. The design has a double outline with four curved arms and an attached S-shape, each enclosing a so-called 'cup' mark, the like of which can be found on other stones nearby. The stone is not verifiably dated; however the academic consensus suggests it to have been carved sometime around the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Alternative views have claimed the design is rare in the British Isles, so its close similarity to Camunian rose designs in Lombardy/Italy has led some to theorise that the two are connected. In fact, the troops stationed in Ilkley during the Roman occupation were recruited from the Celtic Lingones. This tribe was native to Gaul, but in around 400 BC, some migrated across the Alps The Alps () are some of the highest and most extensive mountain ranges in Europe, stretching approxima ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
