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Langcliffe and Stackhouse

This view shows the hamlet of Stackhouse in the Ribble Valley located just North of Settle. The group of buildings in the centre of the picture belong to the Langcliffe paper mill and nearby aravan site. The flat summit of Ingleborough can just be seen in the middle of the horizon.

Photographed from the slopes of High Hill, above Settle.

Penyghent and Fountains Fell

Penyghent, height 684 metres, photographed from the summit of Warrendale Knotts about 1 mile East of Settle. Fountains Fell , height 668 metres, can be seen on the skyline on the right of the picture. In the foreground is a small area of limestone pavement.

The famous archaeological site of Victoria Cave is located in the area of shadow in the middle right of the picture.

Malham Cove.

OS grid reference SD 898641

In historic times a waterfall cascaded over the edge of this 286 ft high escarpment. Behind the cove is a long dry valley which lends support to the claim. The stream in the foreground emerges from underground passages at the foot of the cove.

Janet's Foss, Near Malham

This pretty little waterfall is approximately one mile East of Malham Village, opposite Gordale Scar and only a short distance from the minor road.

Stainforth packhorse bridge

OS grid reference SD 818673

This ancient bridge, maintained by the National Trust, spans the River Ribble near Stainforth village.

Stainforth Foss

OS Grid reference SD 818672

Just below the packhorse bridge is a series of shallow falls and then a deeper gorge where the Ribble has cut back into the limestone outcrop.

The entrance gorge of the Ingleton Glens.

OS Grid reference SD 694735

The limestone strata here are steeply inclined due to the proximity of the Craven Faults.

The Ingleton Falls walk is an interesting excursion along the valleys of the River Doe and the River Twiss. There is ample car parking at the entrance to the falls in Ingleton village. A charge is made for entry.

Allow a full morning afternoon to do the walk which is moderately strenuous.

Thornton Force

OS Grid reference SD 695753

(In Yorkshire and in other parts of Northern England a waterfall is called a Foss or Force e.g. High Force, Teesdale)

Thornton Force lies at the head of the Ingleton Glens. Here the Kingsdale Beck flows over a classic geological section. The white Carboniferous Limestone lies unconformably over much older folded rocks which belong to the Ingletonian series. An unconformity represents a gap in the sequence of deposition of the sediments and in this case the break represents many millions of years.