Everything about Horton In Ribblesdale totally explained
Horton in Ribblesdale is a small
village in
Ribblesdale in the county of
North Yorkshire, on the
Settle–Carlisle Railway to the west of
Pen-y-ghent.
Its population in the
2001 census was 498 people in 211 households.
Visitor attractions
Horton in Ribblesdale is the traditional starting (and finishing) point for the
Three Peaks walk. The
Pennine Way and
Ribble Way long-distance footpaths pass through the village.
The region is also popular for
caving and potholing, with Alum Pot and the Long Churn cave system just to the north of the village, and Hull Pot and Hunt Pot on the western side of Pen-y-ghent in England.
The
Three Peaks walk is an endurance challenge of 26 miles distance, including 5,000 feet of ascent and descent of the mountains of Pen-y-ghent,
Whernside and
Ingleborough all to be completed in under 12 hours which attracts thousands of walkers each year. The circuit is also used for a well established
fell race in April, while the gruelling
Three Peaks cyclo-cross race also visits the three summits in the course of a longer 38-mile route on the last Sunday in September. Participants in both the running and cycling race regularly achieve winning times of around three hours, and sometimes both races in the year are won by the same competitor.
Local architecture and amenities
The village has two pubs,
The Crown Hotel and
The Golden Lion, a village store and post office as well as a cafe and tea rooms. One villager has a radio telescope.
The village church is dedicated to St Oswald. It has a complete
Norman nave, south door and
tub-font and is the most complete of the Norman churches built in the Yorkshire dales after the
Norman conquest and the
Harrying of the North that followed. The square tower was built later. The
lychgates to enter the churchyard are roofed with huge slabs of Horton
slate.
Other buildings in Horton are typical of the area. Seventeenth-century
yeomens' farmhouses can be found on the edge of the village, and later cottages can be seen nearer the centre of the village. In the 1870s the new railway prompted the building of Victorian
terraced housing. Later the local quarrying of
limestone led to the building of housing for the quarrymen.
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