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Grassington is a town [4] and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.The population of the parish at the 2011 Census was 1,126. [1] Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and now in the lieutenancy area of North Yorkshire, [5] the village is situated in Wharfedale, about 8 miles (10 km) north-west from Bolton Abbey, and is surrounded by limestone scenery.
Grassington is a civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It contains 29 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List for England. Of these, one is listed at Grade II*, the middle of the three grades, and the others are at Grade II, the lowest grade.
The majority of the dales are within the Yorkshire Dales National Park, created in 1954. [1] The exception is the area around Nidderdale, which forms the separate Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The landscape of the Yorkshire Dales consists of sheltered glacial valleys separated by exposed moorland. [2]
Grassington Hall is a historic building in Grassington, a town in North Yorkshire, in England.. The manor house was probably built in the 1280s for Robert de Plumpton. From that period survives what is now the north-east range, including several of the original windows.
The railway company was authorised by act of Parliament, the Yorkshire Dales Railway (Skipton to Grassington) Act 1897 (60 & 61 Vict. c. cxcv), dated 6 August 1897 after several previous attempts to open a line to Grassington including one which would have driven eastwards from Gargrave. The first sod was cut on 7 June 1900 and the single-track ...
The Yorkshire Dales National Park is a 2,178 km 2 (841 sq mi) national park in England which covers most of the Yorkshire Dales, the Howgill Fells, and the Orton Fells. The Nidderdale area of the Yorkshire Dales is not within the national park, and has instead been designated a national landscape .
The Dales Way is an 78.5-mile (126.3 km) long-distance footpath in Northern England, from (south-east to north-west) Ilkley, West Yorkshire, to Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] This walk was initially devised by the West Riding Ramblers' Association with the 'leading lights' being Colin Speakman and Tom Wilcock (Footpath ...
The bridge carries Station Road, the B6265, [3] while the Dales Way passes its north-eastern end. [1] The bridge is built of gritstone, and consists of four segmental arches with recessed voussoirs, and is about 50 metres (160 ft) long. It has pointed cutwaters carried up as pilasters, a string course, a band, and a parapet with slightly ridged ...