Settle is a Town in the county of North Yorkshire.
There are great places to visit near Settle including some great waterfalls, ruins, historic monuments, hiking areas, villages, rivers and streams, towns, caves, limestone pavements, geological features, mountains, cities, historic buildings, hills, castles, country parks, parks, gardens and ancient sites.
Don't miss Catrigg Force, Lockin Garth Force, Whitfield Gill Force, Slape Wath Waterfall, Mill Gill Force, Cotter Force, and Aysgill Force's waterfalls if visiting the area around Settle.
There are a number of ruins near Settle including Bolton Abbey, Byland Abbey, Easby Abbey (ruin), Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), Trig Point on Warrendale Knotts, and Old Limekiln at Blua Crags.
The area around Settle boasts some of the best historic monuments including Bolton Abbey, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains).
There are a number of hiking areas near Settle including Deepdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Swilla Glen, Baxenghyll Gorge, and Raven Ray.
Settle has some unmissable villages nearby like Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, Malham, West Burton, Bainbridge, and Aysgarth.
There are a number of rivers and streams near Settle including Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton.
Settle's best nearby towns can be found at Hawes, Skipton, Grassington, Richmond, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, and Settle.
There are a several good caves in the Settle area like Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Janet's Cave, Gaping Gill, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave.
Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement are great places to visit near Settle if you like limestone pavements.
Settle has some unmissable geological features nearby like Malham Cove, and Brimham Rocks.
The area close to Settle boasts some of the best mountains including Ingleborough.
Cities to visit near Settle include York, and Ripon.
York Minster, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge are great places to visit near Settle if you like historic buildings.
There are a number of hills near Settle including Addlebrough, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, Sugar Loaf Hill, and Attermire Scar.
The area around Settle features a number of interesting castles including Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle.
Brimham Rocks is one of Settle's best, nearby country parks to visit in Settle.
The area around Settle boasts some of the best parks including Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Studley Royal Water Garden.
Places near Settle feature a number of interesting gardens including Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden.
The area around Settle features a number of interesting ancient sites including Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave.
Settle History
There are some historic monuments around Settle:
Places to see near Settle
History of Settle
During the English Civil War, the Cliffords, the lords of the manor were Royalists, but their subjects were not. John Lambert of Calton in Malhamdale, was a general in Cromwell’s army and his troops camped at Settle in August 1651 while on the road to an encounter in Lancaster. Daniel Defoe wrote “Settle is the capital of an isolated little kingdom of its own surrounded by barren hills.”:p.163 Because of its remoteness Settle saw mostly local commerce. The old roads were pack horse trails:p.105 and drovers’ roads along hilltops:p.6 because the valley was soft and swampy before field drainage and the dredging of stream estuaries.:p.105 In the 1700s textile industrialists supported by traders and landowners campaigned for a turnpike to connect with growing industrial towns. The minute book for the Keighley and Kendal Turnpike Trust shows that most investors were mill owners from the Giggleswick district. In 1827 the trust, having miscalculated the cost of road maintenance, was in debt by £34,000.:p.172 When in 1877 the trust was terminated, the investors received on average 54% of their deposit. The investors had benefited in that Settle was now well connected and its cotton mills boomed. The mill owners imported coal and, like the heavy industries that exported agricultural lime and sandstone masonry, welcomed the turnpike for access via carrier waggons to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal at Gargrave. The first passenger stagecoach arrived in 1763. The Mail Coach was running regularly in 1786. The Union coach for passengers ran each way on alternate days in the early 1800s, and daily by 1840.:p.5
