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.
Settle's best nearby waterfalls can be found at Catrigg Force, Lockin Garth Force, Whitfield Gill Force, Slape Wath Waterfall, Mill Gill Force, Cotter Force, and Aysgill Force.
The area around Settle features a number of interesting ruins 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.
There are a number of historic monuments near Settle 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.
Don't miss Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, Malham, West Burton, Bainbridge, and Aysgarth's villages if visiting the area around Settle.
Settle has some unmissable rivers and streams nearby like Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton.
Towns to visit near Settle include 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.
Settle has some unmissable limestone pavements nearby like Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement.
Malham Cove, and Brimham Rocks are great places to visit near Settle if you like geological features.
Ingleborough is a great place to visit close to Settle if you like mountains.
There are a number of cities near Settle including York, and Ripon.
Don't miss York Minster, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge's historic buildings if visiting the area around Settle.
There are a number of hills near Settle including Addlebrough, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, Sugar Loaf Hill, and Attermire Scar.
There are a number of castles near Settle including Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle.
Settle is near some unmissable country parks like Brimham Rocks,
There are a several good parks in the Settle area like 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 boasts some of the best 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
