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Settle  West Riding

 

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Settle like this:

SETTLE, a town, a township-chapelry, a sub-district, and a district, in W. R. Yorkshire. The town stands on the river Ribble, 1¼ mile N N E of the North Midland railway, and 15 N W of Skipton; is overhung by a lime-stone cliff, called Castleberg, about 300 feet high, commanding a picturesque view; had, for a native, Dr. ...


Birkbeck, founder of the London mechanics' institution; is a seat of petty sessions and county courts; serves as a tourists' centre, for exploring the romantic mountain scenery of Upper Airedale; and has a head post-office, ‡ a r. station with telegraph, two banking offices, two chief inns, a bridge, a town hall in the Tudor style built in 1832, amusic hall built in 1855, a church in the early English style built in 1838, four dissenting chapels, a mechanics' institute, a literary society, a news-room, and national and infant schools. A weekly market is held on Tuesday; fairs are held on the Tuesday before Palm Sunday, the Thursday before Good Friday, every alternate Friday till Whit-Sunday, 26 April, 1821 Aug., and the Tuesday after 27 Oct.; and cotton manufacture and tanning are carried on. The chapelry comprises 4, 483 acres, and is in Giggleswick parish. Real property, £9, 479; of which £40 are in fisheries. Pop. in 1851, 1, 976; in 1861, 1, 586. Houses, 340. The living is a p. curacy in the diocese of Ripon. Value, 150.* Patrons, five Trustees.—The sub-district contains all Giggleswick and Horton-in-Ribblesdale parishes, and two townships of Clapham. Acres, 47,009. Pop., 4, 503. Houses, 932. The district comprehends also the sub-districts of Long Preston, Kirkby-Malham, Arncliffe, and Bentham; and comprises 154, 591 acres. Poor-rates in 1863, £6, 718. Pop. in 1851, 13, 762; in 1861, 12, 528. Houses, 2, 605. Marriages in 1863, 84; births, 375, of which 28 were illegitimate; deaths, 254, of which 87 were at ages under 5 years, and 7 at ages above 85. Marriages in the ten years 1851-60, 855; births, 4,007; deaths, 2, 598. The places of worship, in 1851, were 19 of the Church of England, with 7, 320 sittings; 1 of Independents, with400 s.; 2 of Baptists, with 250 s.; 3 of Quakers, with440 s.; 16 of Wesleyans, with 1, 700 s.; 3 of Primitive Methodists, with 280 s.; and 1 of Roman Catholics, with 60 s. The schools were 30 public day schools, with1, 572 scholars; 35 private day schools, with 596 s.; 40 Sunday schools, with 2, 415 s.; and 6 evening schools foradults, with 38 s. The workhouse is in Giggleswick township.

Settle through time

Settle is now part of Craven district. Click here for graphs and data of how Craven has changed over two centuries. For statistics about Settle itself, go to Units and Statistics.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Settle, in Craven and West Riding | Map and description, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/14197

Date accessed: 29th March 2024


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