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September 2019

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Yorkshire Dales holiday

Skipton

     
 After lunch three of us drove to Skipton to do some shopping for the next day's meal we were going to cook, then I led a walk around the town

 going to look at the Leeds and Liverpool Canal

 To the right at the junction is a short navigable stretch, the Springs Branch or Thanet canal, built to carry limestone

 

 Coach St

 

 Canal St

 

 

 Water St

 The Weslyan Methodist Chapel from 1865 became council offices, and was sold in 2011 with the stipulation it
 could not be used for drinking, boxing or gambling etc.

 Linda is trying to decide if this is where the town plan says John Wesley preached

 

 We were aiming for the High Corn Mill where this was one of the display windows. You could also see the huge water wheel
 from inside, but there were too many reflections on the glass to get a proper picture. But there was a large iron lever
 which opened a sluice and drove the wheel round fast and noisily. I think we all had a go.

 There was a sheep outside. Skipton Sheep Day on the first Sunday in July is apparently one of the highlights of the Skipton year.

 The downstream side of the High Corn Mill

 and across the road, The Celebrated Pork Pie Establishment

 You could just see the large waterwheel from the canal towpath

 

 and going around the back of the mill could view it from rather closer

 Behind the mill up Chapel Hill is a rather fine former chapel built in 1791; they moved to grander premises (above) in 1865

 The back of the High Corn Mill. The wheel is hidden by the trees at right

 and the sort of shop that you can find here

 The Castle Inn and Holy Trinity

 which has some rather fancy and fairly modern gates

 Skipton Castle 'DESORMAIS'

 Holy Trinity

 The High St from the gates of Holy Trinity

 

 Mill Bridge

 High Street

 Town Hall

 Sir Matthew Wilson (1802-91), Skipton's first MP

 Library

 Sheep St

 

 

 

 Banks and Building Societies at the south end of the High St

 The Cock & Bottle, Swadford St

 The canal from Belmont Bridge. We walked down by the canal

 

 On Regal Buildings, Keighley Rd

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