Clapham (North Yorkshire)
Coordinates: 54 ° 7 ′ N , 2 ° 24 ′ W
Clapham is a village in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire , England . Clapham used to be in the West Riding of Yorkshire .
Clapham was first mentioned in 1160.
The Farrer family has lived near Clapham, whose Ingleborough Estate includes large parts of the land around the town, since the 18th century .
Clapham and Newby form the civil parish Clapham cum Newby .
In 1947, two skeletons known as the Trow Ghyll Skeleton were found in caves near the site . Since their identity remained unclear, numerous speculations arose about dead German spies.
geology
Clapham is at the foot of Ingleborough , one of the mountains of the Three Peaks Walk , and is a popular starting point for climbing the mountain. Clapham is the entrance to Ingleborough Cave .
Clapham is located in a geological fracture zone that separates the sandstone of the Bowland region from the limestone of the Ingleboroughre region. The Clapham Beck has washed itself into the limestone and exposed the underlying rock layers, which make the earth alkaline , a fact that promotes the conspicuous growth of rhododendrons at Clapham.
Famous pepole
The biologist Reginald Farrer (1880–1920) grew up in Clapham.
traffic
The Clapham station on the railway Leeds Morecambe is located about 1.5 km south of the town.
Individual evidence
- ^ Organ, 'Farrer, Reginald John (1880–1920)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Sept 2012 accessed 19 Dec 2016
Web links
- The community Clapham website (Engl.)