47-515: Pennine Journey is a 247-mile (398 km) circular trail that starts and ends in Settle , North Yorkshire , England. The route is based on a walk taken by Alfred Wainwright in 1938 and described by him in a book published in 1986. From Settle, the route heads north through North Yorkshire, County Durham and Northumberland to Hadrian's Wall , then extending along the wall for 21 miles (34 km), before turning south through Cumbria to head back to
94-407: A bear's skull found in one of the caves. The composer Edward Elgar visited Settle on many occasions to visit his friend Dr Charles William Buck. There is a blue plaque at Cravendale to commemorate this. Settle has two schools, with Settle Primary School and Settle College . Settle Middle School closed as part of the money-saving measures taken by North Yorkshire County Council. To the west of
141-485: A bed of hyena bones). They date to an Upper Pleistocene interglacial. After the last Ice Age the cave was used by hibernating brown bear and reindeer . Associated with the later deposits were a harpoon head carved from antler; flint implements and other ornaments. The discovery of flint is noteworthy as it is not found naturally in the area. Craven Museum & Gallery in Skipton has an exhibition of items which includes
188-462: A box describing themselves as Scottish or Irish, an option not available for English respondents. With an absence of an English tick-box, the only other tickbox available was "white-British", "Irish", or "other". However, if 'English' was written in under the "any other white background" it was not clear whether it would be counted as an ethnic group in same the way as the Welsh. Following criticism, English
235-493: A box describing themselves as Scottish or Irish, an option not available for Welsh respondents. Prior to the census, Plaid Cymru backed a petition calling for the inclusion of a Welsh tickbox and for the National Assembly for Wales to have primary law-making powers and its own National Statistics Office. With an absence of a Welsh tickbox, the only other tickbox available was "white-British", "Irish", or "other". For
282-601: A census form, was estimated to be 94% in England and Wales, 96.1% in Scotland and 95.2% in Northern Ireland. This was due to a number of factors: households with no response, households excluding residents from their returns, and addresses not included in the enumeration. In Manchester for example 25,000 people from 14,000 addresses were not enumerated because the address database was two years out of date. The Local Authority with
329-483: A former BT telephone kiosk. Gavagan Arts at Linton Court Gallery is situated in a courtyard off Duke Street. The gallery presents a series of temporary exhibitions of modern and contemporary art. The Listening Gallery is an audio gallery in an old phone box. The gallery has changing exhibitions and is open 365 days a year and is free to enter. The box is maintained and was created by Settle Stories. The district has several caves where prehistoric remains have been found,
376-684: Is Councillor Stephen Hogg. Since 1992, the town has been twinned with the French Mediterranean seaside town of Banyuls-sur-Mer . Settle was part of the West Riding of Yorkshire . It is located in Ribblesdale , at the southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales , within a few miles of the Three Peaks . Immediately overlooking the town is Castlebergh, a 300 feet (91 m) limestone crag, and to
423-507: Is a circular route, and takes in all three of the Yorkshire peaks, as opposed to just one on the Pennine Way . The route was first traversed by Alfred Wainwright in 1938, though the modern version differs somewhat from the route Wainwright took, with most of the modern-day walk being off-road. Wainwright had travelled from Blackburn to Settle to undertake the walk in 1938 as a way of coping with
470-459: Is believed to be the oldest cafe in the country. The Yorkshire Festival of Story brings artists to the town and has a range of paid-for and free events suitable for all age ranges. The festival attracts visitors from around the world and audiences have more than trebled in size since the first festival in 2010. The event is the largest of its kind in the North of England. The Yorkshire Festival of Story
517-677: Is produced by Settle Stories an arts and heritage charity based in the town. Since 2014 the Flowerpot Festival has brightened the town's streets. The Folly is a 17th-century Grade I listed building on the main street. In 1996, the North Craven Building Preservation Trust purchased part of the Folly, restored it and opened it to the public in 2001. The Folly houses the Museum of North Craven Life and hosts exhibitions during
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#1732883828859564-515: Is sited 1 mile (1.6 km) away from Settle and is on the Bentham line between Leeds and Morecambe . Bus routes are operated by Kirkby Lonsdale Coaches and North Yorkshire Council , which link the town with Giggleswick , Horton in Ribblesdale , Kirkby Lonsdale , Skipton and Wigglesworth . The town is located 29 miles (47 km) from Leeds Bradford Airport . The main road through Settle
611-629: Is the Craven Herald & Pioneer . Settle's market is held weekly on Tuesdays in the town-centre marketplace and in the Victoria Hall , a short distance away on Kirkgate. Settle Town Hall was sold by Craven District Council to a developer in October 2011. The Square is surrounded by local businesses, most of which are family-owned, with some offering items for sale unique to the Settle area. The Naked Man
658-630: Is the B6480, which links to the A65 ; it connects the town with Leeds , Ilkley , Skipton and Kendal . Since the town is closest to the Lancashire and North Yorkshire border, local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North West and Granada Television that broadcast from Salford . Local radio stations are BBC Radio York on 104.3 FM, Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire on 107.8 FM, and Dales Radio on 104.9 FM. The town's local newspaper
705-862: 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." Because of its remoteness Settle saw mostly local commerce. The old roads were pack horse trails and drovers' roads along hilltops because
752-694: The General Register Office for Scotland (GROS) and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency (NISRA). Detailed results by region, council area, ward and output area are available from their respective websites. Similar to previous UK censuses, the 2001 census was organised by the three statistical agencies, ONS, GROS, and NISRA, and coordinated at the national level by the Office for National Statistics. The Orders in Council to conduct
799-456: 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. The "little" North Western Railway reached Giggleswick in 1847 and, in 1849, the railway company constructed Station Road from Giggleswick to Settle. In 1875,
846-480: The Settle to Carlisle Railway was built and opened to goods traffic; passenger services commenced the following year when Settle railway station opened along with a goods warehouse, cattle pens, signal box and water cranes. In the late 18th century, cotton spinning became the town's main employment. Bridge End Mill was converted from corn milling to cotton spinning. John Procter operated mills at Runley and King's Mill which were taken over by his son Thomas. He built
893-476: The 'other' heading. 26 per cent did not specify an ethnicity, but of the remainder 23 per cent wrote Filipino , 21 per cent Japanese , 11 per cent Vietnamese , 11 per cent Arab , 6 per cent Middle Eastern and 4 per cent North African . Controversy surrounding the classification of ethnic groups began as early as 2000, when it was revealed that respondents in Scotland and Northern Ireland would be able to check
940-555: The 2001 census were produced using a methodology known as the One Number Census. This was an attempt to adjust the census counts and impute answers to allow for estimated under-enumeration measured by the Census Coverage Survey (sample size 320,000 households), resulting in a single set of population estimates. Although the 1851 census had included a question about religion on a separate response sheet, whose completion
987-431: The Ribblesdale division of North Yorkshire County Council . Following local government reorganisation, it is now in the Settle & Penyghent division of the new North Yorkshire Council unitary authority. The division is represented by 1 Conservative Councillor. Settle is served by a town council made up of 10 councillors. The mayor is elected annually and the current Town Mayor is Councillor Debi Rymer. The Deputy Mayor
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#17328838288591034-512: The UK (70,000 in England and Wales, 8,000 in Scotland and 3,000 in Northern Ireland). The census was conducted at the height of the foot-and-mouth crisis , which led to extra precautions being adopted by the field staff, and suggestions that the census may have to be postponed. However, it was reported that the disease outbreak did not affect the effectiveness of the collection process. The census
1081-640: The UK census relies on self-completion, the composition of the other ethnic group category is not fixed. Analysis by the Office for National Statistics of the 220,000 people in England and Wales who ticked the other ethnic group box in the 2001 census reveals that 53 per cent were born in the Far East , 10 per cent in the UK, 10 per cent in the Middle East , and 7 per cent in Africa . People could write in an ethnic group under
1128-797: The United Kingdom. In England and Wales 390,127 people stated their religion as Jedi , as did 14,052 people in Scotland. The percentages of religious affiliations were: 15% declared themselves of no religion (including Jedi at 0.7%, more than those who declared themselves as Sikh, Jewish or Buddhist) and 8% did not respond to the question. The census ethnic groups included White ( White British , White Irish , Other White ), Mixed ( White and Black Caribbean , White and Black African , White and Asian , Other Mixed ), Asian or Asian British ( Indian , Pakistani , Bangladeshi , Other Asian ), Black or Black British ( Black Caribbean , African , Other Black ) and Chinese or Other Ethnic Group . Since
1175-424: The automatic process could not read the forms. The forms were then pulped and recycled, and the digital copies printed onto microfilm for storage and release after 100 years. Once the data were returned to the statistics agencies it underwent further processing to ensure consistency and to impute missing values. The overall response rate for the census, that is the proportion of the population who were included on
1222-681: The census, specifying the people and information to be included in the census, were made under the authority of the Census Act 1920 in Great Britain, and the Census Act (Northern Ireland) 1969 in Northern Ireland. In England and Wales these regulations were made by the Census Order 2000 (SI 744/2000), in Scotland by the Census (Scotland) Order 2000 (SSI 68/2000), and in Northern Ireland by the Census Order (Northern Ireland) 2000 (SRNI 168/2000). The census
1269-417: The cost of road maintenance, was in debt by £34,000. When in 1877 the trust was terminated, the investors received on average 54% of their deposit. The investors benefited because 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
1316-541: The east is Malham which was in the former Settle Rural District . The River Ribble provided power for Settle's former cotton mills; it is now being harnessed by Settle Hydro , a micro hydroelectric scheme , to provide 50 kW of power to the National Grid , which was opened in 2009. Settle railway station is situated on the Settle to Carlisle line . It is served by Northern Trains , who operate services between Leeds and Carlisle . Giggleswick railway station
1363-493: The first time in a UK census, those wishing to describe their ethnicity as Cornish were given their own code number (06) on the 2001 UK census form, alongside those for people wishing to describe themselves as English, Welsh , Irish or Scottish. About 34,000 people in Cornwall and 3,500 people in the rest of the UK wrote on their census forms in 2001 that they considered their ethnic group to be Cornish. This represented nearly 7% of
1410-514: The looming Second World War . Well now, what Adolf Hitler said and did in September 1938 gave me and many others disquieting pains in the stomach. He frightened us. He made us feel sick. For he couldn't enlarge his boundaries without trampling on our friends....These then, were the days of crisis... He meticulously detailed his route, which encourages the modern-day hiker to take the walk in an anticlockwise direction. In 1998, two walkers developed
1457-486: The lowest response was Kensington and Chelsea with 64%. Hackney had the next lowest response at 72%. Out of all local authorities, the ten lowest response rates were all in London. The results still represent 100 per cent of the population, however, because some individuals not completing their forms were instead identified by census enumerators, and through the use of cross-matching with a follow-up survey. The results from
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1504-422: The most notable being Victoria Cave, so-called because the inner chamber was discovered in 1837 on the day of Queen Victoria 's accession. The cave is a geological SSSI and scheduled monument. Victoria Cave contained fossil remains. The earliest, at 130,000 years old, include mammoth , straight-tusked elephant , cave bear and hippopotamus , Bos primigenius , Rhinoceros leptorhinus and spotted hyenas (as
1551-439: The northern edge of Baugh Fell to Sedbergh , before heading south over Whernside and Ingleborough (with a dog-leg to Ingleton ), and returning to Settle. The walk is divided into eighteen stages, with some short lengths of just over 7.25 miles (11.67 km) (Settle to Horton-in-Ribblesdale), and the longest being just shy of 18 miles (29 km) (Sedbergh to Ingleton). Several Ordnance Survey maps are needed to complete
1598-450: The open season. There are permanent displays, including the Settle to Carlisle Railway , Robert (Mouseman) Thompson furniture and local history. The rest of the building has been purchased by the trust. The museum is independent and run by volunteers. The Gallery on the Green is thought to be the smallest art gallery in the world: drawings, paintings, photographs and other works are housed in
1645-401: The route (OL2: Yorkshire Dales southern and western areas, OL19: Howgill Fells & Upper Eden Valley , OL30: Yorkshire Dales northern and central areas , OL31: North Pennines , OL41: Forest of Bowland & Ribblesdal , OL43: Hadrian's Wall, and 307: Consett & Derwent Reservoir ). One of those who developed the route in 2004 stated that it had two advantages over the Pennine Way : it
1692-488: The route, and persuaded the Wainwright Society to adopt it in 2004. In 2016, it was marked on Ordnance Survey maps for the first time. In 2020, the Wainwright Society launched a campaign to have the path recognised as a National Trail, which would mean that it would be promoted by Natural England . There are hopes that the trail could be designated by September 2028, the 90th anniversary of when Wainwright himself started
1739-610: The row of workers' cottages, Procter's Row in Lower Kirkgate. In 1835, Dog Kennel Mill and Brennand's Weaving Shed, Settle had five mills employing 333 people. Settle is part of the parliamentary constituency of Skipton and Ripon , represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Julian Smith MP , a Conservative . Before 1 April 2023, Settle was in the Settle and Ribblebank ward of Craven District Council and
1786-664: The starting point. The route begins (and ends) in Settle, North Yorkshire, heading north along the eastern edge of the Pennines , over Penyghent where the trail meets the Pennine Way . The path continues past Askrigg to Tan Hill (where it enters the North Pennines AONB ), Bowes and Tees High Force to Hexham . After Hexham it turns westwards along 21 miles (34 km) of Hadrian's Wall, before heading south at Greenhead to Alston , Appleby , Kirkby Stephen , and Garsdale . It then turns westwards through Grisedale and across
1833-559: The town had a population of 2,421 in the 2001 census , increasing to 2,564 at the 2011 census . Settle is thought to have 7th-century Anglian origins, its name being the Angle word for settlement. Craven in the Domesday Book shows that until 1066 Bo was the lord of Settle but after the Harrying of the North (1069–1071) the land was granted to Roger de Poitou . In 1250, a market charter
1880-550: The town is Giggleswick School , one of the principal private schools in the North of England , founded in 1512. 2001 United Kingdom census A nationwide census , known as Census 2001 , was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001. This was the 20th UK census and recorded a resident population of 58,789,194. The 2001 UK census was organised by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in England and Wales ,
1927-518: The valley was soft and swampy before field drainage and the dredging of stream estuaries. 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
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1974-464: The walk. The waymarker for the trail is either a blue or yellow arrow with a circle inset within it. Inside the circle are the letters A and W with the A on top and the W below both in blue. The A and W are Alfred Wainwright's initials. Settle, North Yorkshire Settle is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire , England. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire ,
2021-486: Was administered through self-completion forms, in most cases delivered by enumerators to households and communal establishments in the three weeks before census night on 29 April. For the first time return by post was used as the main collection method, with enumerators following up in person where the forms were not returned. The postal response rate was 88% in England and Wales, 91% in Scotland, and 92% in Northern Ireland. A total of 81,000 field staff were employed across
2068-426: Was estimated to cost £259m over its 13-year cycle from the start of planning in 1993 to the delivery of final results in 2006. Printing of the 30 million census forms was subcontracted to Polestar Group, and processing of the returned census forms was subcontracted to Lockheed Martin in a contract worth £54m. The forms were initially scanned into digital format, then read with OMR and OCR , with manual entry where
2115-482: Was granted to Henry de Percy, 7th feudal baron of Topcliffe by Henry III . A market square developed and the main route through the medieval town was aligned on an east–west direction, from Albert Hill, Victoria Street, High Street and Cheapside and on through Kirkgate. This road led to Giggleswick where the citizens attended the parish church. The first bridge over the River Ribble was mentioned in 1498. During
2162-459: Was included as a tick-box option in the 2011 census. It is sometimes claimed that the 2001 census revealed that two-thirds of the population of Wales described themselves as of Welsh nationality . In fact, the 2001 census did not collect any information on nationality. Controversy surrounding the classification of ethnic group began as early as 2000, when it was revealed that respondents in Scotland and Northern Ireland would be able to check
2209-506: Was not compulsory, the 2001 census was the first in Great Britain to ask about the religion of respondents on the main census form. An amendment to the 1920 Census Act (the Census (Amendment) Act 2000 ) was passed by Parliament to allow the question to be asked, and to allow the response to this question to be optional. The inclusion of the question enabled the Jedi census phenomenon to take place in
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