Archaeological highlights
The Settle Loop passes close by to a number of interesting archaeological features as listed below.
To read in more detail about these and many more historic landscape features across the Yorkshire Dales National Park visit our Out of Oblivion website (opens in new window) and use the search facility to find the feature.
Stock Underbridge, Lambert Lane
OS Grid Reference: SD832626
Drystone culvert or underbridge running underneath Lambert Lane in Settle.
Malham Calamine Mine
OS Grid Reference: SD876640
19th Century calamine mine which supplied zinc ore mainly to the brass makers of Cheadle, Staffordshire. The calamine was calcined (roasted) at a smelt mill on Malham Moor, transported by pack horse and cart to the Leeds and Liverpool Canal wharves in Gargrave from where it was taken to Staffordshire.
Victoria Cave
OS Grid Reference: SD838650
Discovered in 1837, the thick clay deposits in this cave have provided scientists with an amazing record of climate change across the Dales over thousands of years. Excavations have found 130,000 year old hippo, elephant and hyena bones and evidence of Roman usage of the cave, possibly as a shrine.
Langcliffe High Mill
OS Grid Reference:SD816650
One of Yorkshire’s earliest and largest cotton mills, this mill was built in 1783-4 by Claytons and Walshman and was in use until the mid 1950s.
Langcliffe Memorial Fountain Basin
OS Grid Reference: SD821650
An 18th or early 19th century fountain built from stone which was used to water cattle for many years.
Attermire Rifle Range, Settle
OS Grid Reference: SD838641
Mid 19th century shooting range set up for the Settle Volunteers, a rifle corps which was set up by the County lieutenant in response to the threat of war with France. The range was re-used in both the First and Second World Wars.
Attermire Cave
OS Grid Reference: SD841641
This cave appears to have been used during the Neolithic and early Bronze Age, then abandoned and possibly blocked up until the Romano-British period when it may have been used as a shrine.
Castleberg
OS Grid Reference: SD821636
Local beauty spot and Victorian pleasure ground now managed as a haven for wildlife and beauty spot but still retaining many of the plants from its time as a pleasure ground.
