Skipton Local History

Here's all the local history pages we have on Skipton, right now. Thanks to Malcolm Hanson of The Skipton Experience for contributing pages here. We'd love to have more, but no-one else is helping us or submitting articles. Come on, there must be some more local historians out there... get yourself published on the web. Send us your content - e-mail us

The Gateway Walk by Malcolm Hanson - A fascinating guided walk around the town complete with extensive historical notes. The original book is in A5 format and 27 pages long. We've split it into 8 parts for the web.

Other history pages:

Domesday Book entry for Skipton
Leeds Liverpool Canal in Skipton
Map of Skipton in 1852
Marriages & Burials for Holy Trinity Church, Skipton
Mills in Skipton
POWs in Skipton
Craven's Part in the Great War

Museums:

We have a couple of pages on museums over in the tourist/nearby section:
Craven Museum
Bradford Industrial Museum

Other stuff:

Daelnet have a nice gallery of 17 old Skipton photos at: http://www.daelnet.co.uk/local/history/oldskipton/thmbnl1.htm

We keep getting postings on the messageboard from a local character, regarding local history. Sadly, no-one seems to be replying. Here's a flavour... Postings from Anon

Here's some more from JI-BH... Post from JI-BH

If you are a local historian and have any information to add to this page, or to this Skipton history section in general, please e-mail us.

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