Clapham

Clapham is a picturesque village blessed with a beck flowing down the centre that divides the two roads and houses which border them.
It is now by-passed by the A65 between Settle and Ingleton as it skirts the southern flanks of Ingleborough.
Clapham has three claims to fame :-

• James Faraday was the village blacksmith and the father of Michael Faraday, pioneer of electrical science
• Reginald Farrer travelled the world in search of plants, and from the Far East introduced many new species into Britain and Europe
• In 1939 a monthly magazine, the Yorkshire Dalesman, was founded in Clapham. Now simply 'The Dalesman' it is the most widely read and successful regional magazine in Britain.

The National Park Centre and car park on the east side of the village are used by thousands of visitors each year; for many Clapham is an excellent base from which to explore, on foot, the many varied aspects of limestone landscape immediately north of the village. Clapham is largely an estate-village of the Farrers who both explored and opened up Ingleborough Cave in 1837. The family's dedication to natural history is commemorated through the Reginald Farrer Nature Trail, established in 1970.

Clapham was the first village to get electric street lighting. It was powered by a turbine at the bottom of the waterfall near the church.

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Links
New Inn Pub
National Park Authority
Ingleborough Cave
Ingleborough Hall Outdoor Education Centre

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