Langcliffe
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| Langcliffe shown within North Yorkshire | |
| Population | 333 |
| OS grid reference | SD822650 |
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| Country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Postcode district | BD24 |
| Dialling code | 01729 |
| Police | North Yorkshire |
| Fire | North Yorkshire |
| Ambulance | Yorkshire |
| EU Parliament | Yorkshire and the Humber |
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Langcliffe is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated north of Settle, and to the east of Giggleswick. Langcliffe lies within one of eight regions covered by the Yorkshire Dales National Park, which was "established in 1954, and covers an area of 1,762 square kilometres in the north of England, straddling the central Pennines in the counties of North Yorkshire and Cumbria." The River Ribble runs parallel to the east of Langcliffe. The area had a population of 333 according to the 2011 census. Notable residents or former residents of this village include authors Leah Fleming and Marina Fiorato.
Pre-historic circular banked enclosures, cairns and quarries abound atop Langcliffe Scar. and the early settlement was nearer to the foot of the scar than it is now, in a field called Pesbers by the lane to Winskill. When Scottish raiders destroyed its houses after the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314, it was rebuilt half a mile to the south. In 1513 the muster rolls of the Battle of Flodden show that nine men from Langliffe fought the Scots army.
In the 1870s, Langcliffe was described as:
... a village, a township, and a chapelry in Giggleswick parish, W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands near the river Ribble, ¾ of a mile N of Settle, and 2 NNE of Settle r. station; and has a post-office under Settle.—The township contains also the hamlet of Winskill, and comprises 2,550 acres. Real property, £3,319. Pop. in 1851,601; in 1861,376. Houses, 78. The decrease of pop. was caused by the stoppage of cotton mills and the dispersion of the workers.
In 1086 the Domesday Book in folio 331V records that the lord was named Fech. In Langcliffe he paid taxes on three carucates of ploughland. By 1068 William the Conqueror had put Craven under the overlordship of Roger de Poitou but after 1102 when de Poitou rebelled, King Henry I confiscated his lands and gave those in the Ribble Valley to the House of Percy. The manors of Giggleswick and Langcliffe were subsequently held by the de Giggleswicke family for five generations.
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