Traditional county: North Yorkshire · Region: Yorkshire and the Humber
Explore Skirethorns, North Yorkshire with this interactive street and satellite map. You can “grab” the Skirethorns map and move it around to re-centre it. You can change between standard map view and satellite map view by clicking the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. You can use the zoom buttons on the lower right side of the map to zoom in or out to street-level detail. You will find live weather, local and world news below.
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| Place | Skirethorns |
| Traditional County | North Yorkshire |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Country | England, United Kingdom |
| Latitude | 54.070606 |
| Longitude | -2.034729 |
| Place Type | Hamlet |
Skirethorns emerges from the limestone bedrock as a quiet collection of dwellings where the wind carries the sharp, clean scent of high-altitude pasture. It lies 7.7 miles north of Skipton (from Skipton: bearing 355°T, OS grid SD 978 638), and is situated south of Long Ashes village. Stone walls divide the surrounding fields into a brittle geometry, anchoring the earth against the expansive, shifting light of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. To the northeast, the ancient earthworks of the Prehistoric Unenclosed Hut Circle Settlement offer a silent dialogue between the present day and the deep, unrecorded past of these slopes. The nearby meadow of Meadow Croft, Skythorns Sssi preserves a rare, fragile biodiversity that thrives in the damp earth, indifferent to the movement of the modern world. Below the hamlet, the waters of Grysedale Beck carve a restless, silver path through the valley floor, murmuring against the smooth, pale stones of the riverbed. Skirethorns remains a place where the horizon dominates the view, and the sky seems to press down with a weight that defines the character of every slate roof and drystone boundary.
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Explore Skirethorns, North Yorkshire, with an embedded street and satellite map - switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 54.070606, -2.034729. Live weather conditions and 7-day forecasts are provided through Open-Meteo, while real-time local and world news feeds help keep the page current. Wikipedia and editorial summaries provide additional local information and context.
Location data is sourced from OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024, Ordnance Survey, Open Government Licence v3.0, and verified by coordinates.
| Page built | August 2026 |
| Location data | OS Open Names © Crown copyright and database rights 2024. Ordnance Survey. Open Government Licence v3.0. |
| County data | Traditional county boundaries. Modern unitary authority: OS Open Names / ONS Geography. |
| Coordinates | WGS84 decimal degrees derived from OS National Grid (OSGB36) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched by Wikipedia category membership (e.g. “Villages in Derbyshire”) and name verification against OS Open Names data. |