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Town Head North Yorkshire Map

Traditional county: North Yorkshire · Region: Yorkshire and the Humber

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Place	Town Head
Traditional County	North Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England, United Kingdom

Latitude	54.020826
Longitude	-2.259814
Place Type	Suburban Area

About Town Head

Town Head clings to the verdant rise of the Ribblesdale landscape, where the limestone bedrock exerts a silent, bony pressure beneath the thin, grazing pastures. It lies 3.3 miles south-south-east of Settle (from Settle: bearing 167°T, OS grid SD 830 583), and is situated west-north-west of Long Preston village. The terrain here rises sharply toward Borks Hill, a feature that catches the low, slanted light of winter afternoons and holds it against the darkening eastern sky. Waters from the River Ribble (Long Preston Deeps) SSSI trace a slow, serpentine path through the valley floor, their currents often choked with the rich, alluvial silt of the floodplains. Town Head remains defined by this hydrological proximity, where the damp, heavy air of the meadows meets the sharp, scouring winds blowing down from the higher fells. Small drystone walls demarcate the fields with a rigid, geometric precision, serving as the only true architecture in a vista dominated by grass and cloud. Residents here observe the changing seasons through the subtle colour shifts of the sedge and the persistent, rhythmic arrival of wading birds returning to the wetlands. Life at Town Head is a quiet negotiation with the elements, dictated more by the saturation of the soil than by the encroaching pace of the modern world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

River Ribble (Long Preston Deeps) Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — locality lies within · 159 ha
The Green (Park) — 0.2 mi, 114° ESE
Borks Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 0.2 mi, 269° W
Maypole Green (Park) — 0.3 mi, 109° ESE
Long Preston Beck (River) — 0.7 mi, 116° ESE
Scalehaw Hill (Hill / Mountain) — 0.8 mi, 075° ENE
Old Field Syke (River) — 0.9 mi, 195° SSW
Ribblesdale (Valley) — 1.1 mi, 181° S
Bullock Barn (Historic Ruins) — 1.3 mi, 328° NNW
Pan Beck Fen Sssi (Site of Special Scientific Interest) — 1.9 mi, 142° SE · 2 ha
Rathmell Goit (Lake / Reservoir) — 2.5 mi, 297° WNW
Hellifield Peel (Scheduled Monument) — 2.5 mi, 133° SE
Ormsgill Green Lime Kiln (Historic Ruins) — 2.6 mi, 068° ENE
Scaleber Force (Waterfall) — 2.7 mi, 014° NNE
Goit Head (Lake / Reservoir) — 2.8 mi, 299° WNW
Long Roods Round Barrow (Scheduled Monument) — 2.9 mi, 150° SSE
Round Barrow 400M South West Of Crane Field Laithe (Scheduled Monument) — 3.0 mi, 104° ESE
Gallery on the Green (Public Artwork) — 3.1 mi, 350° N
Museum of North Craven Life (Museum) — 3.3 mi, 349° N
Settle Station Signal Box (Museum) — 3.3 mi, 345° NNW
Richard Whiteley Theatre (Theatre) — 3.8 mi, 338° NNW
Victoria Cave (Attraction) — 4.2 mi, 006° N
Coniston Lake (Lake / Reservoir) — 4.4 mi, 112° ESE
Skirden Hall Plantation (Forest / Woodland) — 4.5 mi, 253° WSW
Jubilee Cave (Attraction) — 4.5 mi, 005° N
Town Head Barn (Attraction) — 5.2 mi, 054° NE
Gisburn Forest (Forest / Woodland) — 5.3 mi, 257° WSW
Catrigg Force (Waterfall) — 5.4 mi, 001° N
Gisburne Park (Historic Park or Garden) — 5.5 mi, 182° S · 69 ha
Malham Cove (Attraction) — 5.5 mi, 049° NE

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