1597-98 Plague Stone

1597-98 Plague Stone is a memorial in Giggleswick, Craven District, England. 1597-98 Plague Stone is situated nearby to Giggleswick railway station, as well as near Beggar’s Wife Bridge.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Giggleswick railway station and Castleberg Hospital.

Giggleswick railway station

Railway station

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Giggleswick is a railway station on the Bentham Line, which runs between Leeds and Morecambe via Skipton. The station, situated 41+1⁄4 miles north-west of Leeds, serves the market town of Settle and the village of Giggleswick in North Yorkshire. Giggleswick railway station is situated 570 feet west of 1597-98 Plague Stone.

Castleberg Hospital

Hospital

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Castleberg Hospital is a health facility in Raines Road, Giggleswick, North Yorkshire, England. It is managed by Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. Castleberg Hospital is situated 3,100 feet northeast of 1597-98 Plague Stone.

Settle railway station

Railway station

Photo: David Ingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Settle is a railway station on the Settle and Carlisle Line, which runs between Carlisle and Leeds. The station, situated 41 miles 37 chains north-west of Leeds, serves the market town of Settle in North Yorkshire, England. Settle railway station is situated 1 mile east of 1597-98 Plague Stone.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Giggleswick and Settle.

Giggleswick

Village

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Giggleswick, a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, lies on the B6480 road, less than 1 mile north-west of the town of Settle and divided from it by the River Ribble.

Settle

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Settle is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the town had a population of 2,421 in the 2001 census, increasing to 2,564 at the 2011 census.

Langcliffe

Village

Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Langcliffe is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, in England. It lies to the north of Settle and east of Giggleswick. The River Ribble runs along the west of the village. Langcliffe is situated 1½ miles northeast of 1597-98 Plague Stone.

1597-98 Plague Stone

Type: Memorial
Inscription: “1597-98 Plague Stone. The stone was enclosed by the Settle Naturalist and Antiquarian Society in Honour of Thomas Brayshaw Esq JP, the Settle Historian and Antiquarian 1930”
Category: historic site
Location: Giggleswick, Craven District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.06223° or 54° 3′ 44″ north

Longitude

-2.30031° or 2° 18′ 1″ west

Open location code

9C6V3M6X+VV

OpenStreetMap ID

node 735913502

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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