High Croft Plantation

High Croft Plantation is a forest in Rylstone, Craven District, England. High Croft Plantation is situated nearby to the village Rylstone, as well as near Hetton.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Norton Tower and Sharp Haw.

Norton Tower

Archaeological site

Norton Tower is a ruined building near Rylstone, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was constructed as a hunting lodge with space for banqueting, probably in about 1540.

Sharp Haw is a hill on the southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales, located just within the National Park. Being the last outpost of the hills before the broad Aire valley, and with a sharp summit from many angles, it is prominent and easily recognisable from much of the area to the south.

Winterburn Reservoir

Reservoir

Photo: Allan Friswell, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Winterburn Reservoir is located near the village of Winterburn in Malhamdale, North Yorkshire, England. It was constructed between 1885 and 1893 by Leeds civil engineers Henry Rofe and Edward Filliter to help maintain levels on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Skipton and Rylstone.

Skipton

Photo: Tim Green, CC BY 2.0.

Skipton is a market town in North Yorkshire, with a population of 15,000 in 2021. It has a sturdy castle and scenic canal; it's within a short travel time of the Leeds-Bradford conurbation and is on the southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales, so it's a popular day-trip destination.

Rylstone

Village

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Rylstone is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated very near to Cracoe and about 6 miles south west of Grassington.

Hetton

Village

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Hetton is a small Dales village in the civil parish of Hetton-cum-Bordley, in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated 5.75 miles north of Skipton by the B6265 road.

High Croft Plantation

Type: Forest
Location: Rylstone, Craven District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.0174° or 54° 1′ 3″ north

Longitude

-2.0549° or 2° 3′ 18″ west

Open location code

9C6V2W8W+X3

OpenStreetMap ID

way 327377908

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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