Brown Bank Wood

Brown Bank Wood is a forest in Bentham, Craven District, England. Brown Bank Wood is situated nearby to the locality Waterscale Island, as well as near the hamlet Greystonegill.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Bentham railway station and Bentham Town Hall.

Bentham railway station

Railway station

Photo: Avocet, Public domain.

Bentham is a railway station on the Bentham Line, which runs between Leeds and Morecambe via Skipton. The station, situated 19 miles east of Lancaster, serves the town of High Bentham and surrounding settlements in North Yorkshire.

Bentham Town Hall

Town hall

Photo: Christine Johnstone, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bentham Town Hall, also known as High Bentham Town Hall, is a municipal building in Station Road, High Bentham, a town in North Yorkshire, England. The building currently accommodates Bentham Town Council but is also used as a community events venue and a tourist information office.

Great Stone of Fourstones

Stone

Photo: Mike and Kirsty Grundy, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Great Stone of Fourstones, or the Big Stone as it is known locally, is a glacial deposit on the moorlands of Tatham Fells, England, straddling the county border between North Yorkshire and Lancashire, near Bentham in the District of Craven.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Clapham and High Bentham.

Clapham

Photo: RobThinks, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Clapham is a village in North Yorkshire, with a population of roughly 600. It's set in the limestone scenery of the Dales, and its main attractions are Ingleborough show cave and the cave complex of Gaping Gill.

High Bentham

Town

Photo: Ian Lane, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bentham is a civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, with a population of 3,027 at the 2011 Census. The parish includes the town High Bentham, occasionally known as Higher Bentham or just Bentham, and the older adjacent village Low Bentham.

Ingleton

Village

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Ingleton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. The village is 17 miles from Kendal and 17 miles from Lancaster on the western side of the Pennines.

Brown Bank Wood

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

54.107° or 54° 6′ 25″ north

Longitude

-2.4716° or 2° 28′ 18″ west

Open location code

9C6V4G4H+Q9

OpenStreetMap ID

way 58758222

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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Localities in the Area

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