Buckden, Wharfedale, N Yorkshire - Walter Scott postcard c.1970s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Buckden from the West, Wharfedale, North Yorkshire
• Publisher:  Walter Scott (CY 379)
• Postally used:  no
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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Buckden is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England.

Buckden is situated in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, on the River Wharfe in Wharfedale. It is situated where Buckden Gill, which rises on Buckden Pike, joins the River Wharfe. Up the Gill is an old, long disused, lead mine - Buckden Gavel Mine. The village has a large hotel, the Buck Inn, a village shop, and a residential outdoor education centre - Buckden House.

One famous connection of the Buck Inn is that Lord Healey (Denis Healey) - the former Labour Chancellor of the Exchequer (1974–1979) spent his honeymoon staying in the barn that was then attached to the pub. This has since been converted to living accommodation.^[1]

The Dales Way passes close to the village, on the opposite bank of the Wharfe. Other footpaths lead from the village up to the top of Buckden Pike, and over the ridge opposite Buckden Pike to Litton, above Arncliffe, in Littondale

The civil parish includes the hamlet of Cray and the whole of Langstrothdale. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 184. Just up the dale, where Langstrothdale joins Wharfedale, is the old village of Hubberholme, noted for its Norman church and old inn.

The bridge at Buckden is not the first one. An earlier bridge was destroyed in a flood in 1748. The new bridge became known as election bridge as a prospective MP made the promise of a replacement bridge an electoral pledge. ^[2]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=yorkshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

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