"Your Are Here" In Skipton Cstle Woods - Skipton, UK
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dtrebilc
N 53° 57.945 W 002° 00.816
30U E 564710 N 5980161
This You Are Map marks the official entrance to Skipton Castle Woods, although in essence the path is in fact a continuation of a path alongside the Spring Canal that starts in the centre of Skipton.
Waymark Code: WMMN6T
Location: Yorkshire, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 10/13/2014
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For nearly a thousand years Skipton Wood provided fuel, building materials and food to the castle it surrounds. And the waterways that run through it gave power to local wool, corn and saw mills across two centuries.
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The woods were opened for public access in 1971, and these days are leased to the Woodland Trust who manage and maintain the wood. It is the Woodland Trust that have erected the sign at the entrance to the wood and it shows the footpaths that pass through the wood and the junction of the path from Spring Canal in the centre of Skipton.
Much of the route follows Eller Beck, a stream through the woods that for many years was used to provide power for water wheels at a corn mill and saw mill.
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