Places to explore near Settle StationSettle

Lively market town beneath Castleberg crag, its 1249 charter still kept on Tuesdays and the Settle-Carlisle line beginning here.

0.2 km NE · North Yorkshire

Limestone country of dry-stone walls, field barns, waterfalls and the Three Peaks.

0.4 km E

The Pennines for horse and bike — old packhorse trails and drovers' roads.

0.4 km E · spans 6 counties

Wild heather moorland and the Trough of Bowland.

1 km NW

A dramatic 40-foot fall tucked in a wooded ravine just outside Settle, best after rain.

2.5 km E

A Victorian lime kiln of 22 chambers, its pitch-dark vaulted tunnel running round in one long oval, in the old Craven Lime Works above Langcliffe.

2.9 km N

A wildflower-rich limestone pavement nature reserve above Langcliffe, with panoramas across Ribblesdale.

3.2 km NE

A series of low falls on the Ribble beside an arched packhorse bridge, where salmon leap in autumn.

3.7 km N

A hidden two-stage fall in a wooded gorge above Stainforth, a favourite walk of the composer Elgar.

3.9 km N

The first and toughest of them all — 268 miles along England's rocky spine from the Peak to the Cheviots.

7.5 km E · spans 8 counties

A vast curved amphitheatre of white limestone 80 metres high, topped by one of England's finest limestone pavements.

8 km E

A field of dark Silurian boulders left perched on pale limestone by melting glaciers, above Austwick.

8.1 km NW

White stone houses along a beck below the great curved cliff of Malham Cove, the busiest walking base in the Dales.

8.4 km E · North Yorkshire

A tidy village of cottages over a wooded beck, gateway to Ingleborough Cave and the vast Gaping Gill pothole.

9.2 km NW · North Yorkshire

A mossy waterfall dropping into a woodland plunge pool near Malham, said to be home to the queen of the fairies.

9.4 km E

A towering limestone ravine with twin waterfalls, its overhanging walls a magnet for artists and writers for centuries.

9.8 km E

A show cave of floodlit stalactites and pools on the walk up from Clapham toward Gaping Gill.

9.9 km NW

The Dales Way's high-level companion, crossing Ingleborough and the Howgill Fells on its way from Saltaire to Appleby.

0.3 km NE · Cumbria, North Yorkshire & West Yorkshire

Charming coaching inn on Settle's market place, championing local producers and real ales.

0.3 km NE

Friendly local just off Settle's market square, a reliable stop for ale and pub classics.

0.3 km E

Sea to source up the Ribble valley, from the marshes at Longton to the high fell country above Ribblehead.

0.4 km W · Lancashire, North Yorkshire & Cumbria

Settle's older twin across the Ribble, a village of narrow lanes below its famous school and green-domed chapel.

0.7 km NW · North Yorkshire

Limestone cliffs above Settle with Victoria Cave, where bones of hippos, hyenas and elephants were dug out of the floor

1 km E

Ribblesdale village around a leafy green just north of Settle, a starting point for Catrigg Force and Winskill.

1.6 km N · North Yorkshire

A National Trust place in North Yorkshire.

3.8 km N

Ribblesdale village between two waterfalls, its seventeenth-century packhorse bridge arching the Ribble at Stainforth Force.

3.8 km N · North Yorkshire