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Clapham

Lying just off the main route of the A65 Clapham is a small village in a pleasantly wooded valley called Clapdale.

Well known as the starting point of a classic ascent of Ingleborough (one of Yorkshire's famous "Three Peaks" - Ingleborough, Whernside and Pen-y-Ghent), the path from Clapham leads past Clapham Falls and Clapham Lake through the woods (part of the nineteenth century botanist Sir Reginald Farrar's country estate of "Ingleborough Hall") to the impressive entrance of Ingleborough Cave, which is open to the public as a show cave and is a popular destination of tourists and day-trippers in its own right.

Back in the village itself is a fine church (pictured above) as well as the ornamental cataract of Clapham Falls.

The area is also said to be home to the Clapham boggart.

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