button to main menu  Old Cumbria Gazetteer
Springs Branch Canal, Skipton
Springs Branch Canal
locality:-   Skipton
county:-   North Yorkshire
locality type:-   canal
1Km square:-   SD9852
10Km square:-   SD95

evidence:-   descriptive text:- West 1778 (11th edn 1821) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Guide to the Lakes, by Thomas West, published by William Pennington, Kendal, Cumbria once Westmorland, and in London, 1778 to 1821.
image WS21P280, button  goto source
Tour to the Caves in the West Riding of Yorkshire, late 18th century 
Page 280:-  "... and came to Skipton. ... After we had visited the castle (which belongs to the Earl of Thanet) and the curious canal behind it, above the mills, which leads to the limestone quarry, by the side of a romantic deep glen, we left Skipton. ..."

button to lakes menu  Lakes Guides menu.