Giggleswick, North Yorkshire

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Giggleswick is a village in Settle, North Yorkshire

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Giggleswick within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Giggleswick in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Giggleswick, par., township, and vil. with ry. sta., N. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, on river Ribble, 8 miles SE. of Ingleton -- par., 18,319 ac., pop. 4298; township, 4338 ac., pop. 976; P.O.; has a grammar school founded by Edward VI.; in vicinity are several slate and stone quarries; the par. contains Settle.

Giggleswick in the Domesday Book

A village in Craven hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

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