Ingleton - the start of our Yorkshire holiday
Although we had visited many of the places around this area before, it was `many moons` ago - 12 years to be precise! So we were looking forward to this holiday, although the thought of the journey was a bit daunting. As it turned out, the journey was not as bad as anticipated and the A14 - M6 route was easy to follow. Arriving in Ingleton, we soon found our cottage and made ourselves at home. The weather had threatened us, but the week overall did not turn out too bad, enabling us to see most of what we had planned. One of the things which first struck me was - rivers. Ingleton has the River Doe and the River Twiss meetinng to form the source of the River Greta, which passes under the viaduct and is itself a tributary of the River Lune! Ingleton rivers The story of the local railway is some what bizarre. It has two station! It was originally planned in 1846 to form part of a main line route from London to Scotland, but fell victim to rivalry between railway companies. Comple...