Yorkshire A to Y
Gazetteer
Craven former district — part of 
NORTH YORKSHIRE X
Craven was the westernmost of the seven now-abolished large district authorities which have been merged into a unitary authority of The Craven district covered around 454 square miles of the area now run by North Yorkshire Council, the unitary authority the Government has created from the former County Council which covers a massive area of around 3,085 square miles and more than 600 towns and villages.
The Craven area includes the mountains and dales of a large area of the
The administrative centre was Skipton and the wide area includes a number of smaller towns and dozens of villages.
The population of the area is over 57,000.
To view our gazetteer of places across all the new North Yorkshire Council unitary authority see
NORTH YORKSHIRE Places in the Craven district were:
Airton 
Appletreewick 
Arncliffe 
Austwick Barden Bolton Abbey 
Broughton Craven Buckden Burnsall 
Burton in Lonsdale Carleton-in-Craven Clapham 
Coniston Cold Conistone 
Cononley Cowling Cracoe Cray Crosshills Draughton East Marton Embsay 
Farnhill Feizor Gargrave 
Giggleswick Glusburn Grassington 
Halton Gill Hebden Craven Hellifield Helwith Bridge Hetton High Bentham Horton in Ribblesdale 
Hubberholme Ingleton 
Kettlewell 
Kildwick Kilnsey 
Kirkby Malham 
Langcliffe Linton North Yorkshire Litton Long Preston 
Lothersdale Low Bentham Malham 
Masongill Newby Craven Otterburn Rathmell Ribblehead Rylstone Settle 
Skipton 
Stainforth North Yorkshire Starbotton Sutton-in-Craven Thornton-in-Craven Thornton in Lonsdale Threshfield Tosside West Marton Wigglesworth We continue to add more villages to our A to Y gazetteer and the above may not yet list all places in Craven former district — part of
NORTH YORKSHIRE