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 North Yorkshire.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 Yorkshire Dales National Park and a part of the Forest of Bowland Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
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 YORKSHIREPlaces in the Craven district were:
Airton
Appletreewick
Arncliffe
Austwick Barden Bolton Abbey Broughton 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 Hellifield Helwith Bridge Hetton High Bentham Horton in Ribblesdale
Hubberholme Ingleton
Kettlewell
Kildwick Kilnsey
Kirkby Malham
Langcliffe Linton Litton Long Preston
Lothersdale Low Bentham Malham
Masongill Newby Otterburn Rathmell Ribblehead Rylstone Settle
Skipton
Stainforth Starbotton Sutton-in-Craven Thornton-in-Craven Thornton in Lonsdale Threshfield Tosside West Marton WigglesworthWe 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