Long Preston
North Yorkshire
The village is on the
Nearly 100 years after the turnpike road, a railway station was opened at Long Preston in 1849. Original station buildings were demolished in the 1970s and now simple waiting shelters serve trains on routes from Leeds and Skipton to Lancaster and Morecambe or to Settle and Carlisle.
Long Preston has a long history of settlement and its present Grade I listed church of St Mary the Virgin dates from around 1500.
Agriculture has played a large part in life in the village over the centuries, but cotton spinning also became a local occupation there during the 19th century.
Water supplies in Long Preston have for many years been supplied by the village's own Long Preston Water Trust, an organisation with a history dating back to the late 1800s, when it also provided gas lighting to the village.
A maypole is a feature of the village green alongside the road near one of two village inns, although the Maypole Inn has suffered a long period of closure in recent times as it was put up for sale. The other inn, The Boar's Head, is a long-established hostelry which offers food and accommodation in addition to its ales.
Find out more about the history of Long Preston at the
Long Preston Village and Heritage Group website.
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Travel
Long Preston station


Link to Northern - external website providing information on all services at this station.
Bus travel
The village has buses to neighbouring towns and villages.
Road travel
Long Preston can be reached via the A65 A682 B6478
Places to visit
Yorkshire Dales National Park
Much of the Craven district is within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The National Park offers mountain peaks, beautiful river valleys, attractive villages with country inns, ruined
Malham
Malham is a small village in a hill farming community in the Yorkshire Dales National Park which has for many years attracted tourists, walkers and geographers as the location of some of the country's most magnificent limestone scenery. Find out more about
Bolton Priory
Bolton Abbey, North YorkshireThe beautiful setting at Bolton Abbey in the
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Skipton Castle
Skipton Castle is one of England's best restored medieval castles, standing between the town of
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Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway
Operates from Embsay, about 1.5 miles from Skipton, to Bolton Abbey station about a mile away from the attractive priory ruins and beauty spot beside the River Wharfe at Bolton Abbey. The railway runs trains on most days during the summer and at weekends at other times of year, except January. It also has a range of special weekend events, dining trains and footplate and signal box experience courses. Tank engines are the mainstay of steam operations on the line, but the railway also has a collection of historic diesel locomotives. Also running on the line some days is a restored hybrid electric railcar, which was way ahead of its time when built in York in 1903.
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Ingleborough Cave
Near Clapham
This show cave about a 1-mile walk from the centre of Clapham village is one of the natural wonders of the Yorkshire Dales which has been attracting visitors over a period of 180 years. Underground tours along concrete paths in floodlit passages reveal a world of stalactites and stalagmites. The cave is open daily from mid-February to the end of October. Not to be missed if visiting the cave is Trow Gill, a short walk further up the valley from the cave entrance. The spectacular ravine was carved by the melt waters of the ice age. More information at the

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Kilnsey Park
Kilnsey Park Estate, off B6160 at The scenic Kilnsey Park Estate has a cafe, local produce shop and an activity centre centred around its trout farm, offering fly fishing and family fun fishing lakes. It also offers an insight into nature through its trout raceways, reserve of wildflowers, red squirrel enclosure, butterfly gardens and bee observation hive and has farm animals and children's play areas.
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Stump Cross Caverns
On B6265 Hebden Road, near Greenhow Hill
Situated around 5 miles west-south-west of Pateley Bridge, Stump Cross Caverns are show caves with some impressive stalactites and stalagmites among the limestone features reached by steps leading beneath the ground. A cafe with fine views across the nearby hills is also situated at the show cave entrance. Find on map:
Stump Cross Caverns

Emergency services
North Yorkshire Police 
North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service

Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust

Local government
Civil parish council
Long Preston Parish CouncilProvides some local services in the area.
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District authority
Craven District Council is one of the seven large district authorities within the county of North Yorkshire.
It covers more than 450 square miles of the western area of North Yorkshire with its administrative centre in
It has boundaries with the Richmondshire and Harrogate districts of North Yorkshire, the Bradford district of West Yorkshire and with Lancashire and Cumbria, including parts of both counties which were formerly in the West Riding of Yorkshire. Much of the district is within the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
The council is made up of 30 councillors. They are elected for 4-year terms with one-third of the council elected each year in three out of four years.
The

Link to
Craven District Council website.

The political composition after the May 2019 election was:
County authority
North Yorkshire County CouncilIncludes Craven and six other non-unitary districts of North Yorkshire.

Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner
Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner North YorkshireCovers the county of

