Giggleswick, Settle, North Yorkshire

Giggleswick is the village just across the River Ribble from Settle. It has many old and interesting buildings, but is most famous for Giggleswick School, around which the village is built.

View over Gigglewick Village
Statues outside the main school building
Giggleswick School Chapel
Giggleswick School cricket pitch and pavillion

Many houses in the village are ony accessed via bridges over Tems Beck which runs into the River Ribble.

A tourist
Built in 1689
Saint Alkelda’s Church, Giggleswick
The offatory box

It is hard to believe that people have been putting money in this box since 1684

The organ and pulpit
Two kettledrums in the church
Looking over towards Pendle Hill and our journey home

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