Ingleton, North Yorkshire

54.152415 - 2.470381Koordinaten: 54 ° 9 ' N, 2 ° 28 ' W

Ingleton is a village with 2000 inhabitants (2001) in North Yorkshire, England. The location on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales is a starting point for the ascent of the mountain Ingleborough, which rises near the settlement.

The River Greta is crossed in Ingleton Ingleton from the viaduct. The viaduct was built in 1858-1860 by the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway. As the track via Ingleton on 16 September 1861, the then shortest route between London and Scotland went into operation, was the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway, which was to operate the route south of the viaduct absorbed into the London and North Western Railway ( LNWR ) and the northern port was operated instead of the North Western Railway by the Midland Railway. Since the Midland Railway but worked with the Great Northern Railway, which was a main competitor of the London and North Western Railway in traffic between London and Scotland, Ingleton has been a bone of contention between the two companies. The LNWR did everything that there was no direct connecting flight between it and the trains of the Midland Railway and the passengers had to walk over the viaduct, as both companies had set up on their respective end its own train station. Only when a new route was planned, guided the LNWR in negotiations with their competitors and in 1865 had the complaints against the maladministration in Ingleton an end and the trains from the south crossed the viaduct although the southern station remained on a breakpoint. The regularly scheduled passenger traffic over the viaduct was discontinued in 1954. By 1967, even perverse excursion trains and freight trains, but then the line was dismantled.

In the near Ingleton there are tourist accessible White Scar Caves and Ingleborough Cave and Gaping Gill cave. In the limestone landscape surrounding the site, there are numerous other caves that are experienced cavers accessible.

A popular short hike of Ingleton is the 8-km long Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, which runs along the rivers Twiss and Doe as a circular route back to town.