Giggleswick, West Riding

Description
Giggleswick, a village, a township, and a parish in the W. R. Yorkshire. The village stands on the river Eibble, and has a station on the M.R., 1 mile WNW of Settle; was entered in Domesday Book as Ghiggleswick^ is neatly built, and has a post, money order, and telegraph office under Settle. The township includes the village, contains Settle workhouse, and comprises 4338 acres; population of the civil parish, 1015; of the ecclesiastical, 958. Catteral Hall and Beck House are chief residences. The manor belongs to the Dukeof Devonshire. Near the village there was until recently a lake, called Giggleswick Tarn, partly natural, partly artificial; and about a mile distant, under a limestone rock called Giggleswick Scar, is the famed " ebbing and flowing" well. This is a well of limpid water which fitfully rises and falls as muchas 12 inches, sometimes as often as every six minutes, but commonly not oftener than four or five times a day. The rocks consist of mountain limestone and good building grit £tone, and rise in some parts into picturesque cliffs. Roman coins have been found. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Ripon; gross yearly value, £418. A church is supposed to have existed existed here from Saxon times; the first Norman church was granted to the priory of Finchale, in the 12th century. This was razed to the ground and another one erected on the same site, which was rebuilt about the time of Henry VIII.; consists of nave, chancel, transept, and porch, with embattled tower; contains several ancient effigies of the Tempest family, sepulchral slabs, brasses, and a handsome oak pulpit dating from 1680. The building was restored ,inl892, at a total cost of nearly £5000. A grammar school in the village was founded in 1507 by the Rev. James Can', ^.nd afterwards endowed by Edward VI.; has an endowed income of nearly £1100, with two exhibitions at Christ's College, Cambridge; was conducted for nearly half a century by Archdeacon Paley's father, and had the Archdeacon himself for a pupil. There are several valuable charities.