High Bentham
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High Bentham | ||
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Statistics | ||
Population: | 3,000 | |
Ordnance Survey | ||
OS grid reference: | SD666693 | |
Administration | ||
District: | Craven | |
Shire county: | North Yorkshire | |
Region: | Yorkshire and the Humber | |
Constituent country: | England | |
Sovereign state: | United Kingdom | |
Other | ||
Ceremonial county: | North Yorkshire | |
Historic county: | North Yorkshire | |
Services | ||
Police force: | North Yorkshire Police | |
Fire and rescue: | {{{Fire}}} | |
Ambulance: | Yorkshire | |
Post office and telephone | ||
Post town: | LANCASTER | |
Postal district: | LA2 | |
Dialling code: | 015242 | |
Politics | ||
UK Parliament: | Skipton and Ripon | |
European Parliament: | Yorkshire and the Humber | |
High Bentham or Higher Bentham is a small town in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England, with a population of around 3,000 people. The town council is known as Bentham Town Council, and also covers Low Bentham.
The town lies on the River Wenning, west of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and on the northern edge of the Forest of Bowland. The original centre lay in Low Bentham, but a market was granted to High Bentham in the fourteenth century, and it became a centre for weaving from the eighteenth century, particularly after weavers in the town discovered how to weave hosepipes from flax.
It is served by Bentham railway station.