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.

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