The Museum of North Craven Life

Lovely Yorkshire specialities, (Scallywags etc) I had rhubarb and ginger scone with Yorkshire tea.

Lovely building with exhibitions about life in the Dales. Tea room was good, freshly baked cakes. Volunteers are really knowledgeable and helpful. Free entry, just asks for donations.

Cute museum with a something for most of us—history about the building itself as well as the area, geology, and local art. Recommended when you have a short time to fill and perhaps would like a nice snack afterward-the carrot cake was delicious.

Beautiful building housing the free museum and adjoining café. Museum and gallery is upstairs with the shop downstairs. Plenty of information boards about local life and when I visited there was a thought provoking exhibition about the plight of the endangered curlew. The RSPB logo is the curlew. And who knew, but in order to survive, only one curlew chick needs to survive every two years - this is not happening. Mousie Thompson furniture about, so keep an eye open for his meeces. Worth a visit, as is the caff next door.

Superb museum which is well laid out and very much better curated than the usual, small town museum. Highlights for me were the sections of the displays dealing with (1) the extraordinary lives of some local women and (2) the building of the Settle to Carlisle railway line. The interactive computer programme on the latter was especially interesting.