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GIGGLEWICK

Volume 7 · 85 words · 1797 Edition

a town in the West Riding of Yorkshire, half a mile from Settle, stands on the river Ribble; where, at the foot of a mountain, is a spring, the most noted in England for ebbing and flowing sometimes thrice in an hour, and the water subsides three quarters of a yard at the reflux, though the sea is 30 miles off. At this town is an eminent free grammar school; and in the neighbourhood are dug up flags, slate, and stone, with a good lime-kiln.