a town in the west riding of Yorkshire, six miles to the south-east of Skipton in Craven. It stands in a valley surrounded with hills at the meeting of two brooks, which fall into the river Aire one mile below it. Every family is supplied with water brought to or near their doors in stone troughs from a never-failing spring on the west side of it. The parish is six miles long and two broad, and is 60 miles from the east and west seas; yet at the west end of it near Camel-Croft is a rising ground, from which the springs on the east side of it run to the east sea, and those on the west to the west sea. By the late inland navigation, this town has a communication with the rivers Mersey, Dee, Ribble, Ouse, Trent, Darwent, Severn, Humber, Thames, Avon, &c., which navigation, including its windings, extends above 500 miles, in the counties of Lincoln, Nottingham, Lancaster, Westmoreland, Chester, Stafford, Warwick, Leicester, Oxford, Worcester, &c.