High Bentham

High Bentham is a small market town with a wide range of shops including a Post Office, two bakeries, butchers, two small supermarkets and an 18 hole golf course.

Bentham livestock auction is nationally renowned centre for sheep and cattle sales.

There are many country pubs in the area, offering considerable choice and a good range of restaurants to suit every taste within easy reach.

There is a Chinese and an Indian takeaway in High Bentham and a fish and chip shop.

We are on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and the Lake District is within easy reach.

Ingleton, just over four miles away at the foot of Ingleborough, offers dramatic scenery with spectacular waterfalls and caves. The area is renowned as the site where the ‘Three Peaks Fell Race’ is run annually.

There are countless opportunities for walking in the local countryside, in the nearby dales, and in the Lakes; there are wonderful estuaries, river walks, fells, pot-holes, and, for the more adventurous, rock faces to be climbed.

Permits are available for fishing in local ponds, reservoirs and rivers, the latter supporting trout, and migratory sea trout and salmon.

The nearest RSPB reserve is at Leighton Moss and the west coast, so renowned for its wading birds, is just 15 miles away.

At Settle there is a falconry centre where you can watch birds of prey in action.

The city of Lancaster (12 miles away) has cinemas and theatres and many historic sites well worth a visit.