Giggleswick

We were delighted with our visit to Giggleswick, and, crossing the old bridge over the River

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

We turned aside to visit Giggleswick village, with its old cross, which seemed to be nearly complete, and we found the old church very interesting.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

Paley himself narrowly escaped being a baker; here was a decision upon which hung in one scale, perhaps, the immortal interests of thousands, and, in the other, the gratification of the taste of the good people of Giggleswick for hot rolls.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828 Various

The Ribble divides Settle from its former parish church at Giggleswick, and until 1838 the townsfolk had to go over the bridge and along a short lane to the village which held its church.

Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

Giggleswick is also the proud possessor of a school founded in 1512.

Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

At Settle they have been taken from the market square and placed in the court-house, and at Giggleswick one of the first things we see on entering the village is one of the stone posts of the stocks standing by the steps of the market cross.

Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

"Did you tell him about your 'ginger-beers' at Giggleswick?"

Once a Week 1919

_ -- Brown Major, the Captain of Football, has been deputed to ask me if I could arrange a Jumble Sale match against Giggleswick.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 Various 1898

They made me dance with somebody named Giggleswick.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 17, 1914 Various 1898

The Oscar-winner has provided the voice of the Giant in the Stephen Sondheim musical Into the Woods for pupils at the independent Giggleswick School, in Settle, North Yorkshire.

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