Grassington
Grassington is a lovely large village with plenty of shops, pubs and restaurants. It even has a National Park Visitor center to keep you entertained. Historically, Grassington pre-dates the Normanan Conquest and was granted a charter in 1282 enabling it to hold a weekly market and annual fair, which still held today. In the nineteenth century its agricultural base was supplemented by lead mining (since abandoned) and water-powered corn mills though these too closed after the development of large-scale steam power elsewhere.
Today, it is built round a cobbled market square, which of course isn’t square at all, and which is fringed with a variety of buildings. For example, the seventeenth century Church House, eighteenth century Grassington House with tall sash windows, the Black Horse coaching inn and the Devonshire Arms together with houses, cottages and shops of different type and age.