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The busy town of Skipton, positioned in the Aire Gap, the entrance to the ancient routeway across the Pennines, is an excellent centre for exploring the Southern Dales. There is a long history of settlement here, and the town has seen many peoples come and go. The Mesolithic hunters, the Bronze Age traders and the ancient British tribe of the Brigantes all inhabited the area in their turn, but it was the later Angles, Danes and Norsemen who cleared the area of its forest and made the first villages. Skipton itself was a small village in Anglian times, probably named ‘Scepton’ (Sheep town).
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