OF THE DISTRICT. 
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In the lower parts of Craven, lying between the Kibble on the west 
and the group of Pendle hill and the border of the Yorkshire coalfield 
on the east, the elevations are of small importance. The aspect of the 
country is however singularly undulated by a multitude of small round 
hills or oval ridges. 
Between the parallel Craven faults, the district from Ingleton to 
Settle seldom exceeds 1000 feet in height: Feizer hill (limestone) 
is 1109 feet (N.) East of the Kibble, Malham tarn is 1249 (N.) and 
Kirby fell (limestone) is about 1800 feet (N.) South of the Craven 
faults is a narrow band of elevated gritstone country, which, from Gig- 
gles wick and Settle eastward to the Wharfe, presents a singular rivalry 
to the limestone band between the faults. Thus at Giggleswick scar the 
grit is opposed to the limestone, (both about 1000 feet high), so Ryeloaf 
1795 (N.) opposes the limestone of Kirby moor .1800, and the grit of 
Brown hill 1258 (N.) meets the limestone of Boardley, 1352 (N.) 
Border of' the Yorkshire Coalfield. 
This border is formed of the millstone grit series resting on the 
Craven shales, which, only in Lothersdale and the Skipton ridge, 
are excavated so as to shew the subjacent great limestone. Con- 
tinuous with the analogous mountains of Derbyshire the gritstone 
border of south-western Yorkshire ranges N. N. W. and dips to the 
east, from near Hathersage to Boulsworth hill. It then begins to veer 
round to the north, turns parallel to the Skipton anticlinal, and follows 
the south bank of the Wharfe, but spreads outliers, to the north of 
that river, parallel to the Greenhow limestone ridge. 
The loftiest point of Derbyshire, Kinder Scout, 2150 feet (O. S.) 
is not equalled by any of the Yorkshire mountains on this range. Bouls- 
worth is 1689 (O. S,) and Sutton crags 1161 (N.) Between Airedale 
and Wharfedale the long continuous ridge slopes in general eastward ; 
at Shode bank E. S. E. of Skipton 1223 feet (N.) Draughton hill 
nearer Wharfedale 1074 (N.) Rombald’s moor 1308 (O. S ) or 1318 
(N.) Otley Chevin 921 (N.) Otley Chevin inn 799- Rawdon Billing 
769 (N.) 
