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Simply follow the riverbank upstream, keeping an eye open for the birdlife all around, and when you reach a shallow weir, spend a moment or two seeing if you can spot fish trying to leap up the mini-waterfall. A short way further on, the path briefly moves inland to cross a footbridge spanning Artle Beck, a hazard that until recent times you had to chance on stepping stones.

Continue past an aqueduct, and then cling to the course of the river as it sweeps round, with Ingleborough, one of Yorkshire’s ‘Three Peaks’, in the far distance. After passing through a gate, the riverside path becomes a wide stony track that soon moves away from the river, heading towards the village of Caton.

First recorded in the Domesday book, the name ‘Caton’ is believed to stem from either ‘Kati’ (Old Norse) or ‘C(e)atta’ (Old English), probably the name of an early settler. The Romans were present here, as evidenced by the discovery of a Roman milestone in Artle Beck. In more recent times, following the industrial revolution, the village grew to support several cotton mills – for example, Low Mill off Mill Lane.