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CW81: Chapel-le-Dale Church

A new book on small places of worship has picked St Leonard’s, Chapel-le-Dale, as one of Britain’s finest examples. Sitting high in the Dales, north of Ingleton, this beautiful church began life as a chapel of ease for isolated farming folk in the 17th century. It then served as a graveyard for the Settle to Carlisle railway workers and their families who lived in a nearby shanty town while building the Ribblehead Viaduct and nearby Blea Moor tunnel. A stone memorial to those workers is held within the church.

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