Nappa

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Nappa
Yorkshire
West Riding
Countryside south from Flambers Hill - geograph.org.uk - 211442.jpg
Near Flambers Hill, by Nappa
Location
Grid reference: SD855534
Location: 53°58’37"N, 2°13’16"W
Data
Post town: Skipton
Postcode: BD23
Local Government
Council: Craven
Parliamentary
constituency:
Skipton and Ripon

Nappa is a hamlet in the West Riding of Yorkshire, in Ribblesdale and within the part of the riding known as Craven.

The hamlet is on the A682 road and 6 miles northwest of Barnoldswick and 10½ miles west of Skipton. The River Ribble flows by the village.

In 1870-1872, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales had little to say of Nappa:

NAPPA, a township in Gisburn parish, W. R. Yorkshire; on the river Ribble, 3 miles N E of Gisburn. Acres, 578. Real property, £622. Pop., 31. Houses, 5.[1]

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References

  1. Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1870-2