Linton Falls

One last set of waterfalls pics from my holiday. 

This time from the small hamlet of Linton near Grassington, where the river Wharfe tumbles over man-made weirs, and rests serenely in the mill pond above.

Linton today is a quiet slumbering sort of place, apart perhaps from if/when the tourists descend in summer, but it gives the impression of having once been a bustling place of whirring mill-wheels.

Early in the 1900s the building on the far side of this weir was set up to produce electricity, but fell into disuse after the development of the National Grid. Now the building has been renovated and new 'screw' style turbines installed, and it's producing power once again.

There were footpaths we could have explored on both banks of the river, but as this was just a short stop on our homeward journey I didn't have time to wander further, before heading back up the path to Grassington. This is definitely somewhere I want to come back to though, not only to walk along the riverside, but to find out more about the history of the area.