The ride for today was a short one, the ride is only around 12 miles but the ride takes in some breathtaking countryside. The mis-shaped group all met at Clapham. Clapham is a small village in the Craven District of North Yorkshire. The church of St. James in Clapham was founded in Norman times, and was originally dedicated to St. Michael. It is mentioned in records dating back to 1160. Unfortunately, it and the rest of the village were burned during a Scottish raid following the Battle of Bannockburn in the early 14th-century. The church tower was probably erected following this incident, but the rest of the church only dates from the 19th-century. In the 14th century John de Clapham, who took his surname from the village, was a supporter of the earl of Warwick and lived at Clapdale Castle. His ancestors also took part in the Wars of the Roses, albeit on the side of the House of Lancaster.

Since the 18th century Clapham has been home to the Farrer family who established their Ingleborough estate. The family owns and is responsible for much of the land, walls, woods, fields and moors of the village, surrounding countryside and farms.

Electricity has been generated on the Ingleborough estate since 1893. There is still an operating water turbine-powered generator at the top of the village next to the waterfall. It was installed in 1948. Originally it supplied the church, Ingleborough Hall, Home Farm and 13 street lights. There is another turbine in the sawmill, which is also still in use although it is now helped by an electric motor when the larger saw is in use.

In August 1947 the Trow Ghyll skeleton was discovered in a cave above the village. Although the identity of the body has never been ascertained, it has been claimed that they were those of a German spy. The unexplained death has been described as "the most notable" mystery over a possible Nazi agent in Britain.

Running through the village is Clapham Beck. This is fed from Fell Beck which starts on the slopes of Ingleborough and sinks into Gaping Gill, England's highest waterfall, where Fell Beck drops 110 metres vertically down a pothole, and exits via Ingleborough Cave into Clapham Beck. The beck

Clapham lies on the Craven fault zone. This is a complex geological fault which marks the division of the sandstone rocks of the Bowland area and the limestone of the Ingleborough area.

We then rode into Feizor, now Feizor is somewhere between a hamlet and a village, and is, for those interested in Ordnance Survey maps, to be found at SD790677, between Austwick and Giggleswick/Settle in the "Three Peaks" sector of the Yorkshire Dales - but nicely hidden from the A65.

It is a very old place. The name is apparently made up of an Old Irish personal name "Fiach" and the Old Norse word "erg", meaning "sheiling" (source), which itself can mean hut, small-holding, etc.. So Feizor was in fact Fiach's Pad, and there is a house in Feizor with the word "Sheiling" in its name.

Many of the houses, such as Old Hall Farm (on the right as you enter Feizor), are extremely old (Elizabethan) although this is not always obvious as there has been a bit of a surge in renovation and conversion. This seems to have happened particularly since the foot and mouth epidemic and the subsequent (apparent) relaxation of planning controls for barn conversions and the like.

Then it was off up to Thwaite Scar….and a long descent back down into Clapham, an excellent ride, not to far but is very much steeped in history.