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Cross Hills is a village in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England that is situated halfway between Skipton and Keighley. ==Location== Geographically, Cross Hills is in Airedale at a point where the River Aire bends east from its north-south course. The village lies on the south bank of the river just above the flood plain, which is wholly agricultural. As its name implies, Cross Hills is surrounded by the hills of the eastern Pennines including Steeton Moor (south-east), Cowling Moor (south-west), White Hill (north-west) and Kildwick Moor (north-east). There are views along the Aire Valley itself to the north and east. Rombalds Moor, between Silsden and Ilkley, is about six miles east of Cross Hills. Skipton is about four miles north and the hills of the Yorkshire Dales can be seen beyond it. The village is overlooked by two monuments called the Pinnacles which stand above crags on the Cowling Moor skyline. These are small towers: Sutton Pinnacle is square with internal staircase and topped by a crenelated parapet; Cowling Pinnacle is an obelisk. They are known locally as the Salt Pot and Pepper Pot. Sutton pinnacle, called Lund's Tower, was built in 1896 by James Lund of Malsis Hall (now Malsis School) to commemorate Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee. Cowling pinnacle (or Wainman's Pinnacle) was built in 1816 by Richard Wainman to commemorate victory at the Battle of Waterloo the previous year (in which his son was killed). The village is adjacent to Glusburn, which lies immediately to the west. Kildwick is due north of Cross Hills on the other side of the River Aire. Sutton-in-Craven is less than a mile to the south-west and Eastburn less than a mile to the south-east. Cross Hills is separated from Sutton-in-Craven and Eastburn by the beck which flows into the Aire just east of Cross Hills. The beck is known by various names: Surgill Beck, Holme Beck and Eastburn Beck. It forms part of the county boundary between North and West Yorkshire as it approaches the Aire, Eastburn being in West Yorkshire. Cross Hills is split by the Airedale Line of the former Midland Railway. The biggest part is south of the railway and is largely residential with most of the shops and restaurants on or near Main Street (the A6068). North of the railway, former farmland has been given over to light industry and commerce but with some residential property on Station Road which connects the A6068 and the A629. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cross Hills」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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