Langbar Loop #8: The Hamlet
The 8th cache in the series, a small screw-capped, camo-taped plastic pot, is hidden along Harding's Lane which passes through the hamlet of Langbar.
Note: the terrain rating (1.5) applies to access from the alternative parking, otherwise if doing the cache in sequence it is 2.
See Langbar Loop #1 for background info on the series including a map.
From #7, carry on up to the top of Langbar Lane, then turn right (SE) into Harding's Lane.
Alternative access/parking: if intending to do the cache with #9 or as a one-off, a small space for off-road parking is available @ N 53 57.454 W 1 51.360 - the site of the long gone Methodist Chapel which, from looking at the maps available (see Gallery) was built sometime before 1904 and demolished sometime after 1956.
Langbar is a hamlet located in Harrogate District, Washburn Ward, Skipton & Ripon Constituency, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire & Humber Region.
The word hamlet comes from Anglo-Norman hamelet, corresponding to Old French hamelet, the diminutive of Old French hamel meaning a little village.
In England, it means a house or village without a church, although hamlets are recognised as part of land use planning policies and administration. In modern usage it generally refers to a secondary settlement in a civil parish, after the main settlement (if any).
Hamlets may have been formed around a single source of economic activity such as a farm, mill, mine or
harbour that employed its working population. Some hamlets may be the result of the depopulation of a village. In other cases, because of hilly topography a village may consists of several distinct hamlets.
In this case, the Langbar hamlet comprises the few farms in the neighbourhood - see various maps in the Gallery.
