Ingleton is a compact village on the western edge of the Yorkshire Dales, tucked beneath some of the finest limestone scenery in England. Two rivers, the Twiss and the Doe, converge just outside the village and between them define much of what draws visitors here.
The Ingleton Waterfalls Trail follows both rivers through a sequence of cascades, the most famous of which is Thornton Force — a wide curtain of water over a limestone lip, with a path that takes you behind the fall itself. Between the two river gorges, the open limestone pavements of Twistleton Scars offer a very different kind of walking: stark, almost lunar, and largely unvisited. Ingleborough, the distinctive flat-topped hill that looms directly above the village, rewards the climb with an Iron Age hillfort at the summit and views across the Dales and to the Lake District on a clear day.
White Scar Cave, a few kilometres along the road towards Hawes and Gayle, is the longest show cave open to the public in Britain and worth an hour underground. A national park information point operates from the main car park in the village centre.