Crackpot !

The Yorkshire Dales does have beautiful villages with wonderful names.

And, no I haven’t made it up. It is in Swaledale. Here it is on the map:

Crackpot ©Philip’s Navigator Road Atlas

It’s easy to find. You just follow the sign:

Crackpot village road sign Yorkshire Dales

All Crackpots This Way ©HelenBushe

It’s a tiny village with a few cottages and some barns:

A Barn in Crackpot village Yorkshire Dales iPhoneography

A Barn in Crackpot ©HelenBushe

Crackpot barn tumbledown milk churns Yorkshire Dales humour hamlet village iPhoneography

A Milk Churn in a Window ©HelenBushe

A Crackpot Ruin village hamlet Yorkshire Dales

Cottage with a Ruin in the Garden ©HelenBushe

There is a cottage for sale in the village called Crackpot Cottage ……… though in a Crackpot kind of way, this is NOT it:

Crackpot House Yorkshire Dales humour hamlet village iPhoneography

A Crackpot Dwelling ©HelenBushe

Some Crackpot Sheep:

Crackpot Sheep ©HelenBushe

A Crackpot View:

An Open Gate Crackpot village Yorkshire Dales tourism field landscape

A Crackpot View ©HelenBushe

Click here for a link to the cottage for sale in Crackpot.

Click here for a link to Crackpot Hall, a marvellous ruin I didn’t know existed but found when writing this post.

One final gem; this time from Wikipedia:

Crackpot Cave is located south of Crackpot in Scurvey Scar. It contains a fine example of a column – where a stalactite has joined up with its stalagmite. To get to it you have to pass along the aptly named Knee-wrecker Passage. –Wikipedia

I dedicate this post to Fellow-Crackpots everywhere.

With special thanks to my blogging friend Laurie Graves across the pond in Maine who encourages me in my quest for quirkiness.

Laurie’s writes a great blog called Notes From The Hinterland. She writes about nature, food, the environment, home, family, community, and people. Why not pay her a visit?

19 Comments

Leah · 12 May 2017 at 15:34

Leave it to the UK! Love the place names you lot have.

If I’m ever looking for a name for my place, I could draw some inspiration from this. I think Crackpot Cottage has a certain ring to it.

All of the stone buildings make me swoon.

HMB · 20 May 2017 at 17:21

I’m now on the lookout for more names! I’ll keep you posted!

paulfraser11 · 10 May 2017 at 19:37

haha! well, I never knew this Helen, great pictures and great find 🙂

HMB · 10 May 2017 at 19:40

I think I’d blend in rather well in Crackpot village Thank you as always for your comments.

Laurie Graves · 10 May 2017 at 13:18

Thanks for the shout-out, Helen! I do appreciate it. As for Crackpot—and not once but with several variations—well, it doesn’t get much better. Keep those names coming!

HMB · 10 May 2017 at 13:23

I’ll see what I can do! We’re off tomorrow to Valletta,capital of the island of Malta in the Mediterranean. Camera batteries fully charged! Though still to pack