Langcliffe - Yorkshire Dales National Park

Figure 34: Methodist Chapel(left) and Wesleyan House(photo © Gaby Rose, YNDPA,2009)4Slater, Nancy (2000) ‘ABackground to the SocialHistory of Langcliffe’,http://www.langcliffe.net/Background%20Social%20History.html.The residents of Langcliffe are invited to suggest heritage assetsthey think should be included on a local list, and give appropriatereasons, evidence and references for their nominations.e) Local DetailsA seventeenth-century house, now demolished, was the home of theSwainson family. Its date stone of 1660 survives on a later building calledPendeen on Main Street, known locally as the Naked Woman (figure 35),although the stone is clearly a man of the Restoration period with a scrollbearing the initials "L S M S", referring to Lawrence Swainson and hiswife Margaret 4 .Figure 35: Naked Woman datestone (photo © Gaby Rose,YNDPA, 2009)Another detail that contributes to the local distinctiveness of the LangcliffeConservation Area is the sun dial and relief (figure 36) above the twoentrance doors to the Old Vicarage (figure 32).33