Skipton is a country market town, up in the Pennines, at the southern base of the Yorkshire Dales. It's a small, friendly town with a population of around 16,000. It has history, a castle, cobbled streets, ducks and canal boats. It's a pretty town to walk around, and gets thousands of visitors.

Skipton is a town and civil parish within the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England that lies along the River Aire and Leeds and Liverpool Canal. It has a total resident population of 14,313.