Kex Gill Bypass

The Kex Gill Bypass is a future stretch of A-road across Kex Gill Moor to Blubberhouses in North Yorkshire, England. The route is part of the A59 road across the Pennines between Preston and York, with the Kex Gill Bypass being located within the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The bypass is required as the 1820s built bypass is prone to landslips and road cracking, which accounted for eight weeks of closure in 2016. It is expected to be 4.8 kilometres (3 mi) long and to be opened in spring 2026.

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St Andrew's Church, Blubberhouses

St Andrew's Church is the parish church of Blubberhouses, a village in North Yorkshire in England. The church was commissioned by Louisa Frankland Russell, as a chapel of ease to St Michael and St Lawrence's Church, Fewston. It was designed by Edward Buckton Lamb in the Early English style, and was completed in 1851. The church was Grade II listed in 1987. The church is built of gritstone and has a stone slate roof. It consists of a three-bay nave with a north aisle, a three-bay chancel, and a northwest steeple and porch. The steeple has a tower with two stages, stepped angle buttresses, tall lancet bell openings, deep corbelled eaves and a tall pyramidal spire with lucarnes and a finial. The porch is up seven steps, and is entered under a pointed arch with a chamfered surround. Most of the windows have trefoil heads. Inside, the nave has a stone floor and oak pews, which were relocated from the old church at Thirkleby. There is a hammerbeam roof, with a king post structure, an experiment by Lamb to ensure that the altar can be seen from every location in the church. To aid this, the aisle is separated from the nave by a single pillar. The altar rail and pulpit are made of oak and date from the 17th century.

Blubberhouses

Blubberhouses is a small village and civil parish in the Washburn Valley in North Yorkshire, England. The population as at the 2011 Census was less than 100, so details were included in the civil parish of Fewston. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population of the parish to be 40. Blubberhouses is within the Nidderdale National Landscape and is east of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It lies on the A59 road linking Harrogate to Skipton, and to the north of a Roman road and Fewston Reservoir.

Thruscross Reservoir

Thruscross Reservoir is the northernmost of four reservoirs in the Washburn Valley, lying north of Otley and west of Harrogate in North Yorkshire, England, near the hamlet of Thruscross. It can be found on an unclassified road from the A59 road (where the road from Otley joins). Permission to construct the reservoir was granted via a water order in 1960 and Thruscross was completed in 1966, much later than the other three reservoirs which date back to the nineteenth century.

West End, Yorkshire

West End was a village in the Washburn Valley of the West Riding of Yorkshire, which was depopulated when the valley was flooded to form Thruscross Reservoir in the 1960s. The village was 4 miles (6.4 km) south-west of Dacre (its nearest railway station), 5 miles (8 km) south of Pateley Bridge, and 10 miles (16 km) north of Otley. A hamlet called West End still exists in the area, and is to the south-west of the reservoir.