Local Architecture and Amenities
The village has two pubs, The Crown Hotel and The Golden Lion, a village store as well as a cafe and tea rooms. The village post office that was previously located in the village store is now located in the Crown Hotel. In 2006 a villager controversially installed a radio telescope.
The Grade I listed village church is dedicated to St Oswald. It has a complete Norman nave, south door and tub-font and is the most complete of the Norman churches built in the Yorkshire Dales after the Norman conquest and the Harrying of the North that followed. The square tower was built later. The lychgates to enter the churchyard are roofed with slabs of Horton slate.
Other buildings in Horton are typical of the area. 17th century yeomens' farmhouses can be found on the edge of the village, and later cottages can be seen nearer the centre of the village. In the 1870s the new railway prompted the building of Victorian terraced housing. Later the local quarrying of limestone led to the building of housing for the quarrymen.
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