Austiwck is a quiet and attractive tradiitional Yorkshire village with a backdrop of rolling limestone hills running along the Craven Fault. The area just outside the Austwick is popular with geologists, cavers and walkers. Of particular interest are the Norber Erratics, a group of boulders which were deposited on eroding limestone pedestals by the retreating Crummackdale Glacier at the end of the last Ice Age.
Also of interest is the lunar-like limestone plateau of Moughton, with its dry waterfalls, limestone pavements, clints and grykes.
Austwick is also known as the Cuckoo Village, as it holds an annual Cuckoo Festival and street market each May.
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