Troller’s Gill: The legendary Yorkshire gill which is home to a mythical monstrous black dog

Troller’s Gill is a gorge near to the village of Skyreholme which is a hamlet in Wharfedale.

It was also an old lead mine that was last worked in the 1960s.

Legend has it that the gill is the home of the mythical monstrous black dog Barghest who can turn one to stone with a look.

Other local tales are that trolls lived in the gorge (hence its name) and would push stones down from the deep sides to people travelling up and down the gorge.

It has influenced books and television as it is said that the Barghest story was a major influence on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle when he was writing The Hound of the Baskervilles which was published in The Strand Magazine from August 1901 to April 1902.

It is also said to have influence Roger and the Rottentrolls, a fictional children's television program which takes the name of its setting from Troller’s Gill even though it was filmed at Brimham Rocks.

There are several caves in the gorge.

The largest is a pothole known as Hell Hole, which is 55 metres deep and has 210 metres of passages. The cave was first explored in 1896.