CHILDREN in Ingleton are asked to turn detective to solve clues in the village's new heritage trail.

Youngsters from the village's primary and middle schools helped to compile the new trail, which follows the same route as the adults' heritage trail.

There are two sets of clues - an animal-themed trail and another looking for date stones.

Artwork and poetry by local pupils complements the trail leaflet, which features a map produced by local illustrator and architect James Innerdale.

The whole project was made possible by the Ingleton Regeneration Association working with Sue Manson, of the Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust and with funding from Yorkshire Forward, Craven District Council and the North Yorkshire Small Projects Fund.

Mary Kendall, who co-ordinated the project, thanked everyone involved and especially all the children who had taken part in workshops around the theme "What Ingleton means to Me", to help devise the trail.

Potter Lee Cartledge and poet Paul Farley had worked with the youngsters on the project, hosting an all-day mosaic workshop.

Mrs Kendall said: "Lots of people said how good the adult heritage trail was and then we decided there would be one for the young people to do too. They have to go out and investigate and look at things and I hope they enjoy doing it."

The trail is for visitors to Ingleton as well as villagers themselves, and Mrs Kendall hoped locals would discover plenty they didn't already know about Ingleton by doing the trail.

The trail follows a route from the Ingleborough Community Centre along Bank Top, down the hill and over the River Twiss then back up to the church, The Square and up Seed Hill, past the Wheatsheaf, before completing the circuit down Back Gate to the community centre.

The Ingleton Regeneration Association was set up after the foot and mouth outbreak to look at ways of improving the village, attracting visitors back to Ingleton and making life better for local people.

The chairman of Ingleton Parish Council and the Regeneration Association, Coun Phil Walker, cut a ribbon to launch the children's trail.