The visit of rocky rivers’ gorges had been very fashionable in the early 18th century. The easily accessible places (like Swale and Warfe), were more popular. The main routes to Ramsgill in the first half of the 19th century still had been from Kirkby Malzeard, Coverdale, Kettlewell and Masham. In 1862, a new dole to tourism was opened in the Nidd Valley railway.

Visitors were brought to see the limestone features of the How Stean Gorge, by the Victorian National Science Interest. Like seen for the first time, at the time of stirring the romantic visions, the Gorge was described by the writer George Roberts, as a place, which is absolutely unequalled in Yorkshire, having singularly formed wild beauty.

“A little Switzerland”- that’s what the How Stean Gorge is also called and described. The description is related to the Swiss gorges of the Visp or the Trieste. There was a place, in which the buildings were on different levels. This place is Middlesmoor. It is linked to the hill-top town in the Mediterranean area.

Many years ago, one highwayman sought a refuge in a cave in How Stean Gorge. Therefore, today in the How Stean Gorge, there is a special place, called Tom Taylor’s Cave. Tom Taylor is thought to have scrambled the beck and going to the cave, in his resting ledge, after stealing with his treasure into the night. In the cave he settled down for the night. The legend says, that he has met his dead also in the cave.

Tomas Jackson was a local boy. He lived near the How Stean Gorge. One time, when he played with a friend in the cave, he found 35 silver, and 4 bronze coins. They were stuck in the ledges. This happened in 1868. There is a supposition, that these coins were related with the presence in Greenhow, of a Roman mining colony. Till the present day, the truth about this is a great mystery.