Lothersdale is a small village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. Situated near Skipton and located within the triangle formed by Skipton, Cross Hills and Colne. It is a small community of about 200 houses but local amenities include a park, church, chapel, pub, village hall, Clubhouse and (Ofsted 'Outstanding') primary school. The Pennine Way runs through it. On the site of a former lime and baryte quarry, is Raygill Lakes. It was the first site studied by the Yorkshire Geological Society in 1875. Mammalian and Marine fossils were discovered here.