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Leeds
is situated at the southern tip of The Yorkshire Dales.
The Yorkshire Dales is a vast imposing landscape with
areas of great beauty and little villages full of charm.
If you don’t know where to begin a trip to the Dales
Countryside Museum, based at Hawes, Wensleydale, is
an ideal starting point from which to discover the story
of the people and industries that helped shape this dramatic
landscape.
Here are just a few of the stunning places you should
visit on your Dales journey.
Gaping
Ghyll is one of the most famous caves in Great Britain.
The imposing cave provides spectacular scenery but unless
you’re an experienced pot-holer with a permit it’s
advisable to stay clear of the interior without an official
guide. Visitors can take a guided tour around the main
chamber during May and August bank holidays when “winch
meets” take place.
Kilnsey Crag
in Wharfedale, is a huge overhanging landmark, and a particular
favourite with rock climbers, again it is advisable to
look and not touch. Kilnsey Crag can be viewed from around
the pretty village of Wharfedale.
Buttertubs
Pass is a high mountain road which leads across the
moors from Muker and Thwaite in Swaledale to Hardraw
and Hawes in Wensleydale. The pass gets its name
because near its summit the road is flagged by fluted
limestone potholes are known as the “Buttertubs”.
Devil’s Arrows is one of The Dales’
most famous sights. A group of three stones that point
skywards, the Arrows are said to have mythical properties.
Legend has it that the site’s name comes from an
account of the Devil trying to fire arrows at the nearby
Christian settlement at Aldborough from Howe Hill, the
arrows falling short and landing in a line in the field.
From Bolton Abbey in North Yorkshire a pleasant
riverside walk leads through woods to the Strid, a notorious
stretch of water where the River Wharfe is forced into
a deep and narrow thundering channel.
The curious rock formations at Brimham in Nidderdale
are scattered over some 50 acres on Brimham Moor and
provide a great variety of weird and wonderful shapes.
Many of the rocks suggest all manner of things, including
animals and mushrooms and some are said to have associations
with druids, Mother Shipton and even the Devil himself.
Swaledale is one of the Yorkshire Dales
most popular and visited villages famed for its wool-making
and the sheep that graze on the wild higher slopes. The
fast-moving river Swale runs through Swaledale and travels
along through rugged landscape.
Wharfedale
is the largest of the Yorkshire Dales and is famous for
its cheese and being the place in which James Herriot
set his famous books. Visitors flock from far and wide
to see the landscape made famous by the BBC TV programme
“All Creatures Great And Small”. Wharfedale
makes the perfect place for a walking holiday and has
some fantastic designated routes.
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