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A N N Iversar Y Spring 2016 : Issue 134 ING & ENJO CT YI TE NG RO F P O , R G T IN H I IN R T A Y P F M I V A E C Y • E A R A S • N N Y I V R E R S A CAMPAIGN • PROTECT • ENJOY • RISING WATERS • WILD BOAR FELL AND MALLERSTANG – SAFE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS • • RE-WILDING; CONTINUING THE DEBATE • NAVVIES, SHANTY TOWNS AND 'JERICHO' • • MEN OF LEAD • NEW YDS COUNCIL MEMBERS • Cover photo: Malham Cove Waterfall, by Jim Bunting This page: Mallerstang Edge CONTENTS Spring 2016 : Issue 134 RISING WATERS Page 3 DALESWATCH NEWS Page 15 WILDBOAR FELL & CAPTURING MEMORIES MALLERSTANG: Page 4-5 OF NIDDERDALE Page 16 Safe for future generations OUR SOCIETY NEEDS RE-WILDING: Page 6-7 YOUR HELP… Page 17 The debate continues …in finding new members and supporters NAVVIES, SHANTY TOWNS & 'JERICHO' Page 8-9 HALF A LIFETIME Page 17 MEN OF LEAD Page 10-11 NEW YDS BUSINESS MEMBERS & AFFILIATE MEMBER Page 18 TRANSPORT REVOLUTION IN THE DALES: Page 12 YORKSHIRE DALES Local communities take charge SOCIETY EVENTS Page 19 NEW YDS COUNCIL MEMBERS Page 13 WHAT IS THE YORKSHIRE DALES SOCIETY? Page 20 STOP PRESS: Page 13 Two extra walks in Lower Wharfedale FRIENDS FOR LIFE Page 14 Editor Fleur Speakman 2 Email: [email protected] from landslips blocking their routes or even could have a very beneficial effect on the RISING WATERS simply finding visits at the festive season lower lying areas, coupled with additional tree Our spectacular cover picture by Jim Bunting, impossible. Even parts of the Dales Way in cover – all ways of slowing down a potential showing Malham Cove Waterfall as a great Cumbria has had problems, with sections torrent. At present, farming subsidies do not rush of water falling over the Cove, caused of path and even bridges being swept away reward attempts to leave some scrub land by Storm Desmond - is likely to be a once in or declared unsafe, though the YDNPA has or the planting of small areas of woodland, a lifetime experience. Authorities, including taken some enormously helpful remedial which could also help. A subsidy for such the Yorkshire Dales National Park seem to measures to keep the Way open for walkers. efforts would cost society less in the long be unclear when a similar dramatic event Rivers which have their sources in the run. Critically, there is an emphasis on a need occurred, suggesting either the nineteenth uplands, when swollen by continuous heavy for all authorities to work together along the century, or around 1720 and even the last rain, may produce their most catastrophic full course of a river. The National Trust have Ice Age. Exciting as this Cove waterfall was, effects in the larger centres of population recently announced a major scheme on their nevertheless, recent storms and heavy rainfall further down a valley, sometimes aggravated estates in Langstrothdale and the Malham have caused very serious flooding issues, by property built on flood plains or flash Moor plateau to create a mixture of blanket which have affected numerous areas and flooding. In a crisis situation, there is simply bog, heath and grassland to help to reduce communities all over the United Kingdom. nowhere for the water to go, so levels rise downstream flooding and create a more Some of them have undergone repeated at alarming rates, with the results we have diverse habitat. water borne invasion, with huge damage to all seen and strongly sympathised with. The Devon Okehampton project showed how property, businesses, livestock and crops, Perhaps, as has been suggested recently on beaver dams increase water storage capacity, with livelihoods affected and transport links the BBC TV Countryfile , it's not just a matter even the flow of water and improve its at least temporarily curtailed. York, Leeds, of continuing to improve some vital flood quality, with the variety of wild life increasing Calderdale, South Yorkshire and Cumbria defences, with the corollary of steeply rising enormously. Beaver activity here has helped have had a most testing time. Though costs, but also of learning to adapt to an to avoid flooding and dramatically lessened certainly not quite so dramatic, some Dales' increasingly difficult and changing situation. the deposits of nitrogen and phosphate in the communities and those on the edge of the Measures being suggested and tried include remaining water. Dales, have also been directly and indirectly 'catch pools' in the upper reaches of the rivers, affected - needing rescue from vehicles, or streams and other catchment areas, which Fleur Speakman OUR DALES INDUSTRIAL HERITAGE – LEAD MINES, TEXTILE MILLS AND RAILWAY BUILDING Dales farming has contributed so much to our landscape, and still used at various periods to extract the ore. The book focuses on the continues to play a hugely significant part in the Dales economy lead miners themselves and the main Dales' centres of the industry, and protection. However, some significant industries linked to early particularly Grassington, Hebden, and Swaledale. The coming of the industrialisation have also left a distinctive mark on the landscape, in railways and some of the extraordinary efforts that were made to build the shape of actual industrial remains. A talk on the Yorkshire Dales the Ribblehead Viaduct as part of the new Settle-Carlisle rail route to Textile Mills by George Ingle in January this year, hugely impressed the Scottish border, are described on pages 8-9 Navvies, Shanty Towns his listeners as they realised the sheer quantity of these often quite and 'Jericho' - the recent TV series 'Jericho' helped us to appreciate the small-scale and sometimes considerable textile mills throughout various aspects of that considerable achievement. the Dales, and how vital these industries were in giving employment And whilst no one would wish to see the revival of huge, potentially in areas, where it was often a struggle to wring subsistence from the environmentally damaging industries such as mines, quarries, mills land or find other work. A far older industry is focused on by David or even huge new railway viaducts, local employment, especially for Joy's Men of Lead (pages 10-11), as an accompanying article to his young people, remains a key issue in the Yorkshire Dales. utterly fascinating new book with the same title, tracing the rise of lead mining in the Dales and the different techniques which were Fleur Speakman Yorkshire Dales Society 3 WILD BOAR FELL & MALLERSTANG SAFE FOR FUTURE GENERATIONS f, like many Yorkshire Dales Society members, you are The only way to really get to know this area is on foot, and the railway Ialso a regular traveller on the Settle-Carlisle line, you will holds the key. One of the great classic walks of the North of England is know, as you travel north, that there are three especially to escape from the railway carriage by alighting at Garsdale Station – in memorable scenic highlights along the line – the long ascent reality over two miles from the scattered village it is supposed to serve. of Ribblesdale between the Three Peaks, culminating at You follow footpaths through Grisedale onto Grisedale Common Ribblehead Viaduct itself; that heart-stopping moment and then head over rough pasture, now access land, ascending to when you emerge from Blea Moor tunnel to gaze down into your first peak, Swarth Fell. From here you are now into the new area the fertile pastures of Dentdale - but maybe most dramatic of all, the views that appear to your right during that of the National Park.You follow the great ridge above Mallerstang, amazing journey through Mallerstang as the train eases with superb views of the Howgills to the west, up onto the high level over Ais Gill summit and starts the long descent through the summit plateau of Wild Boar Fell itself, where the Trig point (708 Eden Valley. metres) is a welcome way-mark - especially in misty conditions. As well as spectacular views down into the Mallerstang valley with what With the great, distinctively stepped outline of Wild Boar Fell to your appears to be a miniature railway below, if you are lucky enough to left and the huge green slope of Mallerstang Edge to your right, this is enjoy a clear day, you can see across the Solway Firth to the summit a truly epic landscape; the superbly engineered railway line carving its of Criffel in Dumfriesshire. The descent is due north, still on the ridge, way along the mountainside as you head towards Kirkby Stephen. over the third round summit of Little Fell, then heading down to It seems inconceivable that this amazing landscape was not always Wharton, Nateby and Kirkby Stephen Station. part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park; a decision based not on Mallerstang can also be accessed from Garsdale or by strong walkers landscape quality, but bureaucratic convenience and artificial local even from Hawes via Cotterdale, Cotter End, using the ancient green authority boundaries. But from August 1st this year, everything will road known as The High Way, now part of the Pennine Bridleway. This change. Mallerstang, Wild Boar Fell and the Upper Eden form part of leads past the evocatively named Hell Gill, source of the Eden, before the iconic area now included and protected within the newly extended descending into the hamlet of Mallerstang itself. Riverside paths lead Yorkshire Dales National Park boundary. along the valley past the ruins of Pendragon Castle, according to local legend, birthplace of a Celtic prince, Uther Pendragon, father of the legendary King Arthur. 4 Email: [email protected] Wild Boar Profile Stenkrith Gorge Wharton Hall Keen fell walkers can also leave The Highway, north of Hell Gill to But the National Park now has a new northern gateway – Kirkby ascend and follow the long line of high crags that forms Mallerstang Stephen, in the Upper Eden valley, a busy former coaching town on Edge up to High Seat (709 metres), from where, in contrast to Wild the trans-Pennine A685 road, noted for its fine parish church, with Boar Fell, on clear days you can almost make out the glint of sunlight its distinctive red sandstone “cloisters” and, inside the church, the on the North Sea beyond Teesside.
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