scattered remains of former industry, Swaledale & Arkengarthdale including Old Gang Lead Mine and Grinton Smelt Mill. Find out about the harsh life of a miner at Swaledale Museum The two most northerly dales in the Upper Swaledale and test your off-road in Reeth. National Park are an iconic farming cycling skills - bring your own bikes, or landscape of field barns and drystone walls. hire them from Dales Bike Centre in Reeth. The busy village of Reeth with its large village green has shops showcasing local At the head of Swaledale is the tiny village Following the River Swale along the valley arts and crafts, while Richmond’s of Keld - you can explore its history at you will encounter many pretty little impressive Norman castle dominates this Keld Countryside & Heritage Centre. In villages, including Thwaite, Muker and market town’s skyline. the winter months the village operates a Gunnerside. There are fantastic shops, self-service tearoom for walkers with an cafés and pubs to enjoy. Have a drink at The Buttertubs Pass was a famous climb honesty box and a magical supply of the Tan Hill Inn - the highest pub in Great on the Tour de France Grand Depart in homemade cakes. Britain - or a delicious evening meal at the 2014, and the dales are home to the CB Inn in remote Arkengarthdale. annual Swaledale Festival which takes The village is a crossing point for three place over two weeks each May. long-distance walks: the Pennine Way, the On the moor tops you’re likely to see the Coast to Coast, and the more-recently hardy Swaledale sheep, the emblem for Find out more at www.swaledale.net i devised Herriot Way. It is also at one end the National Park. In the valley bottoms, of the new Swale Trail - a 20km (12mile) the stunning wildflower haymeadows are route for mountain bikes starting from at their best in early summer. Throughout Reeth. It’s a great way to experience the area, you will come across the Muker Show STARTS 10.00 Traditional Yorkshire Show Wednesday 4th September 2019 Muker Village - Swaledale
Sheep, Muker Silver Band, children’s games, fell race, and more.
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Copper • Freshly-ground coffee and Kettle Flat - speciality teas self-catering holiday let • Locally-sourced and freshly overlooking prepared breakfasts, lunches the Green Situated in Upper Swaledale, our new and snacks venue is available to book for social • Delicious home-made cakes events, meetings, workshops etc. • Decaf, gluten-free, vegetarian MANSE HOLIDAY COTTAGE: An ideal base and vegan options for walking holidays or simply relaxing. • Well-behaved dogs welcome 10% discount available on bookings. Contact Helen and quote ‘Visitor’. Open: 10am - 4.30pm TheCopperKettleReeth Thursday to Monday Email: [email protected] Mobile: 07790 401476 • keld.org.uk (closed Tuesday and Wednesday) www.thecopperkettlereeth.co.uk
Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 47 Access Ranger Calum Stott farms a small flock of sheep near Orton. He wrote this poem inspired by the rugged landscape and way of life in the Cumbrian area of the National Park where he lives and works. “On Christmas Eve I took the chance to inspect a section of footpath going up over Middleton Fell. I’m not much of a poet or a writer of any means, but the words just sort of came to me as I was walking up there on my own.” We think it’s rather wonderful!
A Bleating
Place Swaledale sheep (danscape.co.uk) The sheep all had a meeting, Atop a lonely hill. LANGTHWAITE, ARKENGARTHDALE To discuss their existence, KEARTON And all the worldly ills. Featured in several films and TV series… Country Hotel They covered every topic, THWAITE Religion, famine, war. RED LION INN Thwaite in Swaledale, Richmond DL11 6DR Conversation soon did turn to, Tel: 01748 886277 Email: [email protected] What they’d been placed here for? BOOKS www.keartoncountryhotel.co.uk The Suffolks talked of eating grass, & MAPS for sale Until the day was done. Breath-taking views The Texels spoke of show sales, of Upper Swaledale Bar snacks from the restaurant And red rosettes they’d won. all year serving coffees, The group of Bluefaced Leicesters, round lunches, high teas & Couldn’t see the point at all, evening meals. Licensee: Mrs R. Hutchinson F.B.I.I. Ideal for walkers, Of carrying on living, photographers, If the sky was doomed to fall. Tel: 01748 884218 cyclists & bird A minority of rare breeds, Fax: 01748 884133 watchers. Walking groups welcome. Wouldn’t stop to think, Email: [email protected] TEA ROOMS • LICENSED RESTAURANT Of current situations, www.langthwaiteredlion.co.uk 12 EN-SUITE BEDROOMS Just their prehistoric links. The remaining congregation, Herdwicks, Roughs and Swales, Having barely spoke a single word, Proceed to tell their tale. 01748 850123 Each knew the route to happiness, And the point to all their strife. Long days spent wandering the fells, Were the best times of their life. So if ever you’re feeling lost, ARTISAN BAKERY Or can’t hold back the tears. Think like a hardy hill sheep, AND CAFÉ Freshly crafted breads, sweet A farmer’s had to shear. and savoury pastries Climb up on a mountain top, Visit us at the Reeth Dales Look at the world below. Centre, DL11 6SP A day spent walking in the clouds, Will stop you feeling low. © Calum Stott www.twodalesbakery.co.uk 01748 905001
48 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk Frenchgate Guest House has real REETH character and ambience, with the “Best View in Richmond” SHOW A short walk down Frenchgate leads to the historic and beautiful heart of Richmond MONDAY 26TH AUGUST 2019 and the Georgian cobbled marketplace, A traditional Dales Show and a great day out offering a variety of independent shops, cafes, bistros, restaurants and pubs. for all the family in beautiful Swaledale. Shows, Displays, Stalls and Refreshments. Tel: 01748 823421 For further enquiries phone 07506 380393, Mob: 07982 321 123 email [email protected] or visit Email: [email protected] www.reethshow.co.uk Web: 66frenchgate.com
free forentry under 16s An absorbing story of courage, friendship, service and sacrifice.
Special Exhibitions 2019 • Aftermath: living through the peace until 27 May • Hostile Environment: The British in Russia 28 June to 21 December www.greenhowards.org.uk
Richmond, North Yorkshire
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Dragon pub with its own micro-brewery, as well as the village’s centrepiece - a memorial fountain to its most famous son, Adam Sedgwick, considered the founding father of modern geology. The Dent Heritage Centre is packed with artefacts explaining the history of the dale and its people, including the mining of the black Dent marble and the story of the ‘terrible knitters of Dent’.
Visit www.dentdale.com and i www.sedbergh.org.uk for more information.
Home cooking using fresh local produce Free Wi-Fi Dog friendly Food served all day Fully licenced www.smattsduo.co.uk
Walker and writer Alfred Wainwright in England at 1,100 feet and a stop on the Open Mon 9am - 4pm, Tues closed, Wed 9am - 6pm described the Howgills - the distinctive historic Settle-Carlisle railway line. (closed November - May), Thurs - Sun 9am - 6pm rounded hills overlooking Sedbergh - as 32 Main Street, Sedbergh LA10 5BL The cobbled streets of Dent village are looking like a ‘herd of sleeping elephants’. Tel. 015396 20552 home to the award-winning George & [email protected] Nestled beneath them, the market town has a variety of quirky and interesting WOOFS OF SEDBERGH shops. It is famous as a book town, with 16, 19, 24 and 33 seater vehicles plenty of second-hand bookshops. There is SEDBERGH also an array of characterful tea rooms, A lifestyle store A reliable Service award wining cafés, great takeaways, for all traditional pub grub and innovative MAD HATTERS occasions restaurants - the choice is yours. Tea Room Telephone: 015396 20414 Just outside the town is the restored www.no6finklestreet.co.uk 015396 20298 Email: [email protected] Victorian wool mill, Farfield Mill Arts & Heritage Centre, where you can watch artists and craftspeople at work in their The George & Self Catering Bed & Breakfast studios and enjoy the galleries, shop and tearoom. Dragon Hotel High quality accommodation providing comfort and The dramatic waterfall of Cautley Spout is Main Street, Dent, Cumbria LA10 5QL warmth whatever the time of year. Great area for walking or rides out in peaceful countryside. reached from the Cross Keys, a 400-year- • 3 Star Enjoy the surrounding natural beauty of fell and field and old temperance inn, now owned by the Accommodation magnificent views of The Howgill Hills on a traditional working hill farm. National Trust. • The Dent Brewery Tap The history of the Quaker movement is embedded in the area. You can visit Fox’s • Walkers and families Pulpit, the hillside spot where George Fox welcome preached in 1652 - thought of as the start of the society - and the peaceful meeting • Dog friendly house at Brigflatts, which is open to all. • 10 en-suite rooms The limestone valley of Dentdale offers Contact: Mrs Dorothy Hutchinson Tel: 01539 620094 real tranquility. High on the valley side is Telephone: 015396 25256 Hebblethwaite Hall Farm, Cautley, Sedbergh, Cumbria, LA10 5LX Dent Station, the highest mainline station Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] www.thegeorgeanddragondent.co.uk www.hebblethwaitehallfarm.co.uk
50 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk Farmers markets 2019 Visit for some of the best quality, locally-sourced produce. Brough (Village Hall) 3rd Sat of the month Grassington (The Square) 4th Sun of the month - Art Exhibitions Masham (Market Place) - Artists' Studios 1st Sun of the month (Apr-Sep) - Heritage Displays Orton (Market Hall) 2nd Sat of the month - Demonstrations Richmond (Market Place) - Workshops 3rd Sat of the month - Craft Gallery Sedbergh (Main Street) ART CRAFT HERITAGE 4th Sat of the month (Apr-Aug) - Tea Room and 14 Sep & 14 Dec Farfield Mill ● Garsdale Road ● Sedbergh ● LA10 5LW Skipton (Canal Basin) 1st and 3rd Sun of the month www.farfieldmill.org ● 015396 21958
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England’s Book Town Explore the Yorkshire Dales and the Lakes Enjoy a wonderful stay in Sedbergh’s former Railway Station. Westby House is set in a private, peaceful location, within 3 acres of south-west facing Tourist Information Centre beautiful gardens which offer panoramic views of the Lune Valley and the Howgill Fells. Multi-fuel 015396 20125 burner, free Wi-Fi and parking included. House sleeps up to 6 and the cottage 4. They can be booked together and opened up as one if required. www.sedbergh.org.uk Email: [email protected] Mobile: 07881 235353 www.oldstationcottage.com
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Yorkshire Dales National Park is home to some very rare - and not so rare, but equally On the verge fascinating - animals, plants and insects. Roadside verges - that patch of land Here we look at some of our wonderful between a road and ditch or field wildlife and habitats, and the best places boundary - provide a wonderful home Water avens (Judy Dunford) to spot both. for wildflowers and wildlife. These ‘arteries’ to the countryside are often overlooked, but are an important source of nectar for pollinating insects. Wading in They connect habitats, and provide cover and forage for birds, mammals and The distinctive curlew is easy to identify by its large size amphibians, while allowing their and its long, downward-curving bill, which it uses to probe movement through the wider landscape. into the ground for food such as worms and insects. Road verges - such as those in Orton, Europe’s biggest wading birds arrive at their upland many of which are several metres wide - breeding grounds in early spring. They may gather are often more diverse and special than in flocks of several hundred in the lower dales, the land around them as they are not making a dramatic sight. subject to the same intensive management. The curlew’s haunting, bubbling From spring to late summer, our verges ‘curl-oo’ call gives it its name display a brilliant array of colour, from and can be heard as the bright yellow cat’s-ears to the spectacular birds perform their blue of meadow cranesbill. territorial displays.
How many have you seen? Curlew Bumblebee Road verge wildflowers Peregrine falcon Common blue butterfly Blue is the colour Carnivorous plants
The common blue butterfly has a fascinating life-cycle. When the eggs hatch between June and September the emerging caterpillars feed upon grassland herbs from the pea family, such as medicks, trefoils and clovers. The caterpillar becomes a ‘chrysalis’ - the stage when its body breaks down and transforms into the winged adult. The chrysalis exudes chemicals that attract and encourage ants to protect the developing butterfly from other invertebrate predators. Sometimes the ants bury the chrysalis underground so that the butterfly has to climb to the surface.
52 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk Reaching What’s the buzz? Surprisingly, bumblebees, those key new heights pollinators of our hay meadows, road verges and heather moorlands, can be Visitors flocking to Malham Cove this seen more year-round than you might summer could catch a glimpse of the expect. world’s fastest animal. The National Park Authority is working The Cove is one of the most with Buglife and charity Yorkshire Dales successful peregrine falcon nest sites Millennium Trust on promoting ‘B-lines’ - in the National Park, with at least 61 flower-rich corridors that help pollinators young raised since a pair first nested move more easily through the landscape here in 1993. to do their work. RSPB and National Park Authority staff and volunteers will once again run a special free viewpoint at the foot of the rock face. Visitors will be able to watch the birds through high- For the latest Malham peregrine news, powered telescopes - and maybe including our video blogs, visit catch them in a high speed aerial www.yorkshiredales/peregrines and stoop for prey. follow @malhamperegrine on Twitter.
butterwort both have sticky leaves that Caught out ensnare ants, beetles and spiders that The plants that thrive on our peat moors wander over the peat surface. are adapted to nutrient-poor soils. Lurking just below the surface of some Some have special features that trap and of our tarns and bog pools, then digest insect prey so they can bladderworts have stems bearing bag- supplement their nutrient supply. like structures that envelop incautious The round-leaved sundew and water fleas that swim too close. Special to the Dales Yorkshire feather moss - is endemic to one gorge in the Yorkshire Dales National Park and found nowhere else. English sandwort - the entire UK population of this tiny flower are found on and around Ingleborough. Lady’s slipper orchid - the only naturally surviving population of this species is found in the Dales. Black grouse - are found no further south in England than the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Limestone pavement - half of the total area of limestone pavement in the country is found in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Find out more about the wildlife and habitats of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, and the best place to see them, on our website Sundew (Judy Dunford) www.natureinthedales.org.uk
Visit the Dales Countryside Museum online at www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk | 53 purpose-built site and sample their products. pubs and the delightful Humble Pie, a deli Wensleydale serving homemade Yorkshire delights. If you fancy some exercise after all your tasting, visit Stage 1 Cycles - based at the At medieval Bolton Castle you can wander The busy market town of Hawes is home Museum - for bike hire and advice on the through the rooms and admire the views to the Dales Countryside Museum - which best places to go. Or jump on the Little from the battlements. Learn about tells the fascinating story of the people White Bus to Snaizeholme Red Squirrel falconry, have a go at archery or tour the and landscape of the Dales and celebrates Trail and see these loveable creatures gardens. The vintage Wensleydale Railway its 40th birthday in 2019 - as well as the making a comeback in their natural starts at nearby Redmire and has world famous Wensleydale Cheese. habitat. passenger services to Leeming Bar, offering a great day out in some beautiful Try Wallace and Gromit’s much-loved Nearby Hardraw Force is the highest countryside. nibble in all its varieties at the Wensleydale single-drop waterfall in England, and there Creamery - and be sure to visit in are many other spectacular waterfalls in Located in a beautiful, wooded setting by September for the third great Yorkshire the valley: Cauldron Force at West Burton the River Ure, privately-owned Jervaulx Dales Cheese Festival. made famous by the artist J M W Turner, Abbey is open to the general public and Mill Gill in Askrigg, and the dramatic has an ‘honesty box’ to help towards its Call in at Raydale Preserves, a family run Aysgarth Falls. upkeep. The Aysgarth Edwardian Rock business established in 1978, to view the Garden, commissioned by local landowner production of local preserves at their new Askrigg offers a wonderful selection of Frank Sayer-Graham (1859-1946), has such a fascinating story that it is now Grade II listed. WENSLEYDALE The largest natural lake in the Dales, Semerwater, is much enjoyed by anglers, TREKKING MASHAM SHEEP FAIR canoeists and sailors. And for the big kid • Catering for all abilities 5th & 6th October 2019 in everyone, head to the mysterious The • Trekking from one hour to a full day Forbidden Corner to solve riddles and • Riding lessons Sheep Show with sheep and old time fair • Children’s Pony Experiences and Pony Days events around the town including market explore hidden passages. • Riding Holidays with/without your own Horse and brewery trips. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. • Cottages available Further info: email [email protected] In the lower dale, Middleham has a superb castle owned by Historic England, Masham Old Station Caravan Park has two famous breweries to visit - Black Sheep and Theakstons, and Leyburn’s MASHAM highlights include The Garden Rooms at Within walking distance of Masham and handy for the Yorkshire Dales. Tennants, an arts venue and eatery. Lots of visitor attractions nearby. • Open March to November • Shop on site • Bus stop nearby Find out more at wensleydale.org, i Tel: 01969 650 367 • Small, friendly, family-run site www.welcometoleyburn.co.uk and Mobile: 07919 184 850 Tel: 01765 689569 www.visitmasham.com www.wensleydaleequestrian.com www.oldstation-masham.co.uk
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12 en-suite rooms and B&B COLLING WELL COTTAGE Dinner + B&B - please Near Leyburn (sleeps 4) contact for prices Lovely single-storey cottage, located in pretty village A superb location for with shop, pub/restaurant and surrounded by walking holidays beautiful countryside. Comfortable and well equipped with two en suite bedrooms and private parking. Set in owner’s large delightful garden. The White Rose, Askrigg, Prices: from £360 to £550 North Yorkshire DL8 3HG Contact: Maria on 01677 450742 Tel: 01969 650515 Email: [email protected] [email protected] Website: www.collingwell.co.uk www.thewhiterosehotelaskrigg.co.uk Colling Well Cottage, Hunton, North Yorkshire DL8 1QG
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