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Long before it became a National Park, visitors sought out the Dales for its breathtaking scenery. Eighteenth century What makes it special? writers and artists were drawn to its The Yorkshire Dales landscape has many hay meadows, and show how the area dramatic landscapes, and by 1781 intrepid moods; it can be wild and windswept or has been shaped over thousands of tourists were being charged one shilling to quietly tranquil. years by the people who have lived and worked here. tour Weathercote Cave in Chapel-le-Dale It includes some of the finest with a guide. scenery in the UK, from crags and Spectacular waterfalls and ancient With over 2,500km of rights of way there pavements to an underground labyrinth broadleaved woodland contrast with the are abundant ways to enjoy the National of caves. scattered remains of former mine workings and other rural industries Park, from a wander along ancient droving Each or ‘dale’ has its own distinct which remind us of the area’s rich routes to exploring bridleways on foot, character, set against expansive heather industrial heritage. bike or horseback. We’ve suggested a moorland tops. wonderful Woods & Waterfalls Together, nature and people have Stone-built villages sit amongst mindfulness walk on pages 16-17. created a special landscape of immense traditional farming landscapes of field beauty and character. The area is a paradise for those seeking barns, drystone walls and flower-rich adventure, with some of the best climbing and caving opportunities in the country. Soak up the atmosphere in Dales villages Forty years on from its first edition, we and towns or follow in the footsteps of hope that The Visitor 2021 continues to Did you know..? show just why we think the Yorkshire film makers, writers and artists round some Yorkshire Dales National Park was Dales is so special. With fascinating awe-inspiring natural sites. Or you can just designated in 1954 in recognition of features on the National Park’s landscape sit back, relax and breathe in the view. its extraordinary natural beauty, the and wildlife, all the information you need You can be assured of a warm welcome diversity of its wildlife habitats, its rich to plan the perfect trip, and a map on the from the many brilliant businesses that cultural heritage and its fantastic centre pages to help you find your way make this such a fantastic destination. Join opportunities for outdoor recreation. around, you can explore the Dales your us in raising a glass to the Dales’ incredible way at your pace. Covering 2,179 square kilometres food and drink, and to the people who (841 square miles), the National Park make it and showcase it. is not a wilderness area, but a living, working environment, home to 24,000 people. It’s one of a family of 15 National Parks in the UK, protected for future generations to enjoy. It’s the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority’s job to care for this very special place, its landscape and its communities, and to help people understand and share in it.

We put this guide together at the start of Our website provides all the 2021 with the knowledge that essential information you need for a roadmap out of restrictions a visit to Yorkshire Dales National was being prepared - but just Park. From where to begin as a first be aware that things might time visitor to ideas for really getting change throughout the year. off the beaten track, discover it all at Please refer to the latest www.yorkshiredales.org.uk national guidelines when you visit. The hardy sheep is the emblem of the Yorkshire Dales National Park (danscape.co.uk)

Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 3 Sedbergh, & The Howgills

Nestled beneath the - the craftspeople at work in their studios, as The cobbled streets of village are distinctive rounded hills described by well as enjoy the changing exhibitions, home to the award-winning George & writer and walker Alfred Wainwright as shop and tearoom. Dragon pub and Dent Brewery (one of the looking like ‘a herd of sleeping elephants’ remotest breweries in ), and a The dramatic waterfall of Cautley Spout is - is the market town of Sedbergh. memorial fountain to its most famous son, reached from the Cross Keys, a 400-year- Adam Sedgwick, considered the founding As befits its status as England’s Book old temperance inn, now owned by the father of modern geology. The Sedgwick Town, Sedbergh has many second hand . Trail near Sedbergh, was created in 1985 to book shops. It boasts a huge variety of The area is central to the history of the mark the bi-centenary of the geologist’s birth. eateries from quirky tea rooms to award- Quaker movement. Climb up to Fox’s winning dining experiences, including Dent Station is the highest mainline station Pulpit, the hillside spot where George Fox former 17th century coaching inn, The in England at 1,100 feet and a stop on the preached in 1652 and thought of as the Black Bull. historic Settle-Carlisle railway line. A start of the society, before visiting the volunteer-run bus service connects the Restored Victorian wool mill, Farfield Mill peaceful meeting house at Brigflatts, trains on scheduled days each week taking Arts & Heritage Centre, sits a mile outside which offers a welcome to all. visitors to the village. Sedbergh. Here you can watch artists and At the Dent Heritage Centre you can find out about the mining of the black marble synonymous with the dale, as well as the story of the ‘terrible knitters of Dent’.

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4 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk CONTENTS Welcome page 3 Your visit starts here pages 6-7 Getting here & around page 9 Run the Dales pages 10-11 Dog in the Park page 14 Woods & Waterfalls Walk pages 16-17 All Creatures Great and Small page 20 Stars in our Eyes pages 22-24 What’s On in 2021 pages 25-42

The cobbled streets of Dent National Park map page 34 A Dales for all seasons pages 44-46 What’s in a word page 47 Experience the Dales page 49 Art Exhibitions Cave rescue page 55 Artists' Studios Heritage Get out there! pages 56-57 Workshops Going underground page 58 Dales Countryside Craft Gallery Museum pages 64-65 Tea Room Win a weekend break page 66 Free Entry

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Cover image: Three Peaks landscape (Stephen Garnett)

Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 5 YOUR VISIT STARTS HERE

There’s no better place to begin your visit than our National Park Visitor Centres. Don’t miss… Our ‘meet and greet’ volunteers will be Visiting the old lead mining on hand alongside our knowledgeable remains at Yarnbury and seeing staff with all the essential information if you can recognise part of the at their fingertips to steer you in the landscape from the Harry Potter right direction and the local know- films Hebden Road, Grassington BD23 5LB how on what to see and do. Calling in at Linton’s waterside (grid ref. SE003637) medieval church near stepping As well as displays and leaflets, the 01756 751690 stones over the visitor centres offer maps, books, [email protected] official and exclusive National Park Strolling by the river to the merchandise - including clothing and WC beautiful ancient woodland of Three Peaks products - and a range of P Grass Woods - pick up a guided mini gifts for smaller pockets. The walk in the visitor centre. centres at and Aysgarth Falls i  feature great cafés, too. Each is in a fantastic setting, so you’ll With a lovely meadow nearby to find loads to do close by to really picnic in, the centre also offers make a day of it. lockable bike stores and racks, plus a tap for washing muddy boots. When you visit our visitor hub sites in 2021 look out for our pop-up ‘Go Hawes Wild!’ events. We’d love to help you Dales Countryside Museum, Hawes learn a little more about the National DL8 3NT (grid ref. SD875899) Park and how to look after it. 01969 666210 Don’t miss… [email protected] Opening Times Jumping on board the Little White Bus to the Snaizeholme red P WC  Open daily from 10am. squirrel trail to see these native creatures in their favourite habitat 1 November to 31 March, Saturday i    and Sunday only (closed January) Tasting Wallace and Gromit’s beloved cheese at the famous Opening times can vary, with The former Victorian railway building Creamery additional hours during school houses the visitor centre, Dales holidays and for special events. Calling in on the livestock sales at Countryside Museum, Stage 1 Please ring ahead to confirm or visit the 100-year-old Hawes auction Cycles bike hire, and Firebox Café, www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/ mart for a real slice of farming life. so there is plenty to pack into a day nationalparkcentres when you call in.

6 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk Don’t miss… Climbing the 400 stone steps to Aysgarth see the lunar landscape of Malham BD23 4DA at the top of (grid ref. SD900627) awe-inspiring Falls 01729 833200 Aysgarth, DL8 3TH [email protected] Admiring the dramatic (grid ref. SE012888) surroundings at Gordale Scar, a 01969 662910 hidden gorge that has wowed P WC [email protected] visitors, writers and artists for hundreds of years i   P WC Being enchanted by Janet’s Foss, a gladed woodland waterfall said Find out about the area’s amazing to be the home of the queen of i   limestone geology, and the the fairies. peregrine falcons that have nested Find out how Aysgarth’s stunning and raised chicks at Malham Cove three-stepped waterfalls were created for the last 20 years. before seeing them for yourself - followed by a delicious treat on the (Hudson House) Coppice Café’s outdoor terrace. Reeth DL11 6SZ (grid ref: SE038992) Don’t miss… 01748 884059 Don’t miss… Meandering through wildflower [email protected] Discovering one of the most meadows in full bloom and taking unusual listed buildings in the in the classic Swaledale barns and National Park - the Aysgarth walls landscape P WC i Edwardian Rock Garden, built in Cycling the 20km Swale Trail, the 1906 by a landowner with a The former bank is now a partnership newest route for aspiring young colourful background centre offering a range of useful mountain bikers and families who services to visitors and the local Exploring Bolton Castle, a want to ride together community alike. stunning late medieval castle with Discovering the area’s industrial daily falconry and archery displays past through the scattered Visiting popular and easily remains of former mine workings. accessible Cauldron Force in the And don’t forget to call in at our pretty village of West Burton. other partnership centres - Kirkby Stephen, Kirkby Lonsdale and Remember that every time you Sedbergh Tourist Information Centres make a purchase from one of our - with their dedicated Yorkshire Dales National Park Visitor Centres or National Park displays. Hawes former railway station is home to the National Park Visitor Centre and the Dales Countryside our online shop at Museum, which has displays in static train carriages. www.yorkshiredales.org/shop you make a valuable contribution to the conservation of the National Park. Treat yourself - treat the National Park! 

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Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 7 Malhamdale

With some of the best known natural wonders in the National Park, it’s not hard to see why Malhamdale has inspired artists, filmmakers and poets over the centuries. A short walk along good paths from Malham village - with its busy National Park Visitor Centre, pubs and cafés - is the soaring limestone ‘amphitheatre’ of Malham Cove. In 2015 a waterfall was seen flowing from the top for the first time in living memory following particularly heavy rain. Visitors at Malham Cove, a towering limestone cliff The top is reached by 400 stone steps Above the Cove lies the highest natural climbing up the Cove’s left hand side - lake in England. Tranquil - waterfall emerges through a hole in the count them! A stunning lunar alongside the ‘sooty’ marks on the rock at its deepest point. Walking through landscape of limestone Cove face - is said to have woodland pungent with wild garlic in pavement awaits made inspired Charles Kingsley summer, you also pass Janet’s Foss, a up of clints (blocks) For the last two decades, who wrote The Water gladed woodland waterfall and pool. and grikes (fissures). peregrine falcons - the world’s Babies while staying Janet, the Queen of the Faeries, is said to For the makers fastest animal - have chosen to nest nearby. Take the live in the cave behind the falls. of Harry Potter boardwalk and raise their young at the Cove. Back in the village, blacksmith Annabelle & the Deathly through the Look out for them when you visit; their Bradley designs and makes beautiful Hallows: Part 2 nature reserve antics as they stoop for their prey at wrought ironwork in the old smithy and it was the and you may just high speeds are a sight to behold. You offers courses for those wanting to learn a perfect choice as spot one of the might also catch a glimpse of the other new skill. Further down the valley you can a location shoot. rare water voles wildlife - like little owls and that were released learn about the art of butchery and woodpeckers - that also here as part of a charcuterie with Chris Wildman at Town call the Cove home. reintroduction End Farm Shop - the home of Yorkshire programme in 2017. Chorizo - and stock up on some great local produce. The dramatic gorge of Gordale Scar - part of the Malham Visit www.malhamdale.com for i Landscape Trail that takes in all the key further information. sites - is hemmed in by high cliffs. A

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8 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk Getting here and around To plan your trip - including access advice for those who are less mobile, your dog in the With its central UK location, Yorkshire can relax and enjoy the scenery - and see countryside, and where to find Dales National Park is very accessible by over the top of drystone walls! WiFi hotspots - visit our website at road. The M6 skirts it to the west, the By leaving your car behind for just a few www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/ A66 is to the north, the A1 to the east days during your holiday you will be plan-your-visit and the A65 and A59 south (see map making a valuable contribution to the on centre pages). Dales’ future wellbeing. But car travel can have an impact on this special environment - so why not give All aboard your car a holiday, too? Don’t just come Taking the bus is an There’s no better way to travel to or for the day, come excellent way of around the National Park than by train or enjoying the views bus. Taking public transport means you for the stay! without having to worry about keeping your eyes on the road. It There is a fabulous range helps reduce congestion and parking of accommodation problems, as well as opening up the Make tracks available in the Yorkshire possibility of some fantastic linear Dales to suit every taste and pocket, walks back to your car. With the East Coast from B&Bs to bunk barns and youth For a relaxed ride and truly local Mainline to the east, the hostels to yurts. -Lancaster Line to the experience jump on one of the services south, and the Leeds-Settle-Carlisle We can’t begin to list them all here, that provide links between the main Line to the west, the train is a great but please browse our advertisers in towns and villages and surrounding way of getting here. this edition, as well as visiting our area. These are usually supplemented website at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/ by extra services during the summer, And whatever you do, don’t miss a where-to-stay mainly Sundays and Bank Holidays. Look trip on the historic Settle-Carlisle out for community-run services like railway. This gives fantastic access to the Little White Bus in Swaledale and the heart of the National Park on one Wensleydale www.littlewhitebus.co.uk. of the most spectacular train journeys See also www.dalesbus.org or contact in England as it rumbles over Traveline on 0871 200 22 33 or and through Blea www.traveline.info for more Moor Tunnel. Stops include Horton- information. in- (perfect for the Yorkshire Three Peaks), Dent (the highest mainline station in England), and (to connect to Hawes). Timetables for the daily service can be found at www.settle-carlisle.co.uk and, for special steam services, visit www.uksteam.info The trains to and and on the Settle-Carlisle line all carry bikes. No booking is required, but space can be limited. Our dedicated cycling website www.cyclethedales.org.uk can tell you more, including the great trails you can enjoy when you get here. Don’t leave here without a ride on the vintage Wensleydale Railway or Embsay & Steam Railway, or a visit to Kirkby Stephen East station - all lovingly restored and run by rail enthusiasts. Enjoying the ride at Kirkby Stephen East station

Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 9 Run the Dales! About the Author Victoria Benn lives and works Outdoor sports are warming up for a 2021 in the Yorkshire Dales. An comeback and this includes one of the early immersion into the world Dales most beloved and traditional - fell of fell running through her running. father, the well-known athlete, coach and Great news, not only for those who’ve commentator Roger Ingham had to enlist Strava and the like as racing MBE, engendered Victoria’s buddies for the past year, but also for the passion to uncover the sports’ villages and hamlets whose unconquerable stories, history, pioneers and community spirit founded the time- characters. As well as creating honoured races generations ago. the Run the Dales website, It may seem that walking up a hill is hard Victoria has written Peak enough without trying to do it as quickly Performance, uncovering the as possible! But there is a tremendous thrill sporting history of the to be gained from travelling fast and light Yorkshire Dales Three Peaks on the fells. Running outside is not only and Studs & Crooks, The free, but an exhilarating mood enhancer Hidden History of too. The only real equipment needed is a Show. Victoria’s books can be decent pair of running shoes. purchased through National Park Visitor Centres and I’ve always thought that fell running www.runthedales.co.uk. seemed like the unsung hero of Dales’ life and culture. Unlike many other sports, its Champion runner Victoria Wilkinson reaches the flag at Hebden Sports fell race (Stephen Garnett) hallmark is that it is and always has been technically accessible to everyone, Fell racing is not only great for the health with an optional hill climb for those who irrespective of age, income or cultural and wellbeing of the participants, but is like to get closer to the action. background - but because it’s not on TV also a thrilling and energising spectator Races such as the iconic Classic, or part of the school curriculum, it seems sport too, with fresh air guaranteed along to slip under the radar. Kilnsey Crag Race and the Great fell race at Reeth Show are truly impressive, showcasing the whole race from start to finish, making for a euphoric adrenalin rush for those competing and an electrifying spectacle for those watching. A traditional sport throughout the Yorkshire Dales, , Cheviot Hills and Scotland, the first fell race in the history books allegedly took place in 1040, and is credited as the precursor to the renowned Braemar highland games.

“Whoever comes in first gets an ovation like an Olympic champion coming up the home straight - and if it’s an exciting battle to the wire then the commentator will be going up another crescendo with it! Roger Ingham MBE, former athlete and commentator at Kilnsey Show.

Michael Hawkins coming off the top of Kilnsey Crag in 1982 en route to victory and the race record he still holds today

10 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk “I love the simplicity of fell running and I love the honesty of it too; there’s no referee’s decision - you just have to accept that the person in front is faster…” Ted Mason, five times British Open Fell Runners Association champion

The Dales own Burnsall Classic, traditionally held on the first Saturday after the first Sunday after the ‘Glorious Twelfth’ of August, holds the distinction of being one of the oldest fell races in England, dating back to between 1850 and 1865. The event’s 1910 ‘special race’ won in a record breaking 12 minutes, 59.8 seconds by legendary runner Ernest Dalzell, further secured the Classic’s iconic status. It would be another 67 years before a future Lakeland running legend, Fred Reeves broke Dalzell’s record for the 386m high Burnsall Fell, in 12 minutes, 47 seconds in 1977 - a time which remains unbroken to this day. The new Run the Dales website has stories and insights from Ted Mason leads the way at Show fell race (Stephen Garnett) some of fell and mountain running’s biggest names. Double ‘Bob Graham Round’ record holder, Nicky Spinks, shares the memories of her record breaking win in Yorkshire’s original ultra, The Marking the launch of Run the Dales is a brand new Fellsman in 2010. Three times British fell running champion, Robb exhibition by award-winning photographer Stephen Garnett. Jebb shares his thoughts about the importance of running clubs, and former champion runners Kirsty Hall and Ben Mounsey Opening at the Grade 1-listed Folly Museum in Settle on 18 demonstrate, via specially-commissioned videos, the art of May and moving to the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes ascending and descending the fells. on 23 July, the exhibition will also incorporate a retrospective of fell running through the ages in pictures and objects The website brings to life the region’s most iconic races - the donated by former champions of the sport. Burnsall Classic, Kilnsey Crag Race, Malham Show fell race and the 24 mile long Three Peaks Race - and includes colourful For details visit www.runthedales.org.uk anecdotes and insights from some of the sport’s most famous alumni, including Bill Teasdale MBE and Reg The new mobile-friendly website Harrison, who between www.runthedales.co.uk - made them racked up 12 Kilnsey possible through Yorkshire Dales Crag Race victories. National Park Authority’s Sustainable Development Fund - mixes stunning ’s Michael photography with clearly signposted Hawkins shares the story information about how to get behind his unbroken Kilnsey involved in the sport. Crag Race record win: From how to “The Kilnsey Crag Race is get started to iconic because of the finding races, crowds. There’s not many training races where the crowd are information and on top of you like that. Back progression in the 1970s and 1980s routes, it also there were crowds of 18 - tells the story of 20 thousand - so it was fell running’s really inspirational! illustrious heritage, “I ended up running for through some of England and Great Britain 27 its pioneers, times and it all started with champions and Kilnsey Crag Race - it did greatest characters. seriously…” Dave Hodgson winning the Burnsall Classic in 1958

Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 11 Skipton & Bolton Abbey

The 130-mile long Leeds-Liverpool Canal, one of the early achievements of the Industrial Revolution, runs through the heart of Skipton. It celebrated its 200th anniversary in 2016 and now offers narrowboat day trips, canalside walks and bike rides. Originally a trading centre for sheep and wool - its name Sceap Tun meant ‘sheep town’ - Skipton grew up around its magnificent 900-year-old castle and market place. These days visitors can enjoy re-enactments and other historic events in the castle grounds, and still visit the town’s regular The twelfth century priory at Bolton Abbey (Stephen Garnett) artisan markets held in the canal basin. The 20 acres of parkland at Aireville Park contain skateboard and pump tracks, and the new Raven Tree Top Adventure, a high ropes adventure course. Swimming Pool & Fitness Centre, This delightful cafe offers award- also in the park, has two swimming pools, winning chocolate brownies, a fitness centre, café, sauna and steam room. milkshakes, ice-cream and hot drinks, alongside savoury specials.

The livestock auction mart, on the edge of Open seven days a week: the town, transforms into an unusual arts Monday to Thursday: 10am-4pm Friday to Sunday: 9am-5pm venue for annual events such as Art in the Pen and Yarndale, as well as hosting plays, Delightful accommodation is also available at Howgill Barn, just comedians and bands. minutes from the Brownie Barn.

The perfect gateway to the National Park, Brownie Barn, Howgill Lane, Skipton boasts many pubs, cafés, shops, Barden BD23 6DJ and hotels - plus a cinema - and is easily www.lovebrownies.co.uk accessed by train from Leeds and . Please call 01943 262726 for details Not far away, the Bolton Abbey estate, owned for centuries by the Dukes of Devonshire, lies on the banks of the River Wharfe. You can explore the romantic ruins of the twelfth century priory, and enjoy woodland nature trails and riverside walks - suitable for wheelchair users - before indulging in a tasty treat at the Cavendish Pavilion. Hesketh Farm Park is a great family day out with animals and fun tractor rides, a unique hands-on experience of farm life. For steam buffs there is Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway. Now restored and run by enthusiasts, the track winds its way back and forth between the village and the abbey.

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Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 15 Aysgarth Woods & Waterfalls Walk

This wonderful trail gives you time and space to contemplate and connect as you Distance: 2.5km (1.5 miles) Getting there: Car parking and cycle stands at Aysgarth Falls National Park drink in Aysgarth’s famous cascades and Time: a minimum of 45 minutes magical Freeholders’ Wood. Visitor Centre (DL8 3TH. SE 01177 Accessibility: the woodland section can 88782). Bus 156 to Aysgarth village. be muddy in places and can have slippery 1 Leave the National Park Visitor Centre Toilets: Visitor Centre tree roots. Limestone around the car park in the direction of the Lower waterfall viewpoints can also be slippery Refreshments: Coppice Café at and Middle Falls (signposted). Cross when wet. There are a number of Visitor Centre the road with care, and take the narrow gates and steps along this route. obvious well-made path. After a short distance, steps lead down to the Middle Falls viewing point. 3 Go through two field gates and on to footpath to the right signed Continuing on along the path, pass the tarmac/aggregate track through Aysgarth, and follow the path as it through a gate. On your right you will the farm. Pass through another gate twists through the wood. Birds such see the return path from the Lower and then take the footpath on the as treecreepers, chiffchaffs and Falls. (You can visit this waterfall on a right. Do not walk up the private farm warblers may be spotted, along with circular path which has many steps.) access track. Walk alongside the fence roe deer. Dormice were successfully to a fingerpost and turn left - signed reintroduced into the wood in 2008 2 Take the grassy path to the left - Freeholders’ Wood. From here distant after an absence of nearly a century. signed Castle Bolton - and follow this views of Castle Bolton can be enjoyed. Do not disturb any wildlife by opening between the two fences, through a Built in 1399, this is one of the country’s the nesting boxes in the wood. gate, to reach another gate and sign to best preserved medieval castles. Redmire and Castle Bolton. Go straight Go through a narrow gate and ahead on a grass track, aiming just to 4 Continue over the field to a gate. Turn continue through woodland to come the right of some farm buildings. right on to the track, and then out close to the road. Cross back over immediately left on a footpath signed the road to return to the National Aysgarth. Go straight across the next Park Visitor Centre and Coppice Café. field to meet a track. Turn left and go under an old railway bridge. 5 Just beyond the bridge take the

16 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk As you wander through Freeholders’ Wood, through the hazel coppice rich in wildlife, past the waterfalls tumbling over smooth limestone, enjoy the calm of the great outdoors and use your senses to connect with nature. Every season has its beauty. Use our guide to love, learn about and explore our precious woodland at every time of year. These are our favourite things in Freeholders’ Wood:

Spring • Song birds fill the early morning air with sound and movement • See hazel catkins shake gently in the breeze • Take a breath to enjoy pungent wild garlic • Use the texture of bark to identify trees • Watch the soft green leaves unfurl

Summer • Bluebells fill the Autumn woods with colour and rich scent • Autumn leaves are Winter rich yellows and • Hear the buzz of vibrant reds • Dormice sleep insects on the in nests of leaves woodland edge • Catch a glimpse of deer running through • Catch the hooting of • Look for blue the trees tawny owls at dusk scabious and • Be touched by the • Hear the buzz of hover- purple betony flies on ivy flowers in the crisp autumn air meadows • Feel the crunch of • Glimpse the glint of stars fallen leaves underfoot shining through the • Feel cool in the empty branches shade of the deep • Find hazelnuts nibbled hazel woods by passing dormice • Feel your boots crunch through the snow and ice

Remember - for nature, your mindfulness Freeholders’ Wood we have a small is important too. population of hazel dormice and they Our website offers many more need to be able to find food, to raise short walks to download - Just as we enjoy the woodland when we their families undisturbed, and to find including circular routes that visit, in return the animals and plants that somewhere safe to hibernate over winter. start from our car parks and live here need us to respect their needs linear walks that link in with public and to give them the space to live You can help them survive by making transport - as well as trails to get undisturbed, happy lives. sure you and your dogs keep to you off the beaten track. Browse footpaths, take your rubbish home, and All our lovely wildlife needs to be safe www.yorkshireadales.org.uk/ share your love of the National Parks and free to find food and shelter. In short-walks for ideas. with friends and family.

Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 17 Settle, Ingleton & the Three Peaks

The market town of Settle - home to the world’s oldest music hall and an eclectic mix of cafés and outdoor suppliers - is synonymous with the famous Settle- Twistleton Scar (Stephen Garnett) Carlisle Railway. scenery. Cave, reached from Clapham with its pubs and tearooms, is there are some top rides to tackle, This historic line winds its way across the linked to the famous pothole of Gaping including the 10 mile Settle Loop which western Dales, crossing a series of stunning Gill. Britain’s longest show cave - White forms part of the . viaducts - including Ribblehead (completed Scar - sits at the foot of Ingleborough on in 1874) - and passing through the one- the road between Ingleton and Hawes. and-a-half mile long Blea Moor tunnel. Visit www.thisisingleton.co.uk i Both incredible feats of Victorian engineering. The waterfalls of Stainforth Force and and www.visitsettle.co.uk for more Catrigg Force make great walks and information. Not far from Settle along the A65 is The Attermire Scar is a good climb. For cyclists, Courtyard with its artisan shops and café- brassiere, and a few miles on you’ll find The Courtyard Dairy with its cheese shop, café and cheese museum. Yorkshire’s stunning Three Peaks - , Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent - dominate the landscape. A popular challenge is to complete all three - that’s 24 miles - in under 12 hours. SETTLE An imposing, 11-arched viaduct overlooks the village of Ingleton. The lovely Ingleton • Peaceful secluded park Waterfalls Walk starts here. Ingleton also • Touring caravans and motorhomes boasts the multi-award winning Seasons • Luxury holiday homes for sale Bakery with its famous sourdough, and • Holiday apartment to hire the chance to bake your own at the www..com Seasons Artisan School. Tel: 01729 822387 This area is known for its extensive Beautiful surroundings, ideal for network of caves and fine limestone walkers and countryside lovers.

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Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 19 All Creatures Great & Small

Thirty years after BBC1 aired its final episode of the hugely popular Yorkshire Dales-based veterinary series All Creatures Great and Small, a whole new series - with funding from Screen Yorkshire - arrived on our screens in 2020. It was an immediate hit with 3.3 million of us tuning in and became the highest rated show for Channel 5 in over 5 years. All Creatures Great and Small first appeared on TV in 1978, and was based on the best-selling books by James Alfred Wight, a veterinary surgeon based in

Filming scenes in Grassington village square in 2019

Thirsk, where he practised for almost 50 Peter Davidson as Tristan Farnon, with the years. Eight books set in the Yorkshire legendary Robert Hardy as Siegfried Dales from the 1930s to the 1950s were Farnon and Lynda Bellingham as Helen published, selling around 60 million copies. Herriot for the final four series. The other star of the show - of course - was the The stories were loosely based on real Yorkshire Dales National Park. events and people in the fictional town of Darrowby, which Alf Wight described as a Viewers fell in love with the stunning Dales’ composite of his own imagination with a landscape. 20 million tuned in every week bit of , Richmond, Leyburn and with Robert Hardy commenting that: “It thrown in for good measure. hit the right moment. There was a feeling still in the towns that the country was a You can visit the real Skeldale House when glorious place inhabited by amazing people.” you call in at The World of visitor attraction in Thirsk (see page 59). The original series was mostly filmed in in Upper Wensleydale, where you The original series ran throughout the 80s can still visit The Kings Arms which and made household names of became the Drovers Arms in the show, just Christopher Timothy as James Herriot and

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20 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk over the road from the building which Enjoy a delicious home A spacious apartment in cooked meal followed by Elaine's Tea PENDLE VIEW a picturesque village with became Skeldale House, the veterinary a choice of scrumptious A HOLIDAY APARTMENT its own parking and patio. surgery, and which is now a B&B bearing Rooms Hidden homemade puddings or cakes Feizor, LA2 8DF Sleeps 2/3. From £280 to Gem in a beautiful countryside the same name. Other locations included location on the Pennine £350 per week inc. wi-fi, Bridleway. Licensed. Dogs & linen, heat and power. Swaledale, and muddy boots welcome. Langthwaite. Open 7 days Contact: Chris Chandler 8.30am - 4.30pm Email: Thirty years on, and set against the Sunday bookings advisable [email protected] Tel: 01729 824114 Tel: 01729 822147 backdrop of Lower Wharfedale, the 2020 Best Coffee Shop & Tea Email: Web: settleholiday.co.uk series of All Creatures Great and Small Room in the Bay area [email protected] once again draws audiences into the iconic landscapes of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and the miles of drystone walls and iconic pattern of field barns it’s famous for. The new series was mostly filmed in Grassington, where The Devonshire Inn became the Drovers Arms, The Stripey Adventure and skills for all Badger bookstore became Darrowby’s • Caving at all levels • Guided Walks & local greengrocer, and the Rustic Rabbit • Climbing & Three Peaks gift shop became Higgins Bakers. The Abseiling • Team Building Drovers Arms interior scenes were filmed • Navigation Skills • Mountain Biking further north at the Green Dragon Inn, 01729 824455 • [email protected] , just a stone’s throw from the famous waterfall and only www.yorkshiredalesguides.co.uk 10 minutes from Askrigg. Filming for Series 2 is due to happen this spring. Keep your eyes peeled if you’re heading that way.

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Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 21 Stars in our Eyes

Throughout time, people have looked up On a clear night it is possible to see as We are thrilled that this very special at the vast night sky, alive with stars, for many as 2,000 stars, pick out the red glow quality had been recognised with Yorkshire inspiration and an escape from the daily of Mars, or see the finer details of Dales National Park’s designation as an hustle and bustle. constellations such as Orion the Hunter. International Dark Sky Reserve. Awarded You might even catch the brilliant dancing in December 2020 by the US-based With large expanses completely free from glow of the Northern Lights, when activity International Dark-Sky Association, the light pollution, Yorkshire Dales National and conditions are right, as well as the Dales joins an exclusive global family of Park is the perfect place to experience a International Space Station travelling at Dark Sky Places. truly dark sky, offering stargazers the 17,000mph overhead. chance to lose themselves in the wonders of the heavens above.

How to begin your chosen for their accessibility, with car And wear warm clothing as clear skies parking and other facilities on site. are also the most chilly nights! celestial adventure Getting started does not require a lot of For tips on viewing the sky at night, With four official Dark Sky Discovery expensive gear - there is plenty to see and what to look for and when, pick up Sites at Hawes and Malham National with the naked eye before stepping up a our ‘Stargazing’ leaflet from National Park Visitor Centres, Buckden National notch to a telescope. Park Visitor Centres or visit Park car park, and Tan Hill Inn, the Dales www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/stargazing Be patient. As your eyes adjust to the offers a grandstand view of the starry sky darkness, the more you will see. in all its glory. These sites have been

Stars over Ribblehead Viaduct (Matthew Savage) 22 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk Our annual Dark Skies Festival, held jointly with North Moors National Park each February half term, offers a galaxy of stargazing events brought to you by local businesses and supported by experts. In 2021 the Festival went virtual, with Neill Sanders of Go Stargazing helping us to provide an array of phenomenal astronomers to guide us on a celestial journey and inspire a new audience to visit Yorkshire Dales National Park. You can still join the experience at www.facebook.com/gostargazinguk And this autumn we are hoping to get out and look up once again with our Dark Skies Fringe Festival and offer some new and exciting events - keep an eye on www.nationalparksdarkskies.org.uk for details and see the Dales in a new light.

A stargazing evening at Bolton Castle Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 23 Look out for this logo around the National Park - it shows that a business is ‘Dark Sky Friendly’, meaning they’ve gone the extra mile to enhance your stargazing experience. Many places to stay have taken steps to reduce light pollution on their property so you can enjoy viewing the night sky on the premises. They can provide equipment such as telescopes or binoculars, Learning about constellations at a Forest School event in Freeholders’ Wood, Aysgarth and reclining chairs with blankets, so you can relax and keep warm whilst looking at the stars. They will also have books and A year of stars even brighter. With binoculars you will see its four largest moons. star maps, and might run special events Astronomer Richard Darn shares which with an expert as part of your stay. celestial events to keep an eye out for The Perseids meteor shower peaks on Other venues are doing their bit to look in 2021. 12 August and a crescent moon sets early in the evening, leaving dark skies, after the Dales dark sky and help you One of the great things about stargazing enjoy it. These are places which have which is ideal. Use your naked eye and is the way the heavens change throughout be patient. taken steps to reduce light pollution, are the year as the Earth speeds on its once holding special stargazing events, or a year orbit around the Sun. There is Truly dark skies return in August and it’s providing useful hints and tips on where always something new to glimpse. Dark the ideal time to enjoy the Milky Way, to view, so you’ll be ready for some areas like the Yorkshire Dales are ideal directly overhead late evening and best ultimate stargazing. for viewing the sky at night. on moonless nights. Wonderful constellations like Andromeda, Cygnus The first of three Supermoons is on 27 and Cassiopeia are great for scanning April when the moon is a bit brighter with binoculars. and bigger than usual. Three more stunning meteors showers From May until the end of July you may close the year with the Orionids, be able to see ghostly and electric blue peaking on 21 October, and the Leonids noctilucent clouds. These are the highest on 17 November. But the best of the lot that can form in the Earth’s atmosphere is the excellent Geminids on 13 and glow in the dark. Look north after December. Shooting stars are usually sunset or before sunrise on a clear night visible between 7 and 17 December so and you may strike lucky. look high in the south east and enjoy Saturn is at its best early August and the spectacle. looks like a bright yellow ‘star’ low down in the south at midnight. Use a telescope and you will be able to see its ABOUT THE AUTHOR fantastic rings. Jupiter is close by and Richard sat on the working group that led to the designation of the International Dark Sky Pen-y-ghent and the Milky Way (Pete Collins) Park and helped launch the Kielder Observatory. He acts as a consultant on astro tourism and dark skies conservation for protected landscapes across the UK, and has appeared on BBC Sky at Night and Stargazing Live.

Starry sky over Malham Tarn (Christopher Werrett)

24 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk WHAT’S ON IN THE YORKSHIRE DALES

Whether you want to become a nature have planned - or even if an event can be Disclaimer detective, learn a new skill, or discover the enjoyed online from the comfort of your The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority cannot Dales’ culture and history, event providers own home. be held responsible for any omissions, subsequent across the National Park look forward to changes or revisions that may occur with events The Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes information supplied by external agencies. welcoming you back with something is offering a series of Zoom and Instagram You are STRONGLY ADVISED to contact the event special this year. provider to confirm the information given BEFORE sessions with a local artist this year, as well setting out. Booking is essential for some events. Listed on these pages is just a taster of the as Hands On History Kits to get creative in All information included is believed to be correct at many fantastic activities that a host of your own living room - for details see the time of going to print, and is subject to current Government coronavirus guidelines. local organisations hope to share with you www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk. in 2021, from a glorious celebration of And you can revisit some truly music during Swaledale Festival to exciting out-of-this-world happenings from events marking Richmond Castle’s 950th our first Virtual Dark Skies Festival at Dogs birthday. www.facebook.com/gostargazinguk Dogs are welcome at many events, but Please check the latest national Remember to dress appropriately for walks please assume they are NOT permitted guidelines, as well as contacting the and outdoor activities - the weather in the and always contact the organiser event provider using the details given to Dales can be changeable. Bring drinks and beforehand to avoid disappointment. confirm that your chosen activity is going snacks, wear suitably stout footwear, and Where dogs are allowed they must be ahead before setting out. carry clothing to suit all conditions. fit enough to negotiate stiles and steep You will also be able to find out from the Visit www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/events to ascents, be well-behaved, and be event provider about more events they find out more. We hope to see you there! kept under close control on a short fixed lead at all times. Assistance dogs are always welcome.

Events with a blue background are hosted by the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes, and led by our knowledgeable Dales Volunteers and invited experts. Use this handy key to help you make your choice.

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Give your Be safe car a break Our event leaders have discretion not to accept participants who are not Many National Park events can be suitably equipped or whom they reached by bus or train. For public consider unable to participate safely. transport information visit Although all reasonable steps have www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/travel been taken to ensure safety, participants join in at their own risk.

Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 25 APRIL Saturday 24 April to Saturday 8 May shape into rails and uprights using carving Guided Coast to Coast Walking Holiday axes and drawknives. Mortise and tenon Wednesday 21 to Thursday 22 April 17:00 to 09:00 joints are used to assemble the hurdle Basket Making - English Round Baskets From the Lake District through the which is then secured with handmade Broadrake, Chapel-le-Dale, Ingleton LA6 3AX Yorkshire Dales to the North York Moors. wooden pegs. Come as a pair - the price is Popular willow weaving and basketry tutor We will be staying in B&Bs/hotels and for two people to make one hurdle gate. Phil Bradley will lead this two day your luggage will be transported daily, so £150 - includes lunch and refreshments. workshop in the skills necessary to make a all you need to carry is a day sack. The 015242 41357 traditional English Round Basket. His walk is fully guided by a Mountain Leader. [email protected] gentle, relaxed teaching style will guide £1,380. www.broadrake.co.uk you through the various weaving patterns 07957 972800 for the different parts of the basket - the [email protected] base, sides, and the final edging for the www.northernguiding.co.uk MAY English basket. You will gain an understanding of how the willow behaves Saturday 1 to Tuesday 4 May Tuesday 27 to Wednesday 28 April as you weave and after the final trimming Guided Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walk over 3 days Backpacking Weekend up you will have a large and useful basket Horton-in-Ribblesdale 08:00 to 17:00 you will be proud of to take home. £135 - On this event we take a more leisurely Ribblehead includes lunch and refreshments. approach and climb the Yorkshire 3 Peaks We backpack the 24 miles of the Yorkshire 015242 41357 over 3 days, each day climbing a separate Three Peaks over 2 days, starting and [email protected] peak. £110. finishing at Ribblehead, plus an overnight www.broadrake.co.uk 07957 972800 stay in Horton-in-Ribblesdale. £80. [email protected] 07957 972800 Saturday 24 April www.northernguiding.co.uk [email protected] Guided Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walk www.northernguiding.co.uk 06:30 to 18:30 Saturday 1 to Tuesday 4 May The challenge is to climb the 24 miles of Guided Wharfedale 3 Peaks in 3 Days Thursday 29 April Whernside, Inglebrough and Pen-y-ghent Kettlewell, Skipton BD23 5QZ Greenwood Workshop - in under 12 hours. £45. We climb the 3 highest peaks in Cleft Ash Hurdle Gates 07957 972800 Wharfedale over 3 days, with a separate 09:45 to 16:30 [email protected] walk over each fell each day. £110. Broadrake, Chapel-le-Dale, Ingleton LA6 3AX www.northernguiding.co.uk 07957 972800 Starting with an ash log you will learn how [email protected] to split it with tutor Phil Bradley, then www.northernguiding.co.uk

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26 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk Wednesday 5 to Thursday 6 May Thursday 13 May Key for National Park Authority-organised events. Spoon Carving for Beginners Willow Plant Supports For more advice - see page 23. Broadrake, Chapel-le-Dale, Ingleton LA6 3AX 09:45 to 16:30 This two-day workshop is perfect for Broadrake, Chapel-le-Dale, Ingleton LA6 3AX Art online activity Demonstration beginners or those wanting more time to One day sculptural willow weaving embed the main skills involved in workshops with lovely views of Ingleborough, Created for kids Talk greenwood spoon carving. We’ll start with Whernside and Ribblehead. The plant the basic techniques of axe work to supports will employ some traditional Activity Special Event roughly shape a kitchen stirring utensil, basket weaves into the structure and sweet followed by knife work, with an emphasis peas or runner beans can be trained up over Experience Day on working safely and efficiently, and with the upright framework. Tutor Phil Bradley’s the grain of the wood to get a smooth relaxed, gentle teaching style will guide you Saturday 29 to Monday 31 May finish Take home a range of finished items through all the processes to make sure you Swaledale Festival 2021: Family Fun Day including a stirring spoon, a butter master the basic skills for each stage. £70. 09:00 to 17:00 spreader and a cranked eating spoon. 015242 41357 Reeth DL11 6SE All tools and materials provided. £165 - [email protected] A free event for all the family, with clog includes lunch and refreshments. www.broadrake.co.uk dancing, live music, and entertainment for 015242 41357 children of all ages. [email protected] Sunday 16 to Friday 21 May 01748 880018 www.broadrake.co.uk Guided Herriot Way Walking Holiday [email protected] 20:00 to 09:00 www.swalefest.org Saturday 8 May Hawes Guided Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walk The Herriot Way Runs through Swaledale Saturday 29 to Sunday 6 June 06:30 to 18:30 and Wensleydale. We will be staying in Clapham Art Exhibition Ribblehead B&Bs/hotels, and there is a daily luggage 11:00 to 18:00 Challenge yourself to climb the 24 mile transfer so you only have to carry a day Clapham Village Hall LA2 8HR route of Whernside, Inglebrough and Pen- sack. Led by a Mountain Leader. £580. All original artwork exhibited by members y-ghent in under 12 hours. £45. 07957 972800 of Clapham Art Group. Adults 50p, 07957 972800 [email protected] accompanied under 12s free. [email protected] www.northernguiding.co.uk Refreshments in aid of local church. Details www.northernguiding.co.uk subject to any Government restrictions Saturday 22 May applying at the time. Saturday 8 May Guided Wharfedale 3 Peaks Challenge [email protected] Orton Farmers’ Market 07:30 to 18:30 09:30 to 14:00 Kettlewell, Skipton BD23 5QZ Sunday 30 May Orton Market Hall CA10 3RU We’ll climb the 3 highest peaks in Swaledale Festival: The Young’uns Over 25 local farmers, growers, producers Wharfedale: , Buckden Garden Rooms at Tennants, and artisan craftsmen offering a Pike and Firth Fell - that’s 18 miles and Leyburn DL8 5SG tremendous variety of high quality and 1,200 metres of ascent in under 10 hours. The three superstars from Stockton speciality local produce and crafts. Themed £45. enchant us with their haunting songs and markets each month. A great day out for 07957 972800 captivating stories of North East all the family. Plenty to do in the [email protected] characters, and life in general. There are surrounding area. www.northernguiding.co.uk two performances: 4-5pm and 7.30- 07969 335598 8.30pm. £16 (under 25s £3). [email protected] Sunday 23 May 07811 851584 www.ortonfarmers.co.uk A Woolly Wander Experience [email protected] 10:00 to 15:00 www.swalefest.org Sunday 9 May Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Learn to map read Hawes DL8 3NT Monday 31 May 09:30 to 16:00 Visit a local alpaca farm on Raydaleside, Swaledale Festival: Society of Strange & Kettlewell, Skipton BD23 5QZ meet the animals and take them for a Ancient Instruments - ‘The Trumpet Do you want to learn how to use a gentle stroll through the spectacular Marine Project’ compass, take bearings or get yourself off landscape of the Yorkshire Dales, with St Andrew’s Church, Grinton DL11 6HR the hill in bad weather? This course stunning views of the Dales’ second The entertaining early music adventurers includes navigation using linear features largest natural lake, Semerwater. Guided bring back to life an extinct ancient such as walls and rivers, map symbols, by a local crafter, explore the museum instrument: the trumpet marine (which, by types of map, grid references and compass textile gallery and learn the techniques the way, is neither a trumpet nor marine). bearings. £50.00 and processes to create your own felted Four of these will be heard together for 07957 972800 picture using wool from the alpacas you the first time since 1674! Two [email protected] have met! Lunch is included, provided by performances: 4-5pm and 7.30-8.30pm. www.northernguiding.co.uk the Firebox Café. Booking essential. £50. £12 (under 25s £3) 01969 666210 07811 851584 [email protected] [email protected] www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk www.swalefest.org

Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 27 JUNE Wednesday 9 June types of map, grid references and compass Swaledale Festival: ‘Josquin to Jones; bearings. £50. Tuesday 1 June Schubert to Sting’ 07957 972800 Drystone Walling Demonstration St Andrew’s Church, Grinton DL11 6HR [email protected] 11:00 to 15:00 Clare Wilkinson (mezzo sop), John Potter www.northernguiding.co.uk Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, (tenor), Susanna Pell (viols), Jacob Hawes DL8 3NT Heringman (lutes) - four stellar musicians Monday 14 to Thursday 17 June Join our Dales Volunteers as they showcase perform uplifting lute songs from the Guided Wharfedale 3 Peaks in 3 Days the traditional craft of drystone walling Renaissance to the present day, including 20:00 to 16:00 and explain the construction of this iconic the world-premieres of songs by rock stars Kettlewell, Skipton BD23 5QZ feature of the National Park landscape, Sting and Led Zeppelin’s John Paul Jones. We climb the 3 highest peaks in from the foundations to the top stones. Two performances: 4-5pm and 7.30- Wharfedale over 3 days, with a separate In 4 drop-in sessions they talk through the 8.30pm. £16 (U25 £3). walk over each fell each day. £110. process of turning a pile of stones into 07811 851584 07957 972800 something that will last for centuries. [email protected] [email protected] Included in Museum admission - adult www.swalefest.org www.northernguiding.co.uk £4.80, children free, concessions £4.30. 01969 666210 Friday 11 June Thursday 17 June [email protected] Swaledale Festival: Catrin Finch (harp) & A Woolly Wander Experience www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk Seckou Keita (kora) 10:00 to 15:00 St Andrew’s Church, Grinton DL11 6HR Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Tuesday 1 to Friday 4 June Welsh harp virtuoso meets Senegalese Hawes DL8 3NT Guided Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walk over 3 days kora master - music made in heaven! Two Visit a local alpaca farm on Raydaleside, 20:00 to 16:00 performances: 4-5pm and 7.30-8.30pm. meet the animals and take them for a Horton-in-Ribblesdale Adult £16, child £3. gentle stroll through the spectacular On this event we take a more leisurely 07811 851584 landscape of the Yorkshire Dales, with approach and climb the Yorkshire 3 peaks [email protected] stunning views of the Dales second largest over 3 days, each day climbing a separate www.swalefest.org natural lake, Semerwater. Guided by a peak. £110. local crafter, explore the museum textile [email protected] Saturday 12 June gallery and learn the techniques and www.northernguiding.co.uk Guided Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walk processes to create your own felted picture 06:30 to 18:30 using wool from the alpacas you have Wednesday 2 June Ribblehead met! Lunch is included, provided by the Textile Techniques Afternoons The challenge of this walk is to climb the Firebox Café. Booking essential. £50. 13:00 to 16:00 24 miles of Whernside, Inglebrough and 01969 666210 Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Pen-y-ghent in under 12 hours. £45. [email protected] Hawes DL8 3NT 07957 972800 www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk In the Museum’s textile gallery volunteers [email protected] will demonstrate a range of different www.northernguiding.co.uk Saturday 19 to Sunday 20 June textile techniques. Included in Museum Backpacking Weekend admission - adult £4.80, children free, Saturday 12 June 08:00 to 17:00 concessions £4.30. Orton Farmers’ Market Ribblehead 01969 666210 09:30 to 14:00 Backpack the Yorkshire 3 peaks, starting [email protected] Orton Market Hall CA10 3RU and finishing at Ribblehead with an www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk Over 25 local farmers, growers, producers overnight stay in Horton-in-Ribblesdale - and artisan craftsmen offering a that’s 24 miles over 2 days. £80. Saturday 5 June tremendous variety of high quality and 07957 972800 Swaledale Festival: Voice Trio - ‘Hildegard speciality local produce and crafts. Themed [email protected] Transfigured: A Medieval Trance for the markets each month. A great day out for www.northernguiding.co.uk 21st Century’. all the family. Plenty to do in the St Mary’s, Richmond DL10 7AQ surrounding area. Saturday 19 June In partnership with ‘RICHMOND 950’, a 07969 335598 Guided Walk: and sublime piece of concert/theatre by top [email protected] Horseshoe female vocal trio Voice, accompanied by www.ortonfarmers.co.uk 09:00 to 16:00 an extraordinary psychedelic light show, A scenic 9.5m (15km) guided walk of no celebrating the 12th century composer Sunday 13 June more than five people, plus your guide, to and visionary Hildegard von Bingen. Two Learn to map read summit three mountains, passing through performances: 8.30-9.30am and 11am-12 09:30 to 16:00 three counties. From Casterton Fell, we go noon. £12 (U25 £3). Kettlewell, Skipton BD23 5QZ on to ‘The Three Men of Gragareth’ - 01748 880019 Do you want to learn how to use a three large cairns overlooking the valley of [email protected] compass, take bearings or get yourself off Ease Gill - and fine views from the trig www.swalefest.org the hill in bad weather? This course point to the Lakeland fells. The gently includes navigation using linear features rounded summit of Great Coum at 687 such as walls and rivers, map symbols, metres will be our highest point. From The

28 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk Crag on Crag Hill, we may even see JULY Key for National Park Authority-organised events. Bay. £38. Thursday 1 July For more advice - see page 23. 07870 778585 Willow Curlews [email protected] Art online activity Demonstration 09:45 to 16:30 www.peakwalking.com Broadrake, Chapel-le-Dale, Ingleton LA6 3AX Created for kids Talk One day sculptural willow weaving Saturday 19 to Saturday 26 June workshop with lovely views of Guided Dales Way Walking Holiday Activity Special Event Ingleborough, Whernside and Ribblehead. 17:00 to 09:00 The curlew is an iconic Yorkshire Dales bird The Dales Way is 84 miles long, running Experience Day that breeds in neighbouring fields around through the Yorkshire Dales. We’ll stay in Broadrake and often flies over our site B&Bs/hotels and there is a daily luggage with its evocative call. Tutor Phil Bradley’s Tutor Phil Bradley’s relaxed, gentle transfer so all you need to carry is a day relaxed, gentle teaching style will guide teaching style will guide you through all sack. The walk is led by a Mountain you through all the processes to make sure the processes to make sure that you Leader. £830. that you master the basic skills for each master the basic skills for each stage. £70. 07957 972800 stage. £70. 015242 41357 [email protected] 015242 41357 [email protected] www.northernguiding.co.uk [email protected] www.broadrake.co.uk www.broadrake.co.uk Sunday 20 June Thursday 8 July Guided Walk: Cautley Spout & Saturday 3 to Sunday 4 July A Woolly Wander Experience 09:30 to 16:00 Backpacking Weekend 10:00 to 15:00 Sedbergh We backpack the 24 miles of the Yorkshire Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, An 11m (18km) guided walk as part of a 3 peaks over 2 days, starting and finishing Hawes DL8 3NT small group to explore the beautiful at Ribblehead and with an overnight stay Visit a local alpaca farm on Raydaleside, Howgill Fells, their highest point, The Calf, in Horton-in-Ribblesdale. £80. meet the animals and take them for a and England’s tallest waterfall. The return 07957 972800 gentle stroll through the spectacular to Sedbergh is a high level route crossing [email protected] landscape of the Yorkshire Dales, with over the tops of Bram Rigg Top, Calders, www.northernguiding.co.uk stunning views of the Dales second largest and the broad grassy ridge of Rowantree natural lake, Semerwater. Guided by a Grains. £38. Thursday 8 July local crafter, explore the museum textile 07870 778585 Giant Willow Seed Pods gallery and learn the techniques and [email protected] 09:45 to 16:30 processes to create your own felted picture www.peakwalking.com Broadrake,Chapel-le-Dale, Ingleton LA6 3AX using wool from the alpacas you have One day sculptural willow weaving met! Lunch is included, provided by the Saturday 26 June workshop with lovely views of Firebox Café. Booking essential. £50. Guided Wharfedale 3 Peaks Challenge Ingleborough, Whernside and Ribblehead, 01969 666210 07:30 to 18:30 inspired by a variety of natural forms [email protected] Kettlewell, Skipton BD23 5QZ found in both wild and garden flowers. www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk We climb the 3 highest peaks in Wharfedale: Great Whernside, and Firth Fell - a total of 18 miles and 1,200 metres of ascent - in under 10 hours. £45. 07957 972800 [email protected] www.northernguiding.co.uk

Tuesday 29 June to Thursday 1 July Backpacking Weekend Taking in the high and low level routes of the Coast to Coast path through Swaledale, from Keld to Reeth and back again. £80. 07957 972800 [email protected] www.northernguiding.co.uk

Hear tales from the traditional farmhouse kitchen at the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes, with dairying and breadmaking demonstrations

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Saturday 17 July Swaledale Festival : Hut People Raygill House Farm Barn, Hawes DL8 3PP Swaledale Festival’s favourite duo are back again with their highly entertaining mix of folk music from around the world. Two performances: 2-3pm and 5-6pm. Adult £12, child £3. 07811 851584 [email protected] www.swalefest.org

Saturday 17 July See the traditional craft of drystone walling brought to life in the Dales Countryside Museum’s outdoor amphitheatre Richmond 950 Event: Golf 950 Fun Day Richmond (Yorks) Golf Club Saturday 10 July including both proddy and hooked Putting competition; 950 attempts at a Orton Farmers’ Market techniques. Included in Museum hole in 1; kids event and more. Fancy 09:30 to 14:00 admission - adult £4.80, children free, dress encouraged! Orton Market Hall CA10 3RU concessions £4.30. 01748 825 525 Over 25 local farmers, growers, producers 01969 666210 [email protected] and artisan craftsmen offering a [email protected] www.richmondyorksgolfclub.co.uk tremendous variety of high quality and www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk speciality local produce and crafts. Themed Saturday 17 July markets each month. A great day out for Monday 12 July Ingleton Gala all the family. Plenty to do in the Settle Flowerpot Festival 12:00 to 17:00 surrounding area. Stroll around Settle during the summer Ingleton 07969 335598 months and be amazed, amused, An afternoon of fun for all the family, [email protected] entertained, astounded and astonished including parade through the village, stalls, www.ortonfarmers.co.uk by the wonderful flowerpot displays sports races, refreshments and much more. decorating our lovely town. Fun for all www.facebook.com/ingletongala Saturday 10 July the family. Flowerpot Trails are available Art Online: ’s Swaledale for £2 each from Settle Tourist Monday 19 July 10:00 to 11:00 Information Centre and other outlets Richmond 950 Event: Community Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, throughout the town. Archaeology Project Hawes DL8 3NT 01729 824431 08:00 to 17:00 Artist Anji Timlin will be live on Instagram [email protected] Richmond Castle DL10 4QW @anjitimlin using beloved Dales authors www.visitsettle.co.uk One of the centrepieces of the Richmond Marie Hartley and ’s book 950 celebrations. Solstice Heritage begin ‘Swaledale’ as inspiration to make Monday 12 to Thursday 15 July excavations. Volunteers welcome, no paintings and drawings in her sketchbook Guided Wharfedale 3 Peaks in 3 Days experience necessary and open to all. in response to quotes from the books. Join Kettlewell, Skipton BD23 5QZ 01748 825 525 her and learn some techniques as you We climb the 3 highest peaks in [email protected] work on your own sketches. Afterwards, Wharfedale over 3 days, with a separate www.richmond950.co.uk you can post your work to the fell each day. £110. #dalesmuseumartclub. We will publish 07957 972800 Monday 19 to Thursday 22 July more details on how to join online on our [email protected] Guided Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walk over 3 days website. £5 suggested donation. www.northernguiding.co.uk Horton-in-Ribblesdale 01969 666210 On this event we take a more leisurely [email protected] Saturday 17 July approach and climb the Yorkshire 3 peaks www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk Art Online- Marie Hartley’s Swaledale over 3 days, each day a different peak. 10:30 to 12:30 £110. Sunday 11 July Join Artist Anji Timlin from home in a 2 07957 972800 Traditional Rugmaking Demonstration hour online Zoom group workshop using [email protected] 11:00 to 16:00 Marie Hartley and Ella Pontefract’s book www.northernguiding.co.uk Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, ‘Swaledale’ as inspiration to make a Hawes DL8 3NT painting or drawing in ink in response to Thursday 22 July A demonstration of traditional rug making, quotes from this inspiring book. We will In the Kitchen - Bread Making

30 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk 13:00 to 16:00 permitting, activities will be able to be Key for National Park Authority-organised events. Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, completed on site and included in Museum For more advice - see page 23. Hawes DL8 3NT admission (remove comma) - adult £4.80, See Mrs H in our traditional Dales children free, concessions £4.30. Art online activity Demonstration Farmhouse Kitchen and discover the 01969 666210 history of bread making and how it has [email protected] Created for kids Talk changed from Roman times to now. www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk Included in Museum admission - adult Activity Special Event £4.80, children free, concessions £4.30. Tuesday 27 July 01969 666210 Drystone Walling Demonstration Experience Day [email protected] 11:00 to 15:00 www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Thursday 29 July Hawes DL8 3NT In the Kitchen - Dairy Days Saturday 24 July Join our Dales Volunteers as they 13:00 to 16:00 Guided Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walk showcase the traditional craft of drystone Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, 06:30 to 18:30 walling and explain the construction of this Hawes DL8 3NT Ribblehead iconic feature of the National Park landscape, See Mrs H in our traditional Dales The challenge of this walk is to climb the from the foundations to the top stones. In Farmhouse Kitchen and discover the 24 miles of Whernside, Inglebrough and 4 drop-in sessions they talk through the history of dairying and how making Pen-y-ghent in under 12 hours. £45. process of turning a pile of stones into cheese and butter have changed through 07957 972800 something that will last for centuries. the ages. Included in Museum admission - [email protected] Included in Museum admission - adult £4.80, children free, concessions £4.30. www.northernguiding.co.uk £4.80, children free, concessions £4.30. 01969 666210 01969 666210 [email protected] Saturday 24 July [email protected] www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk Art Online: Marie Hartley’s Swaledale www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk 10:00 to 11:00 Saturday 31 July Artist Anji Timlin will be live on Instagram Wednesday 28 July Guided Wharfedale 3 Peaks Challenge Print a Meadow @anjitimlin using Marie Hartley and Ella 07:30 to 18:30 Pontefract’s book ‘Swaledale’ as inspiration 13:00 to 16:30 Kettlewell, Skipton BD23 5QZ to make paintings and drawings in her Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, We climb the 3 highest peaks in sketchbook in response to quotes from the Hawes DL8 3NT Wharfedale: Great Whernside, Buckden books. Join her and learn some techniques Join artist Hester Cox for one of her half Pike and Firth Fell - that is a total of 18 as you work on your own sketches. hour sessions. Hester will demonstrate miles and 1,200 metres of ascent, with the Afterwards, you can post your work to the how to create simple stamps of the aim to complete in under 10 hours. £45. #dalesmuseumartclub. We will publish flowers, grasses, insects and birds that 07957 972800 more details on how to join online on our you find in the beautiful hay meadows of [email protected] website. £5 suggested donation. the Yorkshire Dales. You can then print a www.northernguiding.co.uk 01969 666210 card to take home as well as print onto a [email protected] collaborative piece. This fun activity is Saturday 31 July www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk suitable for children and adults alike. An Introduction to Collagraph Included in Museum admission - adult Printmaking Monday 26 July £4.80, children free, concessions £4.30. 10:30 to 16:00 Settle Graveyard Tours Max 6 per session. Booking essential. Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, 14:30 to 19:30 01969 666210 Hawes DL8 3NT Settle Parish Church BD24 9JE [email protected] Join printmaker Hester Cox and take the Join a celebration of Settle’s ancestors in www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk landscape and wildlife of the Yorkshire Dales these weekly interactive tours - check the as your inspiration as you explore this Visit Settle website or the Settle Graveyard Wednesday 28 July exciting printmaking method. In the morning, Project Facebook page for dates, times Textile Techniques Afternoons Hester will demonstrate some simple and and weekly themes. There are plan B 13:00 to 16:00 effective techniques for making collagraph arrangements if it rains! All monies go to Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, plates using card, textured papers and support local charities. Adult £3, child £2. Hawes DL8 3NT pastes before working one-to-one with 01729 268235 In the Museum’s textile gallery, participants to help them develop their [email protected] volunteers will demonstrate different own design. The printing plates will then be textile techniques. Included in Museum printed in the afternoon using her portable Tuesday 27 July admission - adult £4.80, children free, press. The workshop is suitable for complete Hands-on History Kit: concessions £4.30. beginners or artists wanting an introduction Viking Bracelets 01969 666210 to a new technique. Lunch and materials 10:00 to 16:00 [email protected] included. Booking essential. £50. Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk 01969 666210 Hawes DL8 3NT [email protected] Get creative at home with this activity bag www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk and make a Viking bracelet. Covid

Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 31 Saturday 31 July Tuesday 3 August 01969 666210 Art Online: Marie Hartley’s Swaledale Hands-on History Kit: [email protected] 10:30 to 12:30 Roman Mosaics www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk Join Artist Anji Timlin from home in a 2 10:00 to 16:00 hour online Zoom group workshop using Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Thursday 5 August Marie Hartley and Ella Pontefract’s book Hawes DL8 3NT In the Kitchen - ‘Swaledale’ as inspiration to make a Get creative at home with this activity bag Bringing in the Drinkings painting or drawing in ink in response to and make your own roman mosaics 13:00 to 16:00 quotes from this inspiring book. We will coaster. Covid-permitting, activities will be Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, publish more details of materials needed, able to be completed on site and included Hawes DL8 3NT and on how to join online on our website. in Museum admission - adult £4.80, See Mrs H in our traditional Dales £10 suggested donation. children free, concessions £4.30. Farmhouse Kitchen and find out about 01969 666210 01969 666210 “bringing in the drinkings” during haytime [email protected] [email protected] when farming families brought out food www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk and drink to the workers in the fields. Included in Museum admission - adult Tuesday 3 August £4.80, children free, concessions £4.30. AUGUST Drystone Walling Demonstration 01969 666210 [email protected] Sunday 1 August 11:00 to 15:00 Learn to map read Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk 09:30 to 16:00 Hawes DL8 3NT Friday 6 August Kettlewell, Skipton BD23 5QZ Join our Dales Volunteers as they Fun Fridays - Bush craft Do you want to learn how to use a showcase the traditional craft of drystone 13:00 to 16:00 compass, take bearings and get yourself walling and explain the construction of Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, off the hill in bad weather? This course this iconic feature of the National Park Hawes DL8 3NT includes navigation using linear features landscape, from the foundations to the Drop-in activity. Whittle a stick to cook such as walls and rivers, map symbols, top stones. In 4 drop-in sessions they talk treats over an open fire. Learn how to types of map, grid references and compass through the process of turning a pile of make and cook damper bread. Included bearings. £50.00. stones into something that will last for in Museum admission - adult £4.80, 07957 972800 centuries. Included in Museum children free, concessions £4.30. [email protected] admission - adult £4.80, children free, 01969 666210 www.northernguiding.co.uk concessions £4.30. 01969 666210 [email protected] www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk Monday 2 August [email protected] Settle Graveyard Tours www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk Saturday 7 August 14:30 to 19:30 Art Online: Marie Hartley’s Swaledale Settle Parish Church, Settle BD24 9JE Wednesday 4 to Monday 23 August Join a celebration of Settle’s ancestors in Settle Photographic Group Town Trail 10:00 to 11:00 weekly interactive tours throughout In the three weeks before Settle Artist Anji Timlin will be live on Instagram August - check the Visit Settle website or Photographic Group’s Annual Exhibition at @anjitimlin using Marie Hartley and Ella the Settle Graveyard Project Facebook Clapham Village Hall, the photographs are Pontefract’s book ‘Swaledale’ as inspiration page for dates, times and weekly themes. displayed in the shop and business to make paintings and drawings in her There are plan B arrangements if it rains! windows all over town. Each member can sketchbook in response to quotes from the All monies go to support local charities. choose three images they have taken in books. Join her and learn some techniques Adult £3, child £2. the past year which means that there is a as you work on your own sketches. 01729 268235 very varied selection. Pick up a trail map Afterwards, you can post your work to the [email protected] up from Settle Tourist Information Centre #dalesmuseumartclub. We will publish and enjoy a wander round town looking more details on how to join online on our Tuesday 3 August for the pictures. website. £5 suggested donation. Swaledale Festival: Solus Trumpet 015242 41397 01969 666210 Ensemble YAP [email protected] [email protected] St Andrew’s Church, Grinton DL11 6HR www.settlephotos.org www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk The glorious sound of five brilliant young trumpeters will gladden the hearts. Two Wednesday 4 August Saturday 7 to Monday 3 August Richmond 950 Event: Exhibition - 950 performances: 4-5pm and 7.30-8.30pm. Textile Techniques Afternoons Years of Communication in Richmond Adult £12, child £3. 13:00 to 16:00 07811 851584 Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, 10:30 to 16:00 [email protected] Hawes DL8 3NT Richmond Town Hall DL10 4QL www.swalefest.org In the Museum’s textile gallery volunteers Discover how Richmond has will be demonstrating different textile communicated since 1071, from locally to techniques. Included in Museum globally. Exhibition curated by members of admission - adult £4.80, children free, Richmond Rotary Club. Check website for concessions £4.30. opening times. 01748 825 525

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Thursday 12 August Settle Flowerpot Festival Stroll around Settle during the summer months and be amazed, amused, entertained, astounded and astonished by the wonderful flowerpot displays decorating our lovely town. Fun for all the family with Flowerpot Trails available for £2 each from Settle Tourist Information Centre and other outlets throughout the town. 01729 824431 Join Hester Cox to learn the art of collagraph printmaking or take part in an Art Online session on Zoom or Instagram with the Dales Countryside Museum [email protected] www.visitsettle.co.uk [email protected] 01969 666210 www.richmond950.co.uk [email protected] Thursday 12 August www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk In the Kitchen - Sausages Sunday 8 August 13:00 to 16:00 Traditional Rugmaking Tuesday 10 August Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Demonstration Drystone Walling Demonstration Hawes DL8 3NT 11:00 to 16:00 11:00 to 15:00 See Mrs H in our traditional Dales Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, farmhouse kitchen and discover the history Hawes DL8 3NT Hawes DL8 3NT of sausages and how they have changed A demonstration of traditional rug making Join our Dales Volunteers as they from Roman times to now. Included in including both proddy and hooked showcase the traditional craft of drystone Museum admission - adult £4.80, techniques. Included in Museum walling and explain the construction of children free, concessions £4.30. admission - adult £4.80, children free, this iconic feature of the National Park 01969 666210 concessions £4.30. landscape, from the foundations to the [email protected] 01969 666210 top stones. In 4 drop-in sessions they talk www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk [email protected] through the process of turning a pile of www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk stones into something that will last for Friday 13 August centuries. Included in Museum Fun Fridays - Creepy Crawlies Tuesday 10 August admission - adult £4.80, children free, 13:00 to 16:00 Hands-on History Kit: concessions £4.30. Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Georgian Willow Pattern 01969 666210 Hawes DL8 3NT 10:00 to 16:00 [email protected] Drop in activity. Use a magnifying glass to Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk see different types of creepy crawlies and Hawes DL8 3NT identify what you can find living in the Get creative at home with this activity bag Wednesday 11 August woodland. Then have a go at some bug and design your own willow pattern story Textile Techniques Afternoons related crafts. Included in Museum based on one you’ve made up or read. 13:00 to 16:00 admission - adult £4.80, children free, Covid permitting, activities will be able to Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, concessions £4.30. be completed on site and included in Hawes DL8 3NT 01969 666210 Museum admission - adult £4.80, In the Museum’s textile gallery volunteers [email protected] children free, concessions £4.30. will be demonstrating different textile www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk

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B6251 GISBURN A629 THORNTON A65 TOURIST INFORMATION CENTRE PEAK CONONLEY WETHERBY BOSTON B6478 BARNOLDSWICK IN-CRAVEN ILKLEY A658 COLLINGHAM SPA EARBY R CASH POINT EMBSAY AND BOLTON ABBEY Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at | 35 OTLEY HAREWOOD www.yorkshiredales.org.uk A629 STEAM RAILWAY CLITHEROE COWLING KEIGHLEY ECCUP RESERVOIR PETROL STATION A658 RAILWAY LINE POINT OF INTEREST PEAK EMBSAY AND BOLTON ABBEY STEAM RAILWAY Saturday 14 August Get creative at home with this activity top stones. In 4 drop-in sessions they talk Orton Farmers’ Market bag, and make a piece of weaving. Covid through the process of turning a pile of 09:30 to 14:00 permitting, activities will be able to be stones into something that will last for Orton Market Hall CA10 3RU completed on site and included in centuries. Included in Museum Over 25 local farmers, growers, producers Museum admission - adult £4.80, admission - adult £4.80, children free, and artisan craftsmen offering a children free, concessions £4.30. concessions £4.30. tremendous variety of high quality and 01969 666210 01969 666210 speciality local produce and crafts. Themed [email protected] [email protected] markets each month. A great day out for www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk all the family. Plenty to do in the surrounding area. Tuesday 17 August Wednesday 18 August 07969 335598 Drystone Walling Demonstration Textile Techniques Afternoons [email protected] 11:00 to 15:00 13:00 to 16:00 www.ortonfarmers.co.uk Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Hawes DL8 3NT Hawes DL8 3NT Tuesday 17 August Join our Dales Volunteers as they In the Museum’s textile gallery volunteers Hands-on History Kit- Weaving showcase the traditional craft of drystone will be demonstrating different textile 10:00 to 16:00 walling and explain the construction of techniques. Included in Museum Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, this iconic feature of the National Park admission - adult £4.80, children free, Hawes DL8 3NT landscape, from the foundations to the concessions £4.30. 01969 666210 [email protected] www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk

Thursday 19 August In the Kitchen - Oatcakes 13:00 to 16:00 Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Hawes DL8 3NT See Mrs H in our traditional Dales Farmhouse Kitchen and discover how oatcakes were made in the Yorkshire Dales. Included in Museum admission - adult £4.80, children free, concessions £4.30. 01969 666210 [email protected] www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk

Friday 20 August Fun Fridays - Leaf Crafts 13:00 to 16:00 Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Hawes DL8 3NT Drop-in activity. Collect beautiful leaves from around the museum and use them to create artwork. Included in Museum admission - adult £4.80, children free, concessions £4.30. 01969 666210 [email protected] www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk

Saturday 21 August Guided Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walk 06:30 to 18:30 Ribblehead The challenge of this walk is to climb the 24 miles of Whernside, Inglebrough and Pen-y-ghent in under 12 hours. 07957 972800 [email protected] www.northernguiding.co.uk Join a guided walk and leave the map reading to the leader! Learn about the National Park’s wildlife and heritage from the experts

36 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk Sunday 22 August concessions £4.30. Key for National Park Authority-organised events. Learn to map read 01969 666210 For more advice - see page 23. 09:30 to 16:00 [email protected] Kettlewell, Skipton BD23 5QZ www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk Art online activity Demonstration Do you want to learn how to use a compass, take bearings and get yourself Wednesday 25 August Created for kids Talk off the hill in bad weather? This course Textile Techniques Afternoons includes navigation using linear features 13:00 to 16:00 Activity Special Event such as walls and rivers, map symbols, Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, types of map, grid references and Hawes DL8 3NT Experience Day compass bearings. In the Museum’s textile gallery volunteers £50. will be demonstrating different textile Saturday 28 August to Saturday 11 07957 972800 techniques. Included in Museum September [email protected] admission - adult £4.80, children free, Guided Coast to Coast walking holiday www.northernguiding.co.uk concessions £4.30. 17:00 to 09:00 01969 666210 From the Lake District through the Sunday 22 August [email protected] Yorkshire Dales to the North York Moors. Stone Carving Demonstration www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk We will be staying in B&Bs/hotels and 10:00 to 16:00 your luggage will be transported daily, so Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Thursday 26 August all you need to carry is a day sack. The Hawes DL8 3NT In the Kitchen - Dairy Days walk is fully guided by a Mountain Leader. Join expert stonemason Ken Hughes as he 13:00 to 16:00 £1,380. explains the craft of stone carving. He will Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, 07957 972800 use old tools and traditional methods to Hawes DL8 3NT [email protected] demonstrate on stone masonry blocks. See Mrs H in our traditional Dales www.northernguiding.co.uk Ken has 30 years’ experience and has farmhouse kitchen and discover the previously worked at Fountains Abbey history of dairying and how making Saturday 28 to Monday 30 August and Liverpool Cathedral. Included in cheese and butter have changed through Guided Walking Weekend Museum admission - adult £4.80, the ages. Included in Museum Reeth children free, concessions £4.30. admission - adult £4.80, children free, We will do a walk on Saturday and 01969 666210 concessions £4.30. Sunday, meeting the night before when [email protected] 01969 666210 routes will be determined. £80. www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk [email protected] 07957 972800 www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk [email protected] Tuesday 24 August www.northernguiding.co.uk Hands-on History Kit: Coil Pots Friday 27 August 10:00 to 16:00 Fun Fridays - Den Making Sunday 29 August Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, 13:00 to 16:00 Richmond 950 Event: Mr. Yorke’s Walled Hawes DL8 3NT Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Garden Open Day Get creative at home with this activity bag Hawes DL8 3NT 13:00 to 17:30 and make a prehistoric coil pot with clay. Drop-in activity. Building a tree-mendous Enjoy a summer’s afternoon in this Covid permitting, activities will be able to den on our outdoor trail using sticks, rope restored 18th century garden. Tea and be completed on site and included in and woodland materials (provided). cake on sale. Fund raiser for local charities. Museum admission - adult £4.80, children Included in Museum admission - adult Adult £5, children free. free, concessions £4.30. £4.80, children free, concessions £4.30. www.richmond950.co.uk 01969 666210 01969 666210 [email protected] [email protected] Tuesday 31 August www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk Hands-on History Kit: Excavation Kit 10:00 to 16:00 Tuesday 24 August Saturday 28 to Monday 30 August Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Drystone Walling Demonstration Settle Photographic Group’s 13th Annual Hawes DL8 3NT 11:00 to 15:00 Exhibition Get creative at home with this activity Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, 10:00 to 17:00 bag and become an archaeologist with Hawes DL8 3NT Clapham Village Hall LA2 8HR your own excavation kit. Covid Join our Dales Volunteers as they Free event. Each member can choose three permitting, activities will be able to be showcase the traditional craft of drystone of the images they have taken in the past completed on site and included in walling and explain the construction of year which means that there is a very Museum admission - adult £4.80, this iconic feature of the National Park varied selection of photographs. children free, concessions £4.30. landscape, from the foundations to the 015242 41397 01969 666210 top stones. In 4 drop-in sessions they talk [email protected] [email protected] through the process of turning a pile of www.settlephotos.org www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk stones into something that will last for centuries. Included in Museum admission - adult £4.80, children free,

Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 37 Tuesday 31 August Lecture with local historian, Jane Hatcher, Monday 6 to Thursday 9 September Drystone Walling Demonstration talking about Richmond characters Guided Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walk over 3 days 11:00 to 15:00 appearing in her new book. Venue to be Horton-in-Ribblesdale Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, confirmed, may be via Zoom. On this event we take a more leisurely Hawes DL8 3NT www.richmondcivicsociety.org approach and climb the Yorkshire 3 peaks Join our Dales Volunteers as they over 3 days, each day a separate peak. showcase the traditional craft of drystone Thursday 2 September £110. walling and explain the construction of In the Kitchen - Preserving 07957 972800 this iconic feature of the National Park 13:00 to 16:00 [email protected] landscape, from the foundations to the Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, www.northernguiding.co.uk top stones. In 4 drop-in sessions they talk Hawes DL8 3NT through the process of turning a pile of See Mrs H in our traditional Dales Thursday 9 September stones into something that will last for Farmhouse Kitchen and discover the In the Kitchen - Sausages centuries Included in Museum admission - history and different ways of preserving 13:00 to 16:00 adult £4.80, children free, concessions £4.30. foods, such as pickling and salting. Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, 01969 666210 Included in Museum admission - adult Hawes DL8 3NT [email protected] £4.80, children free, concessions £4.30. See Mrs H in our traditional Dales www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk 01969 666210 farmhouse kitchen and discover the [email protected] history of sausages and how they have www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk changed from the Roman times to now. SEPTEMBER Included in Museum admission - adult Friday 3 September £4.80, children free, concessions £4.30. Wednesday 1 September Guided Walking Holiday: Dales High Way Swaledale Festival: Philippa Mo (violin) & 01969 666210 William Towers (counter-tenor) 17:00 [email protected] The Dales High Way is 90 miles long. For www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk St Andrew’s Church, Grinton DL11 6HR the duration of the holiday we stay in Fine violinist meets top-drawer counter- B&Bs/hotels, all you need to carry is a day Saturday 11 September tenor in a mouth-watering recital. Two sack as there is a daily luggage transfer. Wet Felting for Beginners performances: 4-5pm and 7.30-8.30pm. The walk is led by a Mountain Leader. 12:30 to 16:30 Adult £15, child £3. £830. Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, 07811 851584 07957 972800 Hawes DL8 3NT [email protected] [email protected] Learn to wet felt using alpaca and British www.swalefest.org www.northernguiding.co.uk sheep wool tops in a variety of vibrant or natural colours. A bit of elbow grease will Wednesday 1 to Thursday 2 September Backpacking Weekend Sunday 5 September be required! You will produce a range of Traditional Rugmaking samples and create an ‘alpaca’ themed 08:00 to 17:00 Demonstration panel. We will discover the science behind Ribblehead 11:00 to 16:00 the technique of wet felting and learn the We backpack the 24 miles of the Yorkshire Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, processes of bonding wool fibres together 3 Peaks over 2 days, starting and finishing Hawes DL8 3NT or even work in other exotic fibres to form at Ribblehead plus an overnight stay in A demonstration of traditional rug making a new and unique fabric. Booking Horton-in-Ribblesdale. £80. including both proddy and hooked essential. £45. All materials included. 07957 972800 techniques. Included in Museum 01969 666210 [email protected] admission - adult £4.80, children free, [email protected] www.northernguiding.co.uk concessions £4.30. www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk 01969 666210 Wednesday 1 September Textile Techniques Afternoons [email protected] Saturday 11 or Sunday 12 September www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk Richmond 950 Event: 13:00 to 16:00 Victorian Cricket Match Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Monday 6 September Richmondshire Cricket Club, Richmond Hawes DL8 3NT Settle Graveyard Tours Details and date tbc. In the Museum’s textile gallery volunteers 14:30 to 19:30 www.richmondshirecc.org.uk will be demonstrating different textile Settle Parish Church BD24 9JE techniques. Included in Museum Join a celebration of Settle’s ancestors in Saturday 11 September admission - adult £4.80, children free, these weekly interactive tours throughout Orton Farmers’ Market concessions £4.30. September - check the Visit Settle website 09:30 to 14:00 01969 666210 or the Settle Graveyard Project Facebook Orton Market Hall CA10 3RU [email protected] page for dates, times and weekly themes. Over 25 local farmers, growers, producers www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk There are plan B arrangements if it rains! and artisan craftsmen offering a All monies go to support local charities. tremendous variety of high quality and Wednesday 1 September Richmond 950 Event: ‘Richmond People’ Adult £3, child £2. speciality local produce and crafts. Themed 01729 268235 markets each month. A great day out for 19:30 to 21:00 [email protected] all the family. Plenty to do in the Richmond and District Civic Society surrounding area.

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Wednesday 15 September Swaledale Festival: Brìghde Chaimbeul (Scottish small pipes) St Andrew’s Church, Grinton DL11 6HR Two performances: 4-5pm and 7.30- 8.30pm. Adult £15, child £3. 07811 851584 [email protected] www.swalefest.org

Wednesday 15 to Thursday 16 September Basket Making - Square Baskets Broadrake, Chapel-le-Dale, Ingleton LA6 3AX The square basket is a recent addition to Join Semerwater Alpaca Ambles for a woolly wander with a difference our basketry workshops and is ideal for those who have some previous basket- making experience and are ready to move 07969 335598 Sunday 12 September to another style. You will gain an [email protected] A Woolly Wander Experience understanding of how the willow behaves www.ortonfarmers.co.uk 10:00 to 15:00 as you weave, and after the final trimming Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, up you will have a useful basket you will Sunday 12 September Hawes DL8 3NT be proud of to take home. Tutor Phil Settle Flowerpot Festival Visit a local alpaca farm on Raydaleside, Bradley’s gentle, relaxed teaching style will Stroll around Settle during the summer meet the animals and take them for a guide you through the various weaving months and be amazed, amused, gentle stroll through the spectacular patterns for the different parts. £135. entertained, astounded and astonished by landscape of the Yorkshire Dales, with 015242 41357 the wonderful flowerpot displays stunning views of the Dales’ second [email protected] decorating our lovely town. Fun Flowerpot largest natural lake, Semerwater. Guided www.broadrake.co.uk Trails are available for £2 each from Settle by a local crafter, explore the Museum’s Tourist Information Centre and other textile gallery and learn the techniques Saturday 18 September outlets throughout the town. and processes to create your own felted Wet and Needle Felting 01729 824431 picture using wool from the alpacas you 12:30 to 16:30 [email protected] have met! Lunch is included, provided by Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, www.visitsettle.co.uk the Firebox Café. Booking essential. £50. Hawes DL8 3NT 01969 666210 Suitable for beginners and for those with Sunday 12 September [email protected] some experience of felting. Wet and dry Blacksmith for a Day www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk needle felt using alpaca and wool tops in 09:45 to 16:30 a variety of vibrant or natural colours, and Broadrake, Chapel-le-Dale, Ingleton LA6 3AX Tuesday 14 September produce a range of samples to create a Tutor Adrian Wood works on decorative Swaledale Festival: Aurora Percussion Duo Yorkshire Dales themed panel. Explore blacksmithing commissions in his own St Mary The Virgin, Station Road, techniques such as applique and free forge at Hornby, Teeside when he’s not Richmond DL10 7AQ motion machine embroidery that you teaching others. The course is suitable for Two extraordinary percussionists perform might want to try at home. Booking beginners or those with a little experience musical acrobatics on a myriad of essential - £45. All materials included. and is a full day including lunch and instruments. Sublime and amazing! Two 01969 666210 refreshments. You will learn about the performances: 4-5pm and 7.30-8.30pm. [email protected] craft of the blacksmith, how to work safely Adult £15, child £3. www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk with hot metals and tools and create 07811 851584 several items to take home at the end of [email protected] the day. £105. www.swalefest.org 015242 41357 [email protected] www.broadrake.co.uk

Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 39 Thursday 30 September Horton-in-Ribblesdale Learn to map read On this event we take a more leisurely 09:30 to 16:00 approach and climb the Yorkshire 3 peaks Kettlewell, Skipton BD23 5QZ over 3 days, each day climbing a separate Do you want to learn how to use a peak. £110. compass, take bearings and get yourself of 07957 972800 the hill in bad weather? This course [email protected] includes navigation using linear features www.northernguiding.co.uk such as walls and rivers, map symbols, types of map, grid references and compass Monday 4 October bearings. £50. Settle Graveyard Tours 07957 972800 14:30 to 19:30 [email protected] Settle Parish Church BD24 9JE www.northernguiding.co.uk Join a celebration of Settle’s ancestors in these weekly interactive tours throughout Thursday 30 September October - check the Visit Settle website or Greenwood Workshop - Cleft Oak Stools the Settle Graveyard Project Facebook 09:45 to 16:30 page for dates, times and weekly themes. Broadrake, Chapel-le-Dale, Ingleton LA6 3AX There are plan B arrangements if it rains! Using greenwood working techniques you All monies go to support local charities. will learn to make an attractive oak stool. Adult £3, child £2. Look out for some fun and inventive sculptures this The shaping with hand tools gives a lovely 01729 268235 summer during Settle’s annual Flowerpot Festival tactile finish and the work is very [email protected] satisfying. Phil Bradley is a regular tutor at Saturday 18 to 26 September Broadrake and his relaxed teaching style Wednesday 6 October Richmond Walking and Book Festival and gentle humour will ensure students Swaledale Festival: Brìghde Chaimbeul 09:00 to 19:30 have an enjoyable day. £80. (Scottish small pipes) + Aidan O’Rourke Enjoy nine days of walks and author 015242 41357 16:00 to 17:00 events with speakers, including Horrible [email protected] St Andrew’s Church, Grinton DL11 6HR Histories Chief Researcher Henri Ward, www.broadrake.co.uk Young Artists Platform. In this keenly local China-expert Tim Clissold, and anticipated concert, the ultra-talented children’s events. young Scottish piper duets with the [email protected] OCTOBER marvellous violinist from folk super-group www.booksandboots.org Friday 1 October Lau. Two performances - 4-5pm and 7.30- Swaledale Festival: Meera Maharaja 8.30pm. Adult £15, under 25s £3. Saturday 25 September (flute) & Dominic Degavino (piano) YAP 07811 851584 Felt and Stitch St Andrew’s Church, Grinton DL11 6HR [email protected] 12:30 to 16:30 Young Artists Platform. A second www.swalefest.org Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, appearance at the Festival for the gifted Hawes DL8 3NT young flautist, this time with the young Wednesday 6 October Using alpaca and wool fleece, fibres and pianist Dominic Degavino as her duo Richmond 950 Event: Talk: The History of threads in a variety of natural and vibrant partner. Two performances: 4-5pm and Racing in Richmond colours, you will design and plan your 7.30-8.30pm. Adult £15, child £3. 19:30 to 21:00 own unique felted fabric. Exploring the 07811 851584 Richmond and District Civic Society basics of free motion embroidery and how [email protected] Lecture with Professor Michael Huggins, stabilisers, bondaweb and water-soluble www.swalefest.org author of several books on the history of fabrics can aid and enhance your work. sports culture and horse racing. Venue to Stitch and embellish to add textures and Saturday 2 to Saturday 16 October be confirmed; may be via Zoom. layers to your felt. Booking essential. Guided Coast to Coast walking holiday www.richmondcivicsociety.org £45 - all materials included. 17:00 to 09:00 01969 666210 From the Lake District through the Thursday 7 October [email protected] Yorkshire Dales to the North York Moors. Swaledale Festival: Moray Welsh Trio www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk We will be staying in B&Bs/hotels and (cello, violin & piano) your luggage will be transported daily so St Andrew’s Church, Grinton DL11 6HR Wednesday 29 September all you need to carry is a day sack. The The world class trio of Moray Welsh (clo), Guided Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walk walk is fully guided by a Mountain Leader. Marcia Crayford (vln) & Caroline 06:30 to 18:30 £1,380. Clemmow (pno) play Mozart’s Piano Trio Ribblehead 07957 972800 in G major K564; Fauré’s Elegy for Cello The challenge of this walk is to climb the [email protected] and Piano & Dvoák’s Piano Trio ‘The 24 miles of Whernside, Inglebrough and www.northernguiding.co.uk Dumky’ Op.90. Two performances: 4-5pm Pen-y-ghent in under 12 hours. £45. and 7.30-8.30pm. Adult £15, under 25s £3. 07957 972800 Sunday 3 to Wednesday 6 October 07811 851584 [email protected] Guided Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walk over 3 days [email protected] www.northernguiding.co.uk 20:00 to 16:00 www.swalefest.org

40 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk Saturday 9 October Horton-in-Ribblesdale. £80. Key for National Park Authority-organised events. Orton Farmers’ Market 07957 972800 For more advice - see page 23. 09:30 to 14:00 [email protected] Orton Market Hall CA10 3RU www.northernguiding.co.uk Art online activity Demonstration Over 25 local farmers, growers, producers and artisan craftsmen offering a Saturday 30 October Created for kids Talk tremendous variety of high quality and Art Online: speciality local produce and crafts. Themed Old Hand Knitters of the Dales Activity Special Event markets each month. A great day out for 10:30 to 12:30 all the family. Plenty to do in the Join Artist Anji Timlin from home in a 2 Experience Day surrounding area. hour online Zoom group workshop using 07969 335598 Marie Hartley and Joan Ingilby’s book Orton Market Hall CA10 3RU [email protected] ‘Old Hand Knitters of the Dales’ as Over 25 local farmers, growers, producers www.ortonfarmers.co.uk inspiration to make a painting or drawing and artisan craftsmen offering a in ink in response to quotes from this tremendous variety of high quality and Sunday 10 to Wednesday 13 October inspiring book. We will publish more speciality local produce and crafts. Themed Guided Wharfedale 3 Peaks in 3 Days details of materials needed, and on how markets each month. A great day out for 20:00 to 16:00 to join online on our website. all the family. Plenty to do in the Kettlewell, Skipton BD23 5QZ £10 suggested donation. surrounding area. We climb the 3 highest peaks in 01969 666210 07969 335598 Wharfedale over 3 days, with a separate [email protected] [email protected] walk over each fell each day. £110. www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk www.ortonfarmers.co.uk 07957 972800 [email protected] Sunday 14 November www.northernguiding.co.uk NOVEMBER Litton Birks Loop Fell Race Monday 1 November 12:00 to 16:00 Saturday 23 October Settle Graveyard Tours Litton BD23 5QJ Guided Yorkshire 3 Peaks Walk 14:30 to 19:30 The 3rd Litton Birks Loop Fell Race - 7.7 06:30 to 18:30 Settle Parish Church BD24 9JE km (4.8 miles) with 372 m (1,220 feet) of Ribblehead Join a celebration of Settle’s ancestors in ascent. A tough climb followed by a lovely The challenge of this walk is to climb the these weekly interactive tours throughout run around Birks Tarn with great views of 24 miles of Whernside, Inglebrough and November - check the Visit Settle website and Wharfedale and a fast Pen-y-ghent in under 12 hours. £45. or the Settle Graveyard Project Facebook descent. £6 entry includes food for all 07957 972800 page for dates, times and weekly themes. runners and a pint of LAMB Beer (all [email protected] There are plan B arrangements if it rains! proceeds towards good causes in www.northernguiding.co.uk All monies go to support local charities. Littondale). Minimum age 16. Adult £3, child £2. Refreshments available. Course records: Saturday 23 October 01729 268235 Kirsty Hall 44:11 (2018) & Ted Mason Art Online: [email protected] 36:44 (2018). Old Hand Knitters of the Dales 01756 770235 10:00 to 11:00 Wednesday 3 November [email protected] Artist Anji Timlin will be Live on Instagram Richmond 950 Event: The Community www.golittondale.co.uk @anjitimlin using Marie Hartley and Joan Archaeology Project Ingilby’s book ‘Old Hand Knitters of the 19:30 to 21:00 Friday 26 November Dales’ as inspiration to make paintings Richmond and District Civic Society Late Night Christmas Shopping and drawings in her sketchbook in Lecture: Talk with local archaeologist, Jim 16:00 to 20:30 response to quotes from the books. Join Brightman, reporting on the year’s project. Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, her and learn some techniques as you Venue tbc and may be via Zoom. Hawes DL8 3NT work on your own sketches. Afterwards, www.richmondcivicsociety.org Come and join us for a Christmas you can post your work to the shopping event. Our shop features #dalesmuseumartclub. We will publish Friday 5 to Sunday 7 November Distinctly Dales products created by local more details on how to join online on our Backpacking Weekend artists and producers which would make website. £5 suggested donation. A two day backpacking weekend taking in excellent Christmas gifts. Includes free 01969 666210 the high and low level routes of the Coast entry to the Museum. [email protected] to Coast path through Swaledale, from 01969 666210 www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk Keld to Reeth and back again the [email protected] following day. £80. www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk Friday 29 to Saturday 30 October 07957 972800 Backpacking Weekend [email protected] 08:00 to 17:00 www.northernguiding.co.uk Ribblehead We backpack the 24 miles of the Yorkshire Saturday 13 November 3 Peaks over 2 days, starting and finishing Orton Farmers’ Market at Ribblehead with an overnight stay in 09:30 to 14:00

Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 41 Friday 26 November DECEMBER Key for National Park Authority-organised events. Mother Christmas Monday 6 December For more advice - see page 23. 16:00 to 20:30 Settle Graveyard Tours Art online activity Demonstration Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, 14:30 to 19:30 Hawes DL8 3NT Settle Parish Church BD24 9JE Created for kids Talk Come and meet Mother Christmas who Join a celebration of Settle’s ancestors in will have a gift for you in her grotto on these weekly interactive tours throughout Activity Special Event the train, write a letter to Santa and post December - check the Visit Settle website it on our twinkly trail. £8 per child. or the Settle Graveyard Project Facebook Experience Day Booking essential. page for dates, times and weekly themes. 01969 666210 There are plan B arrangements if it rains! [email protected] All monies go to support local charities. [email protected] www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk Adult £3, child £2. www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk 01729 268235 Saturday 27 November [email protected] Saturday 11 December Mother Christmas Orton Farmers’ Market 10:00 to 12.30/13:30 to 16:00 Friday 10 December 09:30 to 14:00 Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, Late Night Christmas Shopping Orton Market Hall CA10 3RU Hawes DL8 3NT 16:00 to 20:30 Over 25 local farmers, growers, producers Come and meet Mother Christmas who Dales Countryside Museum, Station Yard, and artisan craftsmen offering a will have a gift for you in her grotto on Hawes DL8 3NT tremendous variety of high quality and the train, write a letter to Santa and post Come and join us for a late night speciality local produce and crafts. Themed it on our twinkly trail. £8 per child. Christmas shopping event. Our shop markets each month. A great day out for Booking essential. features Distinctly Dales products created all the family. Plenty to do in the 01969 666210 by local artists and producers which would surrounding area. [email protected] make excellent Christmas gifts. Includes 07969 335598 www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk free entry to the Museum. [email protected] 01969 666210 www.ortonfarmers.co.uk

There are so many opportunities for young nature detectives to feed their imagination in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Fun Fridays at the Dales Countryside Museum brings the outdoors and crafting together in one fun package.

42 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk Kirkby Lonsdale & the Lune Valley

With buildings dating back hundreds of years clustered around narrow cobbled streets and a market square, Kirkby Lonsdale is an historic town with lots to Kirkby Lonsdale Brewery interest visitors. raises hundreds of pounds each The spectacular span of Devil’s Bridge has year to support the Pennine Way a riverside picnic area and famous snack through sales of its official beer - the wagon. A well-known viewpoint over the popular amber ale Pennine Ambler. River Lune, Ruskin’s View, was painted by Find it at many pubs along the the renowned eighteenth century Devil’s Bridge at Kirkby Lonsdale national trail - which enters the landscape artist J M W Turner. National Park at Gargrave and exits at the famous Tan Hill Inn - and of The original strong room in the old bank Intersecting these fells is the peaceful course at the Royal Barn Brewery (now visitor centre) on the main street has valley of Barbondale. Visit The pub in Kirkby Lonsdale. become The Vault, a fascinating story Churchmouse café and village store in the bank. Safety deposit boxes hold films village of Barbon for tempting delights and about fascinating characters and stories speciality cheeses. from the area’s past and present - a great Heading north, the Lune gorge forms a which span the valley. Once a bustling way to start your visit. natural pass between the Howgills and the railway junction town, Tebay is now a Lake District fells. Used by travellers for The wild and exposed fells of Middleton, convenient stopping point, making it a thousands of years, it is part of the long Barbon, Leck and Casterton further up the good base for walkers and cyclists. valley hide a secret. The longest cave distance trail, the Dales Way. system in Britain, The Three Counties, You can still see evidence of the old More information can be found at i stretches 89km under Yorkshire, railway line which once linked Clapham to www.kirkbylonsdale.co.uk and Cumbria. Tebay in a number of dramatic viaducts

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Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 43 A Dales for all seasons

Yorkshire Dales National Park has a mood for every time of year. Whether visiting in spring, summer, autumn or winter, there is always something wonderful to discover and do. Between March and July it is important to keep dogs on leads - but, if you feel Farmers are glad to see threatened by cattle, SPRING the green flush of new let your dog go. grass on the Dales’ As the days lengthen and the temperature limestone pasture as it rises, the first flowers begin to bloom in means they no longer have to earnest. Listen out for the drowsy buzzing supplement their animals’ feed. of bumblebees - the lucky queens that survived the winter are the first to take April showers swell the rivers that advantage. have helped shape the Dales over the centuries, causing them to The National Park turns into a nursery at thunder over the National Park’s this time of year. Spring lambs (known as spectacular waterfalls. Experience the hoggs until their first shearing at around drama at Hardraw Force - the longest 14 months) are found in lower fields, and single drop waterfall in England. cows, which overwintered in barns, are turned out to share the fields with ground The unpolluted waters are also great for nesting birds. There’s nothing that says spotting wildlife, not only fish, but birds spring has arrived more than the haunting like dipper and kingfisher. Take the time to bubbling cry of the returning curlew as it stop, look and listen quietly. Bee on thistle (Yorkshire Dales looks for a mate. If you go down to the woods in late Remember, Millennium Trust) spring you’ll be in for a big treat. A carpet always stick to of bluebells could welcome you on the paths and walk single Follow our Wildlife footpaths through wonderful woodland file. Haymeadows are Conservation Team on like Grass Wood in Grassington or Strid beautiful but fragile, Twitter @WildlifeDales Wood near Bolton Abbey, alongside the and, to a farmer, mean to hear more about pungent smell of wild garlic. Woodlands winter food for nature in the Dales as are also the best place to hear the dawn their stock. it happens. chorus - and if you’re very lucky you might just glimpse a roe deer. SUMMER Upland hay meadows come alive with wildflowers, insects and small mammals like field voles. Look out for stoats hunting along the line of a drystone wall. Swaledale has some of the finest meadows. Imagine what it was like during the hot, hard work of haymaking later in the summer and how welcome the ‘drinkings’ were - food and drink brought out and shared. Look skyward in July and you may spot the fastest animal in the world - the peregrine falcon. For over 20 years breeding pairs have nested at Malham Cove and raised their young. Hardraw Force in Wensleydale

44 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk As evening draws in, keep an eye overhead, too, for bats chasing moths for their supper. Traditional agricultural shows have long been at the heart of local communities in the Yorkshire Dales. Many can trace their origins back over a century and have their own distinct traditions. With activities such as fell racing, livestock classes and sheepdog trials, the day has always been a chance for isolated farming families to get together and for visitors to have a great family day out. The shows also offer a welcome break from haymaking, an important summer task for farmers as they think ahead to feeding their animals through winter.

Autumn is a good time of year to try red squirrel spotting as they dash Red squirrel at Snaizeholme (Steve Bell) about gathering winter supplies. Take our self-guided trail round the special viewing point at AUTUMN Snaizeholme reserve - see www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/ September is a fine month for walking, red-squirrel-trail or ask horse riding and mountain biking. Mild at Hawes National Park weather, fewer visitors and moorlands Visitor Centre. bursting with heather at the start of the month make it a perfect time to explore the many bridleways in the National Park. Curlew Evening light and striking sunsets provide great photo opportunities. The moors are clothed in purple as the heather and ling come into flower. Climb a hill on a crisp clear day and admire the view. You’ll share the countryside with farmers who work long into the night harvesting their second cut of silage. Repairs to the famous drystone walls of the Yorkshire Dales are also underway. The skies come alive as the nights draw in. The lack of light pollution makes the National Park a stunning place for stargazing. On a cloudless night turn off your torch and just stand and stare (read more about our dark skies on pages 22-24). Around now dormice go into hibernation. Along with hedgehogs and bats they are one of only three British mammals to do so. It’s also a great time to stock up on autumnal fare at farmers markets - wild mushrooms, game and preserves could be on offer.

Muker hay meadow in Swaledale Farmers put the sheep bought at auction underground it is a constant surface in October to work as tupping (mating) average year-round. The National Park has begins. The hundred-year-old Hawes some of the finest and most extensive Auction Mart is the only livestock limestone caves - known as karst - in market inside the National Park and Britain, and three showcaves to visit - a visit on sales day is a real White Scar Cave, Stump Cross Caverns experience. and Ingleborough Cave. Winter brings frost and snow. A thin ground covering can highlight archeological WINTER features: ancient field systems, outlines of Escape the Christmas traffic and head deserted settlements, and the bumps of to the country! Jump aboard and take Bronze Age burial cairns. one of the world’s best train journeys Look out too for otter tracks in the snow along the historic Settle-Carlisle line, along riverbanks. This shy animal is travelling through the Three Peaks, over making a strong return in the Dales, but Ribblehead Viaduct, and past the highest they are usually only out and about at Otter mainline station in England at Dent. night. Finding a set of footprints is almost (Whitfield Benson) Meanwhile, work very much continues in as thrilling as seeing the animal as it the National Park. Hedgelaying is always means it is thriving. carried out in the winter months whilst Visiting industrial heritage VIDEO ‘the sap is down’ and tree planting begins Welcome to the Yorkshire Dales sites like towering Ribblehead as they are less likely to get damaged in National Park, won’t you come on in! Viaduct and remote Old Gang the dormant winter months. Rangers hurry smelt mill in Swaledale helps you to finish path repairs before the worst of Join us for a year in the life of the appreciate the hardship faced by the winter weather sets in. magnificent Yorkshire Dales on film. workers in these isolated places. Wonderful waterfalls, snow-covered Uncover the historic environment New Year, and above ground the hills, underground caverns, sun- of the National Park at temperature may dip to its lowest, but dappled meadows... we have it all. www.outofoblivion.org.uk www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/a-year-in

Sheep in winter (Stephen Garnett)

46 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk Hear the characterful voices, rich accents and memories of more than What’s in a word… two dozen people from Wensleydale, Swaledale and Arkengarthdale in a new Do you know a cake stool from a cratch, podcast series published by the a smout-hole from a stoup? Dales Countryside In Your Words - a project led by Museum, drawing University of Leeds - is updating the on its oral history most comprehensive survey of English archives. dialects ever undertaken, and is Well-known local inviting people right across the people such as country to get involved and share farmer John their own. Waggett, preacher Researchers are looking for Rowland Dent and descendants of those who took school teacher Sally part in the original Survey of Stone feature in English Dialects, which ran from Voices From The 1946-1978, or with connections Dales - which is Wallop Nine Pins (LAVC/PHO/P1740) by Werner Kissling. funded by Museum to the Institute of Dialect and Reproduced with the permission of Special Collections, Folk Life Studies, which was in Leeds University Library under CC-BY-NC 4.0. Development Yorkshire operation between 1963 and - alongside late great 1983. personalities such as Kit Calvert, Mary Burrow, Villages across the Yorkshire Dales were Much of the Yorkshire dialect has its and Marie Hartley - author and involved in the original survey, and the roots in Old English or Old Norse, and founder of the Museum. Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes is words can vary hugely from one valley one of five partner museums working or dale - or even village - to the next. Five 15-minute episodes bring stories alongside the university. from Dales schools and chapels, as well In the 1950s, a fieldworker for the as the creation of the Museum itself, Three of the original fieldworkers who Survey of English Dialects, Peter with tales of snow, clogs, and a travelled the country in the 1950s have Wright, recorded that people in Askrigg cockerel down a chimney. already been tracked down. These in Wensleydale described the weather pioneers painstakingly recorded dialect as snizy (raw, cold), rawk (fine rain Many of those featured are held in variations, initially in handwritten accompanied by mist) and pash (a great affection by local people. Hear notebooks, later with cumbersome reel-to- sudden heavy fall of rain). When it got Jennie Sunter describe the walk to reel audio recorders that were sometimes hask (dry and piercingly cold) you’d be school in the hard winter of 1947, or hooked up to car batteries because of a questioning why you’d only worn your the late Richard Dinsdale speak about lack of mains electricity. kittel (lightweight men’s jacket). answering an altar call in the 1950s. Others to come forward include those Any road (anyway), we hope this In one episode, the late Jack Fawcett who remember Werner Kissling, the doesn’t leave you flummoxed (puzzled) reads ‘The Quarryman’s Cross’ and famous ethnographic photographer who and feeling too much like a sugar head ‘T’Auction Mart’, works by John worked for the project in the Yorkshire (fool). Best to fettle (prepare food) Thwaite (1873-1941), a Wensleydale Dales during the 1960s, capturing some collops (rashers of bacon) and dialect poet who wrote about the everything from sheep washing and enjoy a tasty Yorkshire meal til you’re natural beauty as well as the ordinary wallops, to luck stones and Bartle burning. clammed (full). working class people around him. Follow the project - which is funded by Hopefully, even if an offcomer (not the National Lottery Heritage Fund - and born in the district) you have now Search Voices from the Dales headphones find out how to take part via Facebook become hoofed (settled in) by this on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and @DialectHeritage short dialect lesson, and definitely Buzzsprout or visit haven’t had a time like a toad under a www.dalescountrysidemuseum. harrow as this would be a terrible time org.uk indeed - a harrow was a timber frame with iron teeth inserted for ploughing!

Dales Countryside Museum founder Marie Hartley (left) and her writing partner Joan Ingilby working on their well-known book ‘Life & Tradition in the Yorkshire Dales’ (1968), which features many objects in the Museum collection. Marie can be heard on the new ‘Voices From The Dales’ podcasts.

Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 47 Kirkby Stephen & the Westmorland Dales

The Howgills and northern Pennines are a god, are known of in Europe. two magnificent stone viaducts at stunning backdrop to some quite wonderful Merrygill and Podgill, which has been dominates the skyline of the walking, cycling and horseriding country, transformed into a wheelchair accessible remote Mallerstang valley. Here you will with both easy going valley routes and walking and cycle path by the Northern find the atmospheric ruins of Pendragon more challenging climbs to take on. Viaducts Trust. Castle with its reputed connection to The Coast to Coast and Lady Anne’s Way Uther Pendragon - the father of King There is also the dramatic and wheelchair long distance trails converge here and Arthur. Nearby Lammerside features a Pele accessible Smardale Gill walk, created from Stone Trail Holidays offer bike hire and Tower - a defensive building against another former section of line and crossing horse riding from their base right on the Scottish raiders. the spectacular 14 arch viaduct over Pennine Bridleway National Trail. Scandal Beck. Rail enthusiasts have High on the fells of Great Asby Scar, with developed a heritage attraction and Kirkby Stephen is a vibrant market town, its huge expanse of limestone pavement operational railway on the same stretch at with individual shops, galleries, and the and fantastic views to the Lake District Kirkby Stephen East station. Upper Eden Visitor Centre for all the and North Pennines, is an old fortified information you need for a visit. settlement, Castle Folds. You can also take a trip on the famous Settle-Carlisle railway along the Eden The parish church features a Loki Stone, The Northern Viaducts Trail takes in part Valley all the way to Carlisle. which probably came across with the of the old Stainmore Railway, built to bring Vikings who settled in the area. Only two coal from the Tees Valley over to Cumbria The lovely village of Orton has a great such carved stones, named after the Norse for use in making iron. The Trail crosses village shop, pub, café and Kennedy’s Chocolate Shop, plus a regular farmers market. In Ravenstonedale there are two great pubs serving up superb meals - the Black Swan and Kings Head - as well as the nearby Fat Lamb Inn. There are many other delightful villages here to explore, including the charmingly named Maulds Meaburn, Great Asby and Crosby Garrett.

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48 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk Experience the Dales

There are experiences to entertain everyone and keep the whole family occupied and happy during your stay in the Yorkshire Dales Tantalise your taste buds with the delectable flavours of local food and drink. Learn about Dales history and heritage by visiting historical landmarks. Rejuvenate on relaxing walks over meadows and moors and experience the wildlife that comes with it. Marvel at the night sky by venturing outside after dark or take part in one of our magical Dark Skies Festival events. There are loads of things Relax in the wild to discover and do, whatever your pace, at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/experiences Let Semerwater Alpaca Ambles take you truly back to nature. Explore the Thrills and spills Brew’s up beauty and stunning views of Raydale in Wensleydale accompanied by a new Yorkshire Dales Guides can offer almost Long the home of great beer, Yorkshire woolly companion. any adventure you might want to try. has ale-lovers covered. Whether it’s caving, climbing and Local to the National Park are abseiling, navigation skills, guided walks Wensleydale Brewery in Leyburn, Kirkby or fell running, they will provide all the Lonsdale Brewery and Yorkshire Dales guidance and support you need. Brewery in Askrigg - do call in to sample Both Muddy Boots Walking Holidays Rob and Anne’s tempting tipples. and where2walk offer organised guided If artisan gin is your thing, you’re in for walks to help you see more and get the a treat with locally-made delights from most out of your stay. Yorkshire Dales Distillery, Masons and Alfresco Adventures is your ticket to Whitakers, Otterbeck Distillery, and any adventure, great or small. If you’ve Wensleydale’s very own Taplin & ever fancied climbing up a rock face or Mageean, to name just a few. kayaking through white water, but If you would like to try your hand at didn’t know how to go about it, they making your own gin, drop into the can make it possible for beginners who Gin Experience at the Spirit of Masham want to try something new as well as Distillery. experts who wish to hone their skills.

Tempt your taste buds If you want to truly experience Yorkshire cuisine, book into Humble Pie Cookery Kitchen. Courses can be tailor-made to your requirements and celebrate the finest Something new ingredients produced within the dale. Do something that you have never Cheese-making courses are done before. The Malham Smithy is a in abundance in the unique opportunity to have a go at Yorkshire Dales. The blacksmithing, learn key basic Courtyard Dairy, near techniques and forge your own Settle, includes a cheese personal work of art. museum and offers And there is no better way to fantastic workshops understand the Yorkshire Dales farming throughout the year. There life, than to actually have some truly is then the Wensleydale hands-on experience. Be a farmer for Creamery in Hawes, with the day with The Wensleydale its visitor centre offering Experience on the Swinithwaite Estate. daily demos, and Lacey’s, Learn about the traditional skill of providing a full day of drystone walling, animal husbandry, cheese-making delights. and the importance of farming for the area.

Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 49 The National Park’s two far northern dales, with their classic Swaledale & farming landscape of field barns and drystone walls, are the perfect spot to retreat from the hubbub of modern life. Arkengarthdale The little village of Keld at the head of Swaledale is a crossing point for three long-distance walks: the Pennine Way, the Coast to Coast, and the Herriot Way. It’s also at one end of the Swale Trail - a 20km (12mile) route for mountain bikes starting from Reeth, and a great way to experience Upper Swaledale and test your off-road cycling skills. Bring your own bikes, or hire them from Dales Bike Centre in Reeth. The Keld Countryside & Heritage Centre brings local history to life, and in the winter months the village operates a self-service tearoom for walkers with an honesty box and a magical supply of homemade cakes. The River Swale flows along the valley and is lined with stone- built villages, such as Muker with its well-known wool shop, and Gunnerside, which has both the Kings Head pub and the Farmer’s Arms, with new owners and exciting new beer. Look out for the hardy Swaledale sheep on the moor tops - it’s the emblem for the National Park. In the valley bottoms, the stunning wildflower haymeadows are at their best in early summer. Throughout the area, you’ll come across the scattered remains of former industry, such as Old Gang Lead Looking for a greener Mine and Grinton Smelt Mill. way to get around? The Find out about the harsh life community-run Little White Bus of a miner at Swaledale runs throughout Wensleydale and Museum in Reeth. Swaledale, connecting market towns and villages including Reeth The busy village of Reeth, to Askrigg, Leyburn to Richmond, with its large village green, and Keld to Reeth. For routes has shops showcasing local and timetables, visit arts and crafts, while www.littlewhitebus.co.uk Richmond’s impressive Norman castle - 950 years old this year - dominates this market town’s skyline. The field barns and drystone walls landscape of Swaledale

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50 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk The Buttertubs Pass was a famous climb round. The inn is also a Dark Sky on the Tour de France Grand Depart in Discovery Site, designated as a great spot 2014, and the dales are home to the for stargazing. annual Swaledale Festival of arts and Reeth offers pubs and tearooms, a bakery, culture. and an ice-cream parlour serving local Have a drink at the recently refurbished Brymor Ice-cream. Or you could treat Tan Hill Inn - the highest pub in Great yourself to a delicious evening meal at the Britain - which has live music all year CB Inn in remote Arkengarthdale.

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Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 51 In April 1066 Halley’s Comet appeared in Celebrate the skies above Hindrelac, a small settlement predating Richmond in North Yorkshire, the precise location of which is Richmond unknown. The comet was seen as a portent of disaster. Later that year, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, Harold, was 950 killed and the victor, William Duke of Normandy, came to power. People in the north rebelled against the new order and in 1069 William ordered villages from York to the River Tees to be destroyed. Animals and crops were burned, and many people were killed or starved to death, greatly reducing the To find out about Celebrate i population. Richmond 950, and the town’s many attractions, visit Earl Alan Rufus, who had commanded the www.richmond950.co.uk Breton contingent of the Norman army, was granted land, and in 1071 he commissioned the building of his castle in the town now known as Richmond. Over the centuries the market town grew up and prospered around its castle, which sits high above the fast-flowing River Swale. And 2021 marks Richmond Castle’s • Excellent Facilities 950th birthday. • Remote Location • Dogs Welcome The town’s special celebrations include a • Fantastic views community archaeology project allowing Set in the famous Yorkshire Dales, this the public to get hands on with history, an campsite is located just outside the exhibition showing 950 years of picturesque village of Muker in Swaledale. Richmond’s communications, Conquest Ideal for cycling fans, walkers & families. Living History in Richmond Castle, A family run site in a spectacular location. Tranquil, clean and peaceful. outdoor cinema, Victorian events at The Station, with plans for much more as the www.ushagap.co.uk year goes on. Usha Gap Campsite, Muker, Richmond, North Yorkshire DL11 6DW Email: [email protected] Tel: 01748 886110

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52 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk Celebrate Richmond 950 in 2021 So Much to Offer, So Easy to Visit Richmond offers a range of accommodation to suit all tastes and a wealth of dining experiences to enjoy Explore individually owned and run shops, indoor Victorian Marking the building of Market, Saturday markets, annual Christmas market, Richmond’s Norman castle theatre, cinema, three museums and lovely walks and the birth and growth of Plus celebrate Richmond 950 events throughout the year… one of Yorkshire’s favourite Talks - Concerts - Markets - Walks - Exhibitions - Archaeology - 950 Trees market towns - Brewing - Cricket - Eating - Theatre - Museums - Swimming - Gardens - Workshops - Golf… See the full programme online www.richmond950.co.uk | 01748 826468 Sleeping, Eating, Shopping |email: [email protected] 950 Events |email: [email protected]

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Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 53 Wharfedale

Visit www.buckden.org, i www.kettlewellvillage.co.uk or www.grassington.uk.com for more Given its steep hills, great views and rocky information. Burnsall bridge (Stephen Garnett) crags, it’s no surprise that Wharfedale is popular with walkers. Popular routes include the Dales Way Discover Kilnsey, near Grassington, to find a along the River Wharfe, Grass Woods, and perfect base in the heart of Wharfedale for hiking, the fascinating leadmining remains on cycling, horse riding, climbing and fishing. Grassington Moor, brought to life by a series of interpretation panels. Grassington is the main town, with shops, cafés and a regular farmers market. Burnsall, with its five-arched bridge is a popular picnic spot, and Kettlewell holds an annual Scarecrow Festival, alongside offering plenty of food and drink options. Eat, Sleep & Discover The Dales Whatever the weather, the natural show www.thetennantsarms.co.uk cave of Stump Cross Caverns, with its Tel: 01756 753946 Email: [email protected] recently refurbished Time Café and private The Tennants Arms Hotel, Mastiles Lane, Kilnsey, Skipton BD23 5PS cinema, is the ideal spot to take in the views and enjoy some fantastic local food and themed events throughout the year. At Kilnsey Park Estate you can say hello to the alpacas and the red squirrels that are ASHFIELD HOUSE part of a breeding programme, catch a fish The perfect base to explore the delights of the Yorkshire Dales in the angling lake, go on the nature trail, and enjoy a drink in the café. There’s pony trekking at nearby Conistone, or you could just marvel at the height of Kilnsey Crag and the climbers trying to scale it. Self-contained Holiday Apartment Find out the story of the land-letting nestled in the heart of Nidderdale and candle at The George in Hubberholme or surrounded by natural, stunning views. visit the stunning cruck barn at the Craven Only 5 mins walk to town centre Arms in . And don’t miss the pubs, restaurants and shops. Many visitor attractions close by. tranquil valley of Littondale with its Sleeps 2-4. famous pubs - the Falcon at Arncliffe and Wi-Fi included. the Queens Arms at Litton. Private terrace with garden furniture and BBQ. The peaceful gardens of Parcevall Hall are Ashfield House, Pateley Bridge HG3 5JH | Tel: 01423 711491 well worth a visit, as are the accessible [email protected] | www.yorkshiredalesholidaycottage.co.uk paths around .

54 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk Parcevall Hall Gardens are the only large Underground gardens open to the public in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Situated at the head of Overground a valley, the twenty-four acres of formal and woodland gardens rise up the hillside and The Cave Rescue Organisation - believed command impressive views of Simon’s Seat to be the oldest in the world and based and Wharfedale. right here in the Yorkshire Dales - was formed after an incident at Gingling Hole in 1934.

Today, the five Yorkshire and Cumbria- Just off the B6265 at , BD23 69E based rescue teams that cover the Visit our website for opening times National Park are still made up of highly trained volunteers who give their time www.parcevallhallgardens.co.uk • 01756 720311 freely 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, to provide a safety net for anyone off the beaten track, above or below ground. In an emergency, would you know how to EVENING BISTRO get help? www.retreatgrassington.co.uk • Informal Dining in a Friendly Relaxed Setting 1. Call 999 • Comprehensive Wine List & Local Ales • Varied Selection of GF & DF 2. Ask for ‘Police’ and say which • Vegetarian Diets Catered For county you are in • Reservations Advisable 3. Ask the Police for ‘cave’ or ‘fell’ Friday & Saturday 6.30 - 8.45 rescue Main Street, 4. Say where you are and give a Grassington description and grid reference 5. Describe the problem and answer 01756 any other questions 751887 6. Stay by a phone or where you can maintain a signal on your mobile, keeping the line clear so you can be called back. The rescue team will call other services as required.

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Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 55 Get out there!

With over 2,600km of glorious footpaths, two National Trails and the longest cave system in Britain, the Yorkshire Dales is a great place to get outdoors. From stunning moorland tops to hazy wildflower meadows, there are opportunities for everyone to stop and breathe deeply, indulge in a relaxing riverside picnic or take a stroll. You don’t have to be an adrenaline junkie to enjoy what the National Park has to offer - though there are plenty of opportunities for you, too. Take a step in the right direction Whether you’re an adventurer or a relaxing-day-outer, for when it’s raining If walks are what you’re after, then you’ve come to the right place. and when it shines - and for everything in The National Park is criss-crossed with some superb long distance trails. Try the between - head to our website at Coast to Coast, Lady Anne’s Way or Dales Way, as well as the Pennine Way and www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/get-outdoors Pennine Bridleway National Trails. to find out all this beautiful area has to offer. And what about Yorkshire’s famous Three Peaks - Pen-y-ghent, Ingleborough and Whernside - each one its own character to be enjoyed individually, or as the ultimate walking challenge. Whether you want to tick off some high hilltops or go for a valley hike, whether you’ve come for spring flowers, summer meadows, autumn colours or winter wonderland peaks, the National Park has it all. Discover old lead mining remains and waterfalls, and see if you can spot our local wildlife along the way. Join a guided walk with knowledgeable local leaders or strike out on your own. Our Information Advisors can suggest some known and lesser known trails and there are plenty of fantastic books and maps to buy from our National Park Visitor Centres. If your group includes a wheelchair user or a buggy, have a look at the Access for All section of our website and choose from our ‘Miles without Stiles’ routes. For more ideas and downloadable walks, go to www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/walking

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56 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk Pedal power Saddle up It’s great to explore the Yorkshire Dales If you are a horserider, we have a by bike. You can see more and feel network of over 900km of bridleways more in touch with the countryside. you can use - a fantastic mixture of Roman roads, monastic highways, There are a network of minor roads and mining tracks and ancient drovers mountain bike-friendly byways, routes. bridleways and ‘green lanes’ that cross the area - some of which are relatively Connect them into circuits of varying flat! But any effort to climb a hill is length by including short rides along always rewarded with a fabulous view. quiet country roads, or let your horse stretch its legs and enjoy an The Swale Trail is a 20km (12 mile) easy exhilarating canter through miles of mountain bike route along the length of open moorland. Swaledale from Reeth to Keld. You can complete the trail in a number of Find approved trekking centres, as well sections, with Gunnerside providing a as guidance on planning your own good break in the middle with its pub, route, at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/ cafés and toilets. horse-riding We’ve a huge range of routes for road cyclists from family-friendly short valley bottom trails to the infamous Buttertubs Going underground Pass and the challenging 210km (130 One of the very special features of the mile) Yorkshire Dales Cycle Way. Yorkshire Dales is its limestone scenery Our dedicated website - and that means crags, sinkholes, dry www.cyclethedales.org.uk will tell you valleys and caves. The National Park more, however you like to pedal. Star of wonder boasts the longest cave system in When the sun goes down, the stars Britain. The Three Counties is thought We are your ticket to the great outdoors for fun and come out. Free from light pollution, to stretch around 89km under adventure. We offer walking holidays, hill skills, challenge the experience of being able to see Yorkshire, Lancashire and Cumbria. walks, walking weekends and guided walking in the Lake District, Yorkshire Dales and beyond. the myriad of stars in the National Read more about how to get started The adventure is yours. Park is truly special. with your underground adventure Pick up our Dark Skies leaflet from on the next page and visit National Park Visitor Centres and read www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/caving

Contact Mark Killala 07957972800 more about how to become a Dales [email protected] stargazer on pages 22-24. www.northernguiding.co.uk

DRY STONE WALLING

COURSE GIFT The Yorkshire Dry Stone Walling VOUCHERS AVAILABLE Guild runs 2 day (mainly weekend) non-residential courses at venues in North and . The courses are taught by the Guild’s approved instructors. All details of the courses etc. can be found on the Guild’s website: THE GREAT OUTDOORS HAS NEVER BEEN MORE POPULAR www.ydswg.co.uk If you wish to discuss any aspect of a particular Abseiling course please contact Graham Brown Caving (Course Co-ordinator) on 01943 863291 Rock Climbing or email: [email protected] Hiking Navigation Orienteering Trail/Fell Running Winter Skills Yorkshire 3 Peaks

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Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 57 Going underground

Looking up in the Crackpot Cave river passage at The stunning caves of the Yorkshire Dales, Gill can be visited in May and August via a stalactites and calcite curtains (Gary Douthwaite) like many natural environments, need 100m winched descent, courtesy of two care to ensure they are around for future local clubs. For those getting more - as well as important archaeological generations. Matt Ewles from the Council seriously involved in caving, the National remains in the higher parts of cave of Northern Caving Clubs tells us more. Park offers hundreds of kilometres of systems - can be upset by seemingly underground systems to explore. inconsequential actions. The Yorkshire Dales is home to some of the finest caves in the UK, carved out of Being carved in solid limestone, one might As cavers, we are acutely aware of our the by water over expect a robust environment, but in fact, impact on the natural world. An education hundreds of thousands of years. our caves are often much more intricate programme has been ongoing within the and delicate. Calcite formations, including caving community for over half a century. The area’s show caves - White Scar, Stump stalactites and stalagmites, can be Our organisation, driven by passionate Cross and Ingleborough - offer a glimpse muddied or damaged by an ill-placed volunteers, is working hard to deliver of these hidden worlds for thousands of hand. Sediments deposited over thousands hands-on cave conservation to reduce and curious non-cavers every year. For the of years can be easily disturbed, and the restore the impact visitors have on caves, more adventurous, the magnificent Gaping delicate balance which sustains cave fauna but without restricting their accessibility. Caving can become a lifelong passion for many, but even the most experienced caver will fondly recall their first ever underground trip where their adventures NEWBY began. THE HALL & GARDENS winner We are lucky in the Dales to have many PERFECT garden FAMILY of the year caves which are accessible for beginners DAY OUT and which offer a splendid ‘taster’ for what caving has to offer. One such popular site is found in the remote hills of Swaledale. Crackpot Cave shows off the real joys of caving. Here you can experience the water echoing through the passage, ceilings bearing calcite formations which twinkle in torchlight, and the excitement of seeing what awaits in the darkness around the next corner. ©Charlotte Graham Photography Over the decades, Crackpot’s delicate Ripon, North Yorkshire www.newbyhall.com 01423 322583 formations, so integral to its natural

58 | Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk beauty, have suffered the inevitable a chamber where thousands of stalactites almost to its original glory. We even had consequence of many visitors. In 2019, a adorn the roof and calcite covers the walls. time to make a video of the operation - team of cavers reported that they were Its once clean floor was muddied by search for ‘Crackpot Cave Clean-up’ on saddened to find many of the formations decades of passing wellies. You Tube. We really hope that this covered in mud and handprints. stunning cave continues to inspire many Using water sprayers and soft brushes the people over the decades to come. Our Conservation Officer quickly team were able to wash much of the mud assembled a team of volunteers. Work on from the formations. After two further We urge visitors to caves to avoid the first day focussed on The Turnip Field, sessions, Crackpot Cave was restored touching the formations, leave no litter, always come properly equipped, and not to enter in very wet conditions when the water level could be high. For many people, the safest and simplest way to try caving for the first time will be as part of an instructed trip, outdoor group or club. Lots more information on starting your underground adventure can be found at www.newtocaving.com and www.cncc.org.uk

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Step through the famous red front door and immerse Home of the original yourself in the fully restored 1940s real Skeldale House, a perfect time capsule of the home and surgery of the world’s most famous vet, Alfred Wight (James Herriot), where he wrote his successful series of books, based on his experiences as a young, working North Yorkshire vet.

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Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 59 to tour their premises and try their range If you feel some exercise is in order after Wensleydale of jams, chutneys and sauces, while sampling these delights, visit Stage 1 Humble Pie Cookery Kitchen champions Cycles - based at the Dales Countryside classic farmhouse baking and cookery Museum - for bike hire and advice on the Wensleydale has a long history of dairying, courses celebrating local produce. best places to go. Or jump on the Little so it’s no wonder that it’s home to the White Bus to Snaizeholme Red Squirrel Wensleydale Creamery, source of the world Further along the dale at , Trail and see these native creatures making famous Wensleydale Cheese so beloved by the Harrison farming family - who were a comeback in their natural habitat. Wallace and Gromit! the first farmer to introduce Jersey cows to the dale - have diversified into creating If you want to try something a bit Also in Hawes is family-run local business delicious Wensleydale Ice-Cream and different, visit Semerwater Alpaca Ambles, Raydale Preserves, who offer the chance opened their new parlour in a restored barn. and take the animals for a gentle stroll through this spectacular landscape with views of the largest natural lake in the Dales. Meanwhile for the big kid in everyone there are hidden passages and riddles to be solved at the mysterious The Forbidden Corner.

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Visit the Yorkshire Dales National Park online at www.yorkshiredales.org.uk | 61 Wensleydale has spectacular waterfalls, including the three-stepped Aysgarth Falls, Hardraw Force - the highest single-drop waterfall in England, and Cauldron Force at West Burton, made famous by the artist J M W Turner. Jervaulx Abbey, located in a beautiful, wooded setting by the River Ure, has an ‘honesty box’ to help towards its upkeep. And the Edwardian Rock Garden in Aysgarth, commissioned by local landowner Frank Sayer-Graham (1859- 1946), has such a fascinating story that it is now Grade II listed. The lovely village of Askrigg is the perfect base for many walks and has the Yorkshire Dales Brewery and a delicious deli to enjoy. Masham has two famous breweries to visit - Black Sheep and Theakstons, and Leyburn features The Garden Rooms at Tennants, an arts venue and eatery. THE WENSLEYDALE HOTEL & TACK ROOM RESTAURANT

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Lovely single-storey cottage set in owner’s delightful garden in Hunton, a pretty village with a pub and village green. Located in beautiful countryside Contemporary art gallery in a converted chapel at the surrounded by the market towns of Bedale, Richmond heart of Wensleydale. and Leyburn. Comfortable and well equipped with Local Artists & Crafters • Tea, Coffee & Cakes two en-suite bedrooms and dedicated parking space. Online Shop Chapel Gallery, Road, Hawes, Contact: Maria on 01677 450742 North Yorkshire DL8 3NP Email: [email protected] Tel: 01969 667584 www.chapelgalleryhawes.com a castle full of music! www.medievalmusicinthedales.co.uk Website: www.collingwell.co.uk

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Housed in the former Victorian railway Adult £4.80 station at Hawes, there are fun and Concession £4.30 fascinating things for visitors of all ages to Under 16s FREE see and do. Groups of 10+ £4.30 Get hands on with history with our take- Annual pass £9 home kits. Join us in the traditional farmhouse kitchen to learn about butter Friend of the Museum making. Climb aboard the train carriages annual subscription and get crafty in the Creation Station (free entry and monthly lectures) £10 (national Covid-19 guidance permitting). Opening Explore our outdoor trail, take a peek in Daily 10am to 5pm Feb to Oct, the bughouse, and invent your own tales 10am to 4pm Nov to Dec (closed in the storytelling chair. Christmas Eve to Boxing Day). Browse our shop for ‘Distinctly Dales’ Open weekends only 10am to 4pm products created by local artists and Jan. Last entry one hour before Share special times with your makers. And, if you have Dales closing time. friends and family … connections, dip into your family history in our Research Room - expert help is on How to find us hand on Mondays and Wednesdays. Get creative … indoors & Dales Countryside Museum, outside … on your doorstep … Children visit FREE and, with our annual Station Yard, Burtersett Road, pass for adults, families can make the most Hawes, North Yorkshire, DL8 3NT Discover the incredible story of the of our drop-in holiday activities. Yorkshire Dales landscape - and the people who shaped it - with a visit to the Dales 01969 666210 Countryside Museum. [email protected] www.dalescountrysidemuseum.org.uk

 @dalesmuseum 2021 Highlights facebook-f dalesmuseum  Join Hester Cox for printmaking workshops inspired by our vintage woodblock collection Dales Countryside Museum hopes to  Hear about the Dales through the bring you over 40 brilliant events in voices of those who lived and 2021 with loads created just for kids worked here and brand new art online workshops  Watch out for In Your Words via Zoom and Instagram. Browse the events and activities on site and ‘What’s On’ calendar starting on page online. Share your dialect and 25 or visit our website. family words and discover some unusual words from the Dales! EXHIBITION PROGRAMME 2021

17 May to 18 July 23 July to 26 September 2 October 2021 to March 27 2022 Story of Schools Run the Dales Love tokens, sittings and Delve into the development of Upper With over 200 years of history behind it, song: knitting sticks from Dales schools and hear stories from those fell running is one of the Yorkshire Dales’ the John Dixon Collection who attended them from the 1930s original sports, no doubt inspired by its Although created for a very practical onwards. See the giant photo mosaic awesome fells. A ‘race up and down a purpose, knitting sticks were often created by digital artist, Helen Marshall of nearby hillside’ has been a pursuit passed treasured possessions, being given as love The People’s Picture, celebrating the down through the centuries. This tokens carved for mothers and dynamic youth of the Dales - past and exhibition lifts the lid on fell running sweethearts. This stunning exhibition present. Funded by The National Lottery heritage and the contemporary running shares the background to this special form Heritage Fund and its players, and the scene. Its stars, pioneers and iconic races of folk art and features over 350 knitting YDNPA Sustainable Development Fund. feature through brand new imagery by sticks, each unique in design. award winning photographer, Stephen Garnett.

Hawes National Park Visitor Centre is based at the Museum. Ring or call in to find out all you need to know to plan your visit to the Yorkshire Dales.

Did you know..? Our very special gold Viking ring was Good to know discovered by a farmer digging a drainage ditch • Free WiFi near Sedbergh in 2008! • Pushchair and wheelchair friendly • Accessible by public transport. • Electric car charging point • Coach friendly - large group on-site catering and special ‘Experience Days’ can be arranged • Assistance dogs only • £1 discount on admission for one person with car parking ticket

Refuel, recharge and relax at the Firebox Café and make the most of your visit to the Museum and Hawes. The café’s name refers to the firebox on a steam train - it not only fuelled the engine but was also where the crew prepared their bacon and eggs! Run by Stage 1 Cycles, it’s also a bike shop, hire, training and  activity centre. 

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