Yorkshire Dales

A six-metre waterfall drops over a curtain of limestone tufa into a pool the colour of pale jade, twenty minutes' walk from Malham village. Local tradition has held for generations that a fairy queen...

A market town 850 feet above sea level has just been named one of the country's most overlooked places, and the reasons go well beyond the cheese. Country Living has just put Hawes, Yorkshire Dales,...

The cobbled square at the centre of Grassington Yorkshire looks almost too composed to be real. Stone flags, Georgian and Victorian frontages, a pub at one end and a museum at the other. In...

In 1907, a newspaper poll declared this the prettiest village in Yorkshire. Nobody has seriously challenged the title since. Thornton-le-Dale Yorkshire is built around a working stream. Thornton Beck runs straight through the middle of...

A six-foot gap in the rock has killed more people than the sheer drop beside it ever could, and it sits a ten-minute walk from the car park. Most visitors to Bolton Abbey walk the...

At 1,732 feet above sea level, on a stretch of open moorland where the road offers no other reason to stop, the Tan Hill Inn has been open since the seventeenth century. It has...

Three of the most dramatic pieces of landscape in England sit within two miles of each other above a small Yorkshire Dales village. Most visitors see one. A good walk covers all three. Malham Cove...

The Aysgarth Falls bothy on the River Ure is one of those rare finds that surprises you from the moment you arrive. Then there is Emma, the host who makes you feel like the...