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...

From a castle that held out for three years to four waterfalls in half a mile, this is the part of the Dales most visitors miss entirely. Most people follow the same route through the...

A well that turns objects to stone. A film inventor who vanished without a trace. A river that kills everyone who falls into it. Yorkshire contains more genuine strangeness than most counties manage in...