Yorkshire Dales

The Yorkshire Dales cover almost 700 square miles of spectacular scenery across North Yorkshire and Cumbria. The Dales make up one of England’s 10 national parks, and it’s a place where people not only like to come and visit but where large numbers of people also live and work.

It’s a landscape which may already be familiar to you from the large and small screen: Calendar Girls; Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves; Emmerdale; and All Creatures Great and Small were all filmed within the national park’s boundaries. Heartbeat, Harry Potter and the Philospher's Stone, Mansfield Park (with Billie Piper) and Last of the Summer Wine were all filmed close by.

Whenever you visit, you’ll be struck by the extraordinary plays of light across fields, villages, farm buildings and our famous dry-stone walls. Just don’t try and count the sheep: they’re officially too numerous!

The Yorkshire Dales are home to a huge range of species, outstanding landscapes and a rich and diverse cultural heritage. There’s something for everyone, whether it’s quaint market towns (and poking about in bookshops before enjoying the perfect cup of tea and a slab of cake) or, if your cup of tea would be something more energetic, there’s everything from walking the clints and grykes to pony-trekking; mountain-biking to climbing; canoeing to canal-cruising—and loads more, besides.

There are (famous) cheese-makers to visit, rivers to gaze at, meadows to picnic in, museums to wander round, and pictureseque pubs to sit and do very little in.

No wonder they call Yorkshire ‘God’s Own Country’.

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