Now that railway services have been extended to Redmire a wide network of routes becomes available for walkers choosing to arrive by...

High Force always has its admirers but the area upstream too merits exploration, especially on a fine day when the views of the Pennines...

Once described as the prettiest village in Swaledale, Marske lies on the old high main road between Richmond and Reeth before it was...

For walkers Grassington is indisputably the capital of upper Wharfedale. A tight network of paths and tracks developed during its...

In the Middle Ages the Honour of Kirkby Malzeard was a huge administrative area centred on the castle of the Mowbrays. There was an...

At the eastern entrance to Wensleydale picturesque East Witton is at the centre of a network of paths. Planned in the early 19th century by the Earl of Ailesbury, the local landlord, its houses rise in two rows along the village street and face one another across a broad green. No house looks out of place and many still have their side-sliding Yorkshire sash windows. At the eastern edge of the houses and out on the A 6108 towards Masham is the parish church with a huge plaque

Now a most attractive village in the valley of the Hartforth Beck, Gilling West was in Saxon times a place of great importance, being the...

Between the 17th and 19th centuries lead mining dominated Swaledale's economy. Remains of this industrial past are to be seen on any walk...

Wensleydale is a walker's paradise and there's nowhere better to appreciate its charms than by taking the old tracks which run along the...