Author Archives: Michael

Settle to Cleatop

This is a lovely walk from Settle, along green lanes, into an ancient woodland, and visits one of the world’s smallest art galleries. 3. Fantastic views over the River Ribble floodplain, known as the Long Preston Deeps. This area was once a huge lake and is now managed for wildlife – snipe, lapwing, curlew, redshank […]

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Clapham Village to Ingleborough Cave

Clapham village (click here to find out more about the village itself https://www.claphamyorkshire.co.uk/) The Nature Trail The Nature trail was set up by the Ingleborough Estate to commemorate Reginald Farrer a botanist and seed collector. The woods are home to many of the new species of rhododendrons, shrubs and alpine plants that he collected in […]

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Malham Circuit

Malham Cove is a curved crag of carboniferous limestone formed after the last ice age. It once had a waterfall bigger than Niagara Falls. It is 80 metres high and 300 metres wide and last had water flowing over it in the 19th Century, until 2015 when extreme rain caused a waterfall to flow for […]

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Watersinks to Tarn House

Malham Tarn is a glacial lake and at 377 metres it is the highest lake in England, and one of only eight upland alkaline lakes in Europe. Its geology, flora and fauna have led to it being listed under a number of conservation designations. The site is currently owned by the National Trust, who lease […]

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Tarn Moss Boardwalk

Malham Tarn is a glacial lake and at 377 metres it is the highest lake in England, and one of only eight upland alkaline lakes in Europe. Its geology, flora and fauna have led to it being listed under a number of conservation designations. The site is currently owned by the National Trust, who lease […]

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Settle Circular via Victoria Cave and Attermire Scar

Fantastic views of Ribblesdale the valley you are walking in and Ingleborough and Pen-y-ghent, two of Yorkshire’s Three Peaks. Victoria Cave was first excavated in Victorian times. Plenty of animal bones were found including hippos, narrow nosed rhinos, elephants and a spotted hyena, these all date back to a time when the climate was much […]

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Stainforth Circular via Catrigg Force

Stainforth Village itself is situated on a terrace away from the river, on the banks of Stainforth Beck (stream). The seventeenth century packhorse bridge over the main River Ribble (reached over the main road and down to Little Stainforth) shows the village’s former importance as a stopping point on the packhorse route through the dales between […]

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New Website Launch

People and the DALES celebrated the launch of their fantastic new website at a Community Day at Cartwright Hall in Bradford on 18th September. The day brought together some of the groups the project has worked with and offered a chance for sharing stories and experiences of some of the 250 visits that have taken […]

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Malham to Janet’s Foss and Goredale Scar

Wild garlic – The powerful small of wild garlic (ramsons) can be found in Janet’s Wood from late spring onwards. A relative of chives the leaves of this plant have a strong taste and can be used in soups and stews. Janet’s Foss – Foss is the old Norse word for a waterfall or force […]

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Malham village to Malham Cove

Malham village – www.malhamdale.com National Park Centre; Malham Smithy was bequeathed to the Parish Church in the early 1980’s, and has since been leased out by the Church as a traditional blacksmiths workshop. In February 2007, Annabelle Bradley took over the lease and runs it as a traditional blacksmith. Malham Cove is a curved crag of carboniferous […]

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