The Yorkshire Dales

The wildflower-rich hay meadows at Muker are a treat for the senses. I doubt if there is anywhere else in the UK where you will find so many wildflowers in such concentration.

Adrian Braddy, Editor of the Dalesman

Take a train journey: Ride on the Settle to Carlisle, Wensleydale Railway, or Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway and enjoy dramatic scenery that’s often inaccessible by road.

The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust Team

The drive back from Hawes to Grassington via either Oughtershaw or Coverdale - breathtakingly beautiful.

Helen McCartan, Manager, Grassington office

The view from the Buttertubs Pass into Swaledale, the most beautiful of all the Yorkshire Dales, with its patchwork of drystone walls and stone field barns suddenly opening up below you.

Stephanie Millward, Ilkley Cycling Club

Hardraw Force - the highest single drop waterfall in England in a natural amphitheatre where they stage a brass band festival every year.

Stephanie Millward, Ilkley Cycling Club

The Dales are home to some of the most amazing limestone scenery in the world and the best place to enjoy this is Malham Cove, a dramatic relic of the Ice Age. Its limestone pavements are like something from another world.

Adrian Braddy, Editor of the Dalesman.

Bolton Abbey, looking down on the ruins of the abbey, part of which is still in use as a church, set in a bend of the River Wharfe. It must be one of the most beautiful sights in Britain.

Stephanie Millward, Ilkley Cycling Club.

There are around 30 valleys or dales, cut by rivers, each distinctive in character and with their own sense of place. As a whole, the Yorkshire Dales offers a beautiful and varied landscape and rich and diverse wildlife heritage.

The Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust Team.