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The Yorkshire Dales National Park is a 2,178 km 2 (841 sq mi) national park in England which covers most of the Yorkshire Dales, the Howgill Fells, and the Orton Fells. The Nidderdale area of the Yorkshire Dales is not within the national park, and has instead been designated a national landscape .
The majority of the dales are within the Yorkshire Dales National Park, created in 1954. [1] The exception is the area around Nidderdale, which forms the separate Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The landscape of the Yorkshire Dales consists of sheltered glacial valleys separated by exposed moorland. [2]
Wether Fell (archaically Wetherfell), [2] also known as Drumaldrace (the name of its summit), is a mountain in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, in North Yorkshire, England. Wether Fell is mountain that divides Wensleydale in the north and Upper Wharfedale in the south. Its summit is 614 metres (2,014 ft).
The Nidderdale National Landscape is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in North Yorkshire, England, bordering the Yorkshire Dales National Park [1] to the east and south. It comprises most of Nidderdale itself, part of lower Wharfedale , the Washburn valley and part of lower Wensleydale , including Jervaulx Abbey and the side valleys west ...
Grisedale is a south-east facing Dale in Cumbria, but part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. [1] It is between 2–3 miles (3–5 km) long, sandwiched between Baugh Fell to the south-west, Holmes Moss to the west, Swarth Fell Pike to the north, and White Birks Common to the east.
Kingsdale is a short narrow dale, that measures 5.5 miles (8.9 km) from Thornton-in-Lonsdale in the south, to High Moss in the north. [4] During the Last Glacial Maximum, when many of the dales were affected by ice, a glacier carved out the valley of Kingsdale, and left behind a lake impounded at its southern end by a terminal moraine Raven Ray, a piece of land higher than the broad valley ...
The Yorkshire Dales attract a large amount of tourists to its natural wonders and beauty spots, from hikers who take on the crags and woodlands to those seeking a short break in the countryside ...
Teesdale and its side dales, historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and sometimes considered part of the Yorkshire Dales, [2] [3] are in the North Pennines AONB. On 1 August 2016, the area of the National Park was increased by nearly a quarter, with an extra 161 square miles (417 square kilometres) of upland landscape given protected ...