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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]
View across the valley from Moughton Nab. Ribblesdale is one of the Yorkshire Dales in England. It is the dale or upper valley of the River Ribble in North Yorkshire.Towns and villages in Ribblesdale (downstream, from north to south) include Selside, Horton-in-Ribblesdale, Stainforth, Langcliffe, Giggleswick, Settle, Long Preston and Hellifield.
Side dales are indented under the dale from which they branch. An alphabetical list follows at the end. The Yorkshire Dales are dales in the Pennine area of the historic county of Yorkshire in northern England. They do not include dales south of Airedale or dales in other areas of Yorkshire, for example in the North York Moors.
The Yorkshire Dales National Park was established in 1954 and offers visitors outstanding scenery, a variety of wildlife and recreation options. An area known as the ' Yorkshire Nature Triangle ' comprises some of the county's most popular wildlife-watching locations and stretches from Bridlington in the north, to Spurn in the south eastern ...
Birkdale (sometimes written out as Birk Dale) is a dale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, in North Yorkshire, England. [1] It lies at the far western end of Swaledale, close to the border with Cumbria. The dale is one of the smallest of the Yorkshire Dales. [2] The hamlet of Birkdale is in the lower part of the dale, 2 miles (3.2 km) west ...
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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 ...