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Gunnerside Gill (or Ghyll) is a small valley in the Yorkshire Dales, England, which branches off Swaledale into moorland to the north of Gunnerside. The site of intensive lead mining in the 18th and 19th centuries, the valley still contains much evidence of its industrial past.
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]
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 ...
The Howgill Fells are uplands in Northern England between the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, lying roughly within a triangle formed by the town of Sedbergh and the villages of Ravenstonedale and Tebay. [1] The name Howgill derives from the Old Norse word haugr meaning a hill or barrow, plus gil meaning a narrow valley. [2]
A Grade II listed church in the Yorkshire Dales being turned into a hostel is seeking a manager. St Michael and All Angels Church in Hudswell, near Richmond, is being converted into six-bedroom ...
A common feature of many Pennine dales and Lake District fells are the groups of cairns on the high ground. There is a fine cluster of "stone men" on The Nab of Wild Boar Fell — and a smaller group on subsidiary peak, Little Fell (1,834 ft or 559 m) at grid reference NY766008 , 1 + 1 ⁄ 4 miles (2 km) to the north.
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 ...