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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]
Most of the dales are in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, [1] Nidderdale, Washburndale and Colsterdale are in the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. 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.
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 geology of the Yorkshire Dales National Park in northern England largely consists of a sequence of sedimentary rocks of Ordovician to Permian age. The core area of the Yorkshire Dales is formed from a layer-cake of limestones , sandstones and mudstones laid down during the Carboniferous period.
The name Yordas is thought to come from the Old Norse 'Jörð á ', translated as 'earth stream'. [1] [7] The association with a giant called Yordas probably came from the tale recounted to John Hutton when being shown around the cave by the local guide in about 1780 "this place had formerly been the residence of a giant called Yordas; from which circumstance he accounts its name." [8] [9]
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 ...
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 ...
Mossdale Caverns is a cave system in the Yorkshire Dales, England. It is about 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) north of Grassington, and east of Conistone, where Mossdale Beck sinks at the base of Mossdale Scar. It lies at an altitude of 425 metres (1,394 ft) on the eastern flank of Wharfedale, and extends south-east beneath Grassington Moor.