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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 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]
The park authority estimates that this contributed £252 million to the economy and provided 3,583 full-time equivalent jobs. The wider Yorkshire Dales area received 9.7 million visitors who contributed £644 million to the economy. [30] A traditional pub with rooms to let in Hawes, in the Dales of North Yorkshire
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.
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 ...
Dentdale is a dale or valley in the north-west of the Yorkshire Dales National Park in Cumbria, England. [1] It is the valley of the River Dee , but takes its name from the village of Dent . The dale runs east to west, starting at Dent Head, which is the location of a railway viaduct on the Settle-Carlisle Line .
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Swaledale at East Applegarth, near Richmond Ruined mine shop at Arn Gill. Swaledale is a typical limestone Yorkshire dale, with its narrow valley-bottom road, green meadows and fellside fields, white sheep and dry stone walls on the glacier-formed valley sides, and darker moorland skyline.