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Stage 2 Burnsall to Buckden

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Stage 3 Buckden to Cowgill (Lea Yeat)

Stage 4 Cowgill (Lea Yeat) to Millthrop (Sedbergh)

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Stage 5 Millthrop (Sedbergh) to Staveley

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Stage 6 Staveley to Bowness-on-Windermere

Appendix A Useful contacts

Appendix B Accommodation along the route

Appendix C Further reading

Riverside loveliness along the Wharfe north of Burnsall (Stage 2)

ROUTE SUMMARY TABLE

Lush meadows in Springtime, above Beckfoot (Stage 5)

PREFACE

It is 25 years since I worked on the first edition of this guidebook, and in the meantime, I have re-walked every part of the Dales Way more than once while working on other projects.

When it came to this new edition, I again walked the route in its entirety between October 2016 and August 2017. The enchantment I experienced during that first effort has reduced not one iota – the Dales Way is every bit as beautiful and charming and agreeable as ever it was. In some ways, because odd kinks have been ironed out and some passages improved, the entire route is rather better than it was, although overall little has changed. This still ranks as the finest multi-day walking route in Britain on which to cut your teeth.