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Walk 26 Wold Fell

Walk 27 A Walk into Deepdale

Walk 28 Great Coum

Walk 29 Dentdale

Walk 30 Calf Top and Middleton Fell

Walk 31 Barbon Low Fell

Walk 32 Gragareth and Great Coum

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Walk 33 Attermire Scar and Victoria Cave

Walk 34 Langcliffe and Catrigg Force

Walk 35 Plover Hill and Pen-y-ghent

Walk 36 Upper Ribblesdale along the Ribble Way

Walk 37 Ingleborough from Ribblehead

Walk 38 Whernside from Ribblehead

Walk 39 Gayle Moor and the Source of the Ribble

Walk 40 Clapham and the Norber Boulders

Walk 41 Ingleborough from Clapham

Walk 42 Ingleton Falls

Walk 43 Kingsdale

Walk 44 The Yorkshire Three Peaks

Appendix 1 Route summaries and suggestions for longer routes

Appendix 2 Where to find out more

INTRODUCTION

The Yorkshire Dales is like nowhere else in England, a place of intrinsic and striking beauty that owes its scenic qualities both to Nature and to Man. Bestriding the central Pennines, that broad range of hills erupting along the middle of the country and known to generations of schoolchildren as the ‘backbone of England’, it boasts a diversity of landscape and character that is hard to beat. Walkers trudging up the Pennine Way from the south into Craven leave the sombre mill valleys fragmenting the desolate, weather-beaten moors of West Yorkshire and East Lancashire to be greeted by a brighter, more intimate scene of interwoven horizons. Rolling green hills, broken here and there by rugged scars of white limestone, rise to a distant, higher ground dissected by deepening valleys. Further east and to the north, the wild moors dominate, but even here a varied geology of underlying rock breaks up their melancholic uniformity.