Reprinted
Walking in the Yorkshire Dales: North and East
Howgills, Mallerstang, Swaledale, Wensleydale, Coverdale and Nidderdale
Walking in the Yorkshire Dales: North and East
Howgills, Mallerstang, Swaledale, Wensleydale, Coverdale and Nidderdale
This guidebook contains 43 circular day walks in the north and east Yorkshire Dales. It explores the dales, hills and moors between Kirkby Stephen and Pateley Bridge. Walking ranges from gentle 3 mile strolls to more strenuous day-long rambles across the Howgills, Wensleydale, Swaledale, Nidderdale, Mallerstang and Coverdale.A guidebook to 43 walks in the north and east of the Yorkshire Dales, covering the Howgills, Mallerstang, Swaledale, Wensleydale and Nidderdale. Most routes are easy or moderate, although there are a handful of more demanding outings crossing rugged upland terrain.
The walks, all easily accessible from Kirkby Stephen, Sedburgh, Pateley Bridge and Aysgarth, range from 5 to 19km (3–12 miles) and can be enjoyed in 2–5 hours. Several walks can be combined with another to create a longer route.
- 1:50,000 OS maps included for each walk
- Sized to easily fit in a jacket pocket
- Notes on refreshments and parking
- Information on the region’s rich geology, history, plantlife and wildlife
- Part of a 2-volume set – an accompanying Cicerone guidebook Walking in the Yorkshire Dales: South and West is also available
Printed book
A guidebook with detailed route descriptions, stage breakdowns, accommodation listings, profiles and maps - everything you need on the trail.
ISBN
9781852847982
Availability
Published
Published
17 Apr 2015
Reprinted
22 Mar 2022
Edition
Second
Pages
256
Size
17.20 x 11.60 x 1.45cm
Weight
300g
eBook
The complete digital edition of the guidebook, with full route descriptions, accommodation listings, profiles and maps, ready to use on any device.
Map key
Overview map
Introduction
The Dales Landscape
Geological History
?Human Settlement ?
Industry and Enterprise ?
Farming in the Dales ?
Plants and Wildlife ?
The Northern and Eastern Dales ?
The Yorkshire Dales National Park ?
Navigation and Maps
?Careful Planning ?
Clothing and Footwear ?
Food and Drink ?
Taking your Car ?
Leaving your Car Behind ?
Using this Guide
1 The Howgill Fells
1 Sedbergh and the River Rawthey ?
2 The Rivers Rawthey and Lune from Sedbergh ?
3 Winder, Calders and the Calf
?4 Carlin Gill and Fell Head from Fairmile Gate ?
5 The River Rawthey from the Cross Keys Inn ?
6 Cautley Crag and the Calf
?7 Around Wandale Hill ?
8 Baugh Fell from Rawthey Bridge
?9 Grisedale ??
2 Mallerstang ?
10 High Seat ?
11 Pendragon Castle and Little Fell ?
12 Wild Boar Fell and Swarth Fell ??
3 Swaledale and Arkengarthdale ?
13 Apedale and Harkerside Moor ?
14 Grinton and Maiden Castle ?
15 Fremington Edge ?
16 Slei Gill ?
17 Whaw to Dale Head ?
18 Old Gang and Surrender ?
19 Beside the River Swale from Gunnerside
?20 Gunnerside Gill ?
21 Ivelet Bridge from Muker ?
22 Great Shunner Fell and Lovely Seat from Thwaite ?
23 Muker, Thwaite and Kisdon Force from Keld ?
24 Whitsundale and the Head of the River Swale ??
4 Wensleydale and Coverdale ?
25 A Walk in Coverdale ?
26 West Witton and the River Ure to Redmire Force ?
27 Aysgarth to West Burton ?
28 Aysgarth Falls
?29 Ivy Scar from Aysgarth ?
30 Whitfield Gill Force and Mill Gill Falls ?
31 By the River Ure from Bainbridge ?
32 Bainbridge to Semer Water ?
33 Aysgill Force ?
34 Dodd Fell Hill and Drumaldrace ?
35 Cotterdale ?
36 Great Shunner Fell from Hardraw ?
37 The High Way ??
5 Nidderdale ?
38 Brimham Rocks ?
39 Ashfold Side
?40 Middlesmoor and How Stean Gorge ?
41 Nidderdale ?
42 Little Whernside
??Appendix 1 Route summaries and suggestions for longer routes ?
Appendix 2 Where to find out more ?
Seasons
Year round walking in the Yorkshire Dales, but be properly kitted out on the tops in winter.
Centres
Hawes, Sedbergh, Kirkby Lonsdale, Aysgarth, Reeth, Kirkby Stephen, Pateley Bridge
Difficulty
From gentle three-mile walks to more strenuous day-long walks and suggestions for longer routes, not technically demanding but you should be able to use a map and compass
Must See
The Howgills, Wild Boar Fell, Cautley Crag, Brimham Rocks, Nidderdale
September 2020
Walk 25 detour
Walk 25: Coverdale
The foot bridge spanning the River Cover to cross from Hindlethwaite Hall Farm to reach Horsehouse is closed and is not due to reopen until February 2021.
You can reach the nearest bridged crossing by continuing through the fields to Arkleside and joining the lane back over the bridge to Horsehouse, adding around 2km to the walk (see map below)
W25 Coverdale Detour to avoid damaged bridge (6.979 MB)
July 2020
2020 reprint updates
798 Reprint 2020 (973.368 KB)
January 2020
Walk 38 – The High Way – Amendment of final 2 paragraphs
page 216
Make your way through successive enclosures across the slope of the hill, heading for buildings set in a nest of trees, marked as 'Low West End' on the map. Through a final gate a track winds down towards the farm.
After the first building, turn off right at a footpath sign to go between West End Farm House and the adjacent ruin. After crossing Lockshaw Gill, turn immediately left through a gate and head away by the right-hand wall. Beyond a fence stile bear left to a track, your outward route. Follow it left back to How Beck Bridge and keep left again back to the road at Shaw Paddock.
June 2017
Route updates and corrections
Walk 31 -
Revised route description for passing the farm before crossing the river: "Guided by a sign to Middle Borwins, swing between the abutments of a dismantled bridge and then go right across the top of a field following the waymarks through a large gate into a paddock. Reaching the lean-to at the top end, bear left into a small enclosure and go through a small gate on the left down to a line of stepping stones across the river."
Walk 32 - Revised route description: “… eventually passing below a large house at Hill Top to reach a junction of tracks.
Carry on straight ahead for twenty metres to a kissing gate onto the lane, where you should turn left.
At the end by Old Cams House …”
The paragraph beginning “Guided by a sign” should be ignored.
Please note the route shown on the map for this walk is incorrect. The route line should continue directly from the disused railway line onto the track at SD 915 904, rather than passing through the farm at SD 914 903.
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