Stone Barns in Swaledale Yorkshire Dales National Park |
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Swaledale is one of the more remote northern dales in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in Northern England and runs west to east to the town of Richmond (from where the River Swale flows into the northern end of the Vale of Mowbray). Swaledale starts to the east of Nine Standards Rigg, the prominent ridge with nine ancient tall cairns on the Cumbria–Yorkshire boundary which forms part of the main east–west watershed of Northern England. Swaledale is the dale (valley) of the River Swale on the east side of the Pennines in North Yorkshire. To the west lies Kirkby Stephen and the Westmoreland Limestone Plateau. To the south, Wensleydale, home of the famous Wensleydale cheese, runs parallel with Swaledale. The two dales are separated by a ridge including Great Shunner Fell, and joined by the road over Buttertubs Pass. Tributary valleys include Arkengarthdale once the centre of a long deserted local lead mining industry. Arkengarthdale along with Reeth was made famous in the James Herriot television series 'All Creatures Great and Small'. Villages and hamlets in Swaledale include Reeth, Grinton, Low Row, Gunnerside, Muker, Thwaite and Keld. A road from Keld leads north over the moors to Tan Hill Inn, Great Britain's highest inn at 1732 feet above sea-level. Below Richmond, the river Swale flows across lowland farmland to meet the Ure just east of Boroughbridge at a point known as Swale Nab. The Ure becomes the Ouse, and eventually (on merging with the Trent) the Humber. Swaledale is home to many small but beautiful waterfalls, such as Cotter Force, Kidson Force and Catrake Force.
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