Swaledale

Swaledale is the most northerly of the Yorkshire Dales and has an enchanting feeling of being the most remote and uninhabited land in Britain.

Great stretches of dramatic countryside create a sense of being well off the beaten track, which is a different spin on the more prominently known cutesy Yorkshire villages in the north. The area is characterised by stone cottages and dry stones walls, which criss-cross rolling hills that are awash with hay meadows and rare flowers in the summer months.

The village of Keld is at the head of Swaledale and is the highest village in the Dale, situated where the valley is at its narrowest and most dramatic. Footpaths link all of Swaledale’s villages and hamlets with the River Swale meandering through out, revealing a series of gorges and waterfalls; the most impressive being Kidson Force.