Dales Trails - Walking in Northern England
From East Yorkshire's Wolds and Derbyshire's Peak District to the North Yorkshire Moors and Pennines, you will find the valleys among the rolling hills, the limestone scars, the gritstone ridges universally known as 'Dales'. This vast area provides some of the best & most varied walking opportunities in the country.
Dales Trails gives you some ideas how to explore Yorkshire and other parts of Northern England on foot, and find hidden delights off the beaten track. You can follow one of my medium distance Trans-Dales Trails, try one of my day walks as featured in 'Walking with Underwood' , or join one of the two Walking Clubs featured below.
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SCENES FROM RECENT WALKS
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For more walks photos
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'Dales Trails Picasa Photo Albums'
STOP PRESS - 2nd July 2009
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
HORNSEA DISTRICT WALKING CLUB
*** Further details of the HWC 2009 Programme for July - December have been added to the Calendar page ***
WEDNESDAY EVENING WALKS
These continue on July 8th with a 5 mile walk from North Cave, parking by the Church, setting off at 7.30pm.
*** Details are on the Calendar page ***
MID-WEEK BREAK : LAKE DISTRICT : Aug 12th - 14th 2009
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LEVEN WALKING CLUB
WEEKEND AWAY : SWALEDALE : Sept 26th - 27th 2009
>>>PROGRAMME CHANGE 1>>>Because the above Weekend Away is one week earlier than originally planned,
>>>PROGRAMME CHANGE 2>>>The walk scheduled for October 18th has been changed.
*** Details of the LWC 2009 Programme are on the Calendar page ***
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ANN & ARNOLD'S 40th ANNIVERSARY
AT 41 THE ORCHARD
By Invitation only. For further details contact...
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DALES TRAILS - WALKS REPORTS
All evening walks start at 7.30pm from various villages in the Holderness/Beverley area.
Based at YHA Grasmere
Details from Stuart Kemp (07816 476143)
Based at YHA Grinton Lodge
Meet at Leyburn 10.00am Saturday 26th. Details from Bob Cutts (07774 641977)
the Sunday walk on Sept 20th has been moved one week earlier to the 13th, to provided a better distribution of walks.
By popular request, we will now be revisiting Newton Dale and Levisham Station to coincide with the NYMR Wartime Weekend.
More details will be published later.
Saturday, Aug 1st
... Arnold (07989 292522) or Ann (07889 268473)
WHITE PEAK WEEKEND - 6th & 7th June 2009
After glorious weather at the end of May, the month of June began in complete contrast - wet, windy and cold.
Members of Leven Walking Club gathered in the pouring rain at Monyash in the Peak District for a 9mile walk down Lathkill Dale as far as Over Haddon, returning via the Limestone Way and Cales Dale. At least the rain stopped for the last couple of miles so we had dried out a bit by the time we got back to Monyash
Following a Saturday night in Youlgreave it was good to look out on Sunday morning across a cloudy but dry Derbyshire landscape.
After driving the short distance to Ashford-in-the-Water we set off across buttercup meadows to Monsal Head. After going over then under Monsal Dale Viaduct we walked by the River Wye, then climbed up through Deepdale. As we emerged from the dale, the heavens opened and it was a very bedraggled group that arrived back at Ashford by way of Sheldon.
However after tea and cake in the Sunday School rooms most of us completed a walk round the village visiting the Well-dressings.
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BEN NEVIS - Sunday 24th May
Congratulations to Neil Patrick for reaching the summit of Ben Nevis, in what I understand to be very poor weather conditions.
It was really bad luck for our intrepid adventurers, because whilst they were battling against the elements in Scotland, Bob led a 13mile walk round by Castle Howard in glorious weather, I was getting a suntan on the beach in Devon, and Stuart was celebrating Hull City staying in the Premier League!
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Specially Selected Photos
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Each month a new walk will be added, resulting in a selection of walks for you to experience England's Landscape at its finest. North York Moors - Westerdale
WALK OF THE MONTH INCLUDES ROUTE MAP
The rest of the party decided to stop some 250ft short of the summit
Dales Trails Photo Galleries
Dales Trails Photo Gallery
Dales Trails 'Picasa' Photo Albums include Walks of the Month and the Walking Weekend based at Grassington in Wharfedale
For these Themed Photo Albums and all the photos from this months's walks
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'Dales Trails Picasa Photo Albums'
Dales Trails Walk of the Month
See Walking with Underwood.
WALK OF THE MONTH
A return to the Moors for a walk from the popular Lion Inn on Blakey Ridge down into the secluded Westerdale, than back up to join the Rosedale Railway above Esklets (11 miles). Thanks to Joyce Davidson for providing this route.
Click on this link for details: Blakey Ridge & Westerdale.
REPRODUCED WITH PERMISSION OF ORDNANCE SURVEY
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Welcome to the Trans-Dales TrailsThese Trails, Trans-Dales Trail 1, Trans-Dales Trail 2 and Trans-Dales Trail 3, are each about sixty miles in length and can be comfortably completed by anyone that is reasonably fit in five days, with four nights Bed & Breakfast accommodation.The routes establish links across the Yorkshire Dales using some of the public rights of way that are less frequently walked. There are three booklets in the Trans-Dale Trail series, each giving a detailed description of the route. The booklets cost £2.50 each (including p&p) and are obtainable from:
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The AuthorArnold Underwood is an experienced walker and a leader of his local walking club. He lives near Beverley and is the East Yorkshire correspondent for Country Walking magazine. He has walked the Ridgeway (1983), the Pennine Way (1990), the Dales Way (1993), and A Bowland - Dales Traverse (1994), the latter two with Peter Tomkinson. He has walked much in the Yorkshire Dales, Moors, and Wolds, including completing the Three Peaks, Lyke Wake, and Saltergate challenge walks - the last two again with PeterTomkinson.
Arnold devised the three Trails with the help of Peter Tomkinson, and together they walked each of the routes - Trail 1 in 1995, Trail 2 in 1996, and Trail 3 in 1997.
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Leven Walking Club
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