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The majority of the dales are within the Yorkshire Dales National Park, created in 1954. [1] The exception is the area around Nidderdale, which forms the separate Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. The landscape of the Yorkshire Dales consists of sheltered glacial valleys separated by exposed moorland. [2]
The Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust was formed in 2004 with a remit to improve, restore and conserve the rivers Swale, Ure, Wharfe and Nidd whose headwaters lie within the Yorkshire Dales National Park [1] and the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. [2]
View of the River Ouse in York from Lendal Bridge Simplified map of Yorkshire's rivers. This is a list of named rivers that flow either wholly or partially within the boundaries of the four ceremonial counties that form Yorkshire. There are twenty five rivers of at least 20 kilometres (12 miles) in total.
Teesdale and its side dales, historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire, and sometimes considered part of the Yorkshire Dales, [2] [3] are in the North Pennines AONB. On 1 August 2016, the area of the National Park was increased by nearly a quarter, with an extra 161 square miles (417 square kilometres) of upland landscape given protected ...
The River Wharfe (/ hw ɔːr f / WHORF) is a river in Yorkshire, England originating within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. For much of its middle course it is the county boundary between West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire .
The Yorkshire Dales National Park is a 2,178 km 2 (841 sq mi) national park in England which covers most of the Yorkshire Dales, the Howgill Fells, and the Orton Fells. The Nidderdale area of the Yorkshire Dales is not within the national park, and has instead been designated a national landscape .
Chapel-le-Dale is west-facing valley in the Yorkshire Dales, England.The U-shaped valley of Chapel-le-Dale is one of the few which drain westwards towards the Irish Sea, however, the river that flows through the valley has several names with the Environment Agency and the Ordnance Survey listing it as the River Doe.
Wensleydale is a valley in North Yorkshire, England. It is one of the Yorkshire Dales, which are part of the Pennines. The dale is named after the village of Wensley, formerly the valley's market town. The principal river of the valley is the Ure, which is the source of the alternative name Yoredale. [1]