How Many Dales Are There?

The answer is, quite a few. There are five main ones, and we're staying in one of those - Wharfedale, with the Wharfe river running through it. Yesterday we visited Wensleydale, with the Ure river and Aysgarth falls, probably the broadest of the dales.

However, there are many smaller dales that few people visit. The first picture below (just an hour before it was dark) is from the shortcut we took from Hawes back to Buckden. It was a forty minute ride through very narrow roads - we met one other car on the entire trip. It is my kind of scenery, wild and moor-like (well, actually moor) but with vistas and colour tones of dale beyond dale in the distance. The road had double stone walls almost its entire length, and, as I discovered on the map, intersects an old Roman road. Dave and I are going to try to get back early tomorrow morning and get some more pics.

Pics below include shots from Bishopdale, Wensleydale and Langstrothdale (the darker ones, mentioned above). Lunch was beside the Ure river at was supposed to be a walkable stepping stone path across the river (to the left in the pic). Some of it was under 6" of very fast river, so we wisely passed.

The town shots are of Grassington, a very pretty if a little too touristy place.

Today we try to discover at least one G-D living Bradbury descendant in all of Blackburn.

P.S. Cathrin made me take a picture of her in her new hat woven right here in Yorkshire.