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Yorkshire Dales, the Glossary

The Yorkshire Dales are a series of valleys, or dales, in the Pennines, an upland range in England.^[1]

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Airedale

Airedale is a valley, or dale, in North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire, England. Yorkshire Dales and Airedale are valleys of West Yorkshire.

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All Creatures Great and Small (1978 TV series)

All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series made by the BBC and based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the pseudonym James Herriot.

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All Creatures Great and Small (2020 TV series)

All Creatures Great and Small is a television series set in 1930s Northern England, based upon a series of books about a Yorkshire veterinary surgeon written by Alf Wight under the pen name of James Herriot.

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Alum Pot

Alum Pot is a pothole with a large open shaft at a surface elevation of on the eastern flanks of Simon Fell, North Yorkshire, England.

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Appletreewick

Appletreewick is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England, north-east of Skipton, from Skipton railway station and from Leeds Bradford International Airport.

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Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty

An Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB;, AHNE) is one of 46 areas of countryside in England, Wales, or Northern Ireland that has been designated for conservation due to its significant landscape value.

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Arkengarthdale

Arkengarthdale is a dale, or valley, on the east side of the Pennines in North Yorkshire, England.

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Arkle Beck

Arkle Beck is the stream running through the valley of Arkengarthdale in the Yorkshire Dales, England.

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Aysgarth Falls

Aysgarth Falls are a triple flight of waterfalls, surrounded by woodland and farmland, carved out by the River Ure over an almost stretch on its descent to mid-Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales of England, near the village Aysgarth.

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Barbon Beck

Barbon Beck is a small river in Barbondale, Cumbria.

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Bishopdale, North Yorkshire

Bishopdale is a dale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire, England.

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Calderdale

Calderdale is a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, England, which had a population of 211,439.

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Carboniferous Limestone

Carboniferous Limestone is a collective term for the succession of limestones occurring widely throughout Great Britain and Ireland that were deposited during the Dinantian Epoch of the Carboniferous Period.

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Cave

A cave or cavern is a natural void under the Earth's surface.

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Caving

Caving, also known as spelunking (United States and Canada) and potholing (United Kingdom and Ireland), is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems (as distinguished from show caves).

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Ceremonial counties of England

Ceremonial counties, formally known as counties for the purposes of the lieutenancies, are areas of England to which lord-lieutenants are appointed.

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Chapel-le-Dale (valley)

Chapel-le-Dale is west-facing valley in the Yorkshire Dales, England.

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Clapham, North Yorkshire

Clapham is a village in the civil parish of Clapham cum Newby in the former Craven District of North Yorkshire, England.

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Coast to Coast Walk

The Coast to Coast Walk is a long-distance footpath between the west and east coasts of Northern England, nominally long.

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Coverdale, North Yorkshire

Coverdale is a dale in the far east of the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, England.

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COVID-19 pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.

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Cumbria

Cumbria is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Dale (landform)

A dale is an open valley.

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Dales Way

The Dales Way is an long-distance footpath in Northern England, from (south-east to north-west) Ilkley, West Yorkshire, to Bowness-on-Windermere, Cumbria.

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Danelaw

The Danelaw (also known as the Danelagh; Danelagen; Dena lagu) was the part of England in which the laws of the Danes held sway and dominated those of the Anglo-Saxons.

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Deepdale, North Yorkshire

Deepdale is a hamlet in Langstrothdale in the Yorkshire Dales in the north of England.

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Dent Fault

The Dent Fault is a major fault zone on the boundary between the counties of Cumbria and North Yorkshire in northern England.

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Dentdale

Dentdale is a dale or valley in the north-west of the Yorkshire Dales National Park in Cumbria, England. Yorkshire Dales and Dentdale are valleys of Cumbria.

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Drainage basin

A drainage basin is an area of land where all flowing surface water converges to a single point, such as a river mouth, or flows into another body of water, such as a lake or ocean.

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Driven grouse shooting

Driven grouse shooting is a field sport in the United Kingdom involving the shooting of red grouse.

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Dry stone

Dry stone, sometimes called drystack or, in Scotland, drystane, is a building method by which structures are constructed from stones without any mortar to bind them together.

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Ease Gill Caverns

The Ease Gill Cave System is the longest, and most complex cave system in Britain as of 2011, with around of passages, including connections only passable by cave diving.

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Emmerdale

Emmerdale (known as Emmerdale Farm until 1989) is a British television soap opera that is broadcast on ITV.

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Field barn

A field barn is an outbuilding located in a field, some distance ("further afield") from farmer's residence or the main cluster of buildings that constitute a farmstead.

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Gaping Gill

Gaping Gill (also known as Gaping Ghyll) is a natural cave in North Yorkshire, England.

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Garsdale

Garsdale is a dale or valley in the south east of Cumbria, England, historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire. Yorkshire Dales and Garsdale are valleys of Cumbria.

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Germanic languages

The Germanic languages are a branch of the Indo-European language family spoken natively by a population of about 515 million people mainly in Europe, North America, Oceania and Southern Africa.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving downhill under its own weight.

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Glorious Twelfth

The Glorious Twelfth is the twelfth day of August, the start of the shooting season for red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica), and to a lesser extent the ptarmigan (Lagopus muta) in Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

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Harrogate

Harrogate is a spa town in the district and county of North Yorkshire, England.

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Hawes

Hawes is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, at the head of Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales, and historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire.

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Highland

Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills.

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Historic counties of England

The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Celts and others.

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Historic England

Historic England (officially the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England) is an executive non-departmental public body of the British Government sponsored by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

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Howgill Fells

The Howgill Fells are uplands in Northern England between the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales, lying roughly within a triangle formed by the town of Sedbergh and the villages of Ravenstonedale and Tebay. Yorkshire Dales and Howgill Fells are natural regions of England.

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Ice age

An ice age is a long period of reduction in the temperature of Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers.

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Ingleborough

Ingleborough is the second-highest mountain in the Yorkshire Dales, England.

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Ingleborough Cave

Ingleborough Cave (formerly known as Clapham Caves) is a show cave close to the village of Clapham in North Yorkshire, England, adjacent to where the water from Gaping Gill resurges. Yorkshire Dales and Ingleborough Cave are tourist attractions in North Yorkshire.

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Ingleton, North Yorkshire

Ingleton is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.

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Karst

Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble carbonate rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum.

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Kingsdale

Kingsdale is a valley on the western edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park in northern England. Yorkshire Dales and Kingsdale are valleys of Cumbria.

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Kirkby Lonsdale

Kirkby Lonsdale is a town and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England, on the River Lune.

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Lake District

The Lake District, also known as the Lakes or Lakeland, is a mountainous region and national park in Cumbria, North West England. Yorkshire Dales and Lake District are tourist attractions in Cumbria.

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Lancashire

Lancashire (abbreviated Lancs) is a ceremonial county in North West England.

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Langstrothdale

Langstrothdale is a scenic valley in the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England.

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Last Glacial Period

The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known as the Last glacial cycle, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the beginning of the Holocene, years ago, and thus corresponds to most of the timespan of the Late Pleistocene.

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Leck Fell

Leck Fell is a Site of Special Scientific Interest in Lancashire, England.

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List of peaks in the Yorkshire Dales

This is a list of the peaks in the Yorkshire Dales.

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Littondale

Littondale is a dale in the former Craven District of the non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire, England.

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Long Preston

Long Preston is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England, in the Yorkshire Dales.

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Long-distance trail

A long-distance trail (or long-distance footpath, track, way, greenway) is a longer recreational trail mainly through rural areas used for hiking, backpacking, cycling, horse riding or cross-country skiing.

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Malham

Malham is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England.

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Malham Cove

Malham Cove is a large curved limestone formation north of the village of Malham, North Yorkshire, England. Yorkshire Dales and Malham Cove are tourist attractions in North Yorkshire.

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Masham

Masham is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.

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Millstone Grit

Millstone Grit is the name given to any of a number of coarse-grained sandstones of Carboniferous age which occur in the British Isles.

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Moorland

Moorland or moor is a type of habitat found in upland areas in temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands and montane grasslands and shrublands biomes, characterised by low-growing vegetation on acidic soils.

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Mossdale Caverns

Mossdale Caverns is a cave system in the Yorkshire Dales, England.

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Natural England

Natural England is a non-departmental public body in the United Kingdom sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

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Network Rail

Network Rail Limited is the owner (via its subsidiary Network Rail Infrastructure Limited, which was known as Railtrack plc before 2002) and infrastructure manager of most of the railway network in Great Britain.

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Nidderdale

Nidderdale, historically also known as Netherdale, is one of the Yorkshire Dales (although outside the Yorkshire Dales National Park) in North Yorkshire, England.

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Nidderdale Caves

The Nidderdale Caves are a series of caves in Upper Nidderdale in North Yorkshire, England.

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Nidderdale National Landscape

The Nidderdale National Landscape is an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty in North Yorkshire, England, bordering the Yorkshire Dales National Park to the east and south.

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North Germanic languages

The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages.

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North Pennines

The North Pennines is the northernmost section of the Pennine range of hills which runs north–south through northern England. Yorkshire Dales and north Pennines are natural regions of England.

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North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a ceremonial county in the Yorkshire and the Humber and North East regions of England.

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Ordovician

The Ordovician is a geologic period and system, the second of six periods of the Paleozoic Era.

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Orton Fells

The Orton Fells is an upland area in Northern England, mostly consisting of limestone hills, plateaus and moorlands. Yorkshire Dales and Orton Fells are natural regions of England.

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Panorama

A panorama (formed from Greek πᾶν "all" + ὅραμα "view") is any wide-angle view or representation of a physical space, whether in painting, drawing, photography, film, seismic images, or 3D modeling.

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Pateley Bridge

Pateley Bridge (known locally as Pateley) is a market town in the civil parish of High and Low Bishopside, in Nidderdale, in the county and district of North Yorkshire, England.

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Pen-y-ghent

Pen-y-ghent or Penyghent is a fell in the Yorkshire Dales, England.

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Pennine Way

The Pennine Way is a National Trail in England, with a small section in Scotland.

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Pennines

The Pennines, also known as the Pennine Chain or Pennine Hills, are a range of uplands mainly located in Northern England.

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Raydale

Raydale (also known as Raydaleside) is a dale on the south side of Wensleydale in North Yorkshire, England.

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Red grouse

The red grouse (Lagopus lagopus scotica) is a medium-sized bird of the grouse family which is found in heather moorland in Great Britain and Ireland.

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Ribblehead Viaduct

The Ribblehead Viaduct or Batty Moss Viaduct carries the Settle–Carlisle railway across Batty Moss in the Ribble Valley at Ribblehead, in North Yorkshire, England.

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River Aire

The River Aire is a major river in Yorkshire, England, in length.

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River Lune

The River Lune (archaically sometimes Loyne) is a river in length in Cumbria and Lancashire, England.

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River Nidd

The River Nidd is a tributary of the River Ouse in the English county of North Yorkshire.

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River Ribble

The River Ribble runs through North Yorkshire and Lancashire in Northern England.

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River Swale

The River Swale in Yorkshire, England, is a major tributary of the River Ure, which becomes the River Ouse, that empties into the North Sea via the Humber Estuary.

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River Ure

The River Ure in North Yorkshire, England, is about long from its source to the point where it becomes the River Ouse.

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River Washburn

The River Washburn is a river in Yorkshire, England.

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River Wharfe

The River Wharfe is a river in Yorkshire, England originating within the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

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Sandstone

Sandstone is a clastic sedimentary rock composed mainly of sand-sized (0.0625 to 2 mm) silicate grains, cemented together by another mineral.

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Selside, North Yorkshire

Selside is a small village in Ribblesdale in North Yorkshire, England.

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Settle, North Yorkshire

Settle is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England.

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Settle–Carlisle line

The Settle–Carlisle line (also known as the Settle and Carlisle (S&C)) is a main railway line in northern England.

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Shale

Shale is a fine-grained, clastic sedimentary rock formed from mud that is a mix of flakes of clay minerals (hydrous aluminium phyllosilicates, e.g. kaolin, Al2Si2O5(OH)4) and tiny fragments (silt-sized particles) of other minerals, especially quartz and calcite.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yorkshire_Dales

Also known as YDNP.

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See also

Parks and open spaces in Cumbria

Parks and open spaces in North Yorkshire

Tourist attractions in West Yorkshire

Valleys of Cumbria

Valleys of West Yorkshire

References