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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nDrive north towards Craven Moor, just after passing through the small town of Pateley Bridge. You\u2019ll then enter the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Your first stop here will be in the town of Grassington, after a trip of about 28 miles. This town has more of a Georgian era feel to it. You can spend an hour or so walking around, before getting back into your car and driving out along Wharfdale. You\u2019ll soon come across Kilnsey Crag, which is an imposing overhanging limestone crag. Just after you\u2019ve passed it, you\u2019ll find a small road that will take you to Arncliffe. The town is about 8 miles from Grassington. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Arncliffe and Malham<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
Arncliffe is in the Littondale district, well known for its rustic inns and pubs. You can sample local beer, served the traditional way out of a large jug on the bar counter. The Falcon Inn is a good recommendation. Then drive past the village green and head up a snaking single-lane road. This will take you up out of the Cowside Beck valley. After ascending for a while, you\u2019ll get to a fork \u2013 take the signposted route to the next town on your route, Malham, about 9 miles away. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By now you\u2019ll be in the heart of England\u2019s limestone region. The natural attractions become incredibly fascinating. You\u2019ll find several landmarks among the limestone gorges and small valleys in this area. The two most famous ones that you\u2019ll be able to stop and admire are Gordale Scar and Malham Cove. The Cove is a natural rock amphitheatre that once featured a waterfall believed to have been as large as Niagara Falls. Keep an eye out for the peregrine falcons! They make this area their home (there are birdwatching vantage points). You can also take a couple of hours to walk the Malham Landscape Trail. As you walk it you\u2019ll come across Janet Foss\u2019s waterfall, as well as the remnants of an Iron Age settlement in the region. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Once you\u2019ve rested a little after your walk, carry on driving south towards the next stop on your itinerary. The old Anglo-Saxon market town of Skipton is about 11 miles further along. Even if you only drive through the town, make sure to visit its High Street. It has a festival market atmosphere all year round. You can also treat yourself to a leisurely cruise along the canal for about an hour, which will take you past the ancient Skipton Castle. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The next part of your trip will be a roughly 25-mile drive to Ingleton, a small town that draws a speleologist from around Europe to its maze-like cave systems that burrow into the Ingleborough peak. You\u2019ll be able to view a variety of waterfalls as you pass through. About 17 miles further you\u2019ll come upon the capital of the Wensleydale region, the town of Hawes. This is also a market town, as well as housing the Dales Countryside Museum. And of course, it\u2019s also where you\u2019ll find the famous Wensleydale Creamery that produces the cheese that bears the region\u2019s name. You\u2019ll also be a couple of miles from England\u2019s highest waterfall, the Hardraw Force, which tumbles more than 30 yards down. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Departing the town you\u2019ll make your way over Tan Hill, on the Pennine Way. Here you can stop at Tan Hill Inn, the pub at the highest altitude in all of Britain. Suitably refreshed, continue your drive across the Pennine moors until you get to the town of Richmond, set in the picture-book countryside of the Swaledale region. The trip is one of about 25 miles and will take you through smaller towns you hadn\u2019t known existed, like Reeth and Arkengarthdale. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Richmond is one of the finest market towns in England. It\u2019s set alongside the River Swale, and is instantly recognisable by its most prominent feature, the Richmond Castle ruins. The town is known for its stone cottages and Georgian village architecture. Another of its most famous attractions is the Theatre Royal, which does indeed date back to the Georgian era. It\u2019s one of the finest examples of a playhouse from this period and was built in 1788. You can still take a tour of the premises, where you\u2019ll see the oldest stage prop scenery that still survives in England, believed to have been created sometime between 1820 and 1836. <\/p>\n\n\n\n This makes a fitting end to your Yorkshire Dales road trip, which will have taken you through some of the wildest countrysides in England while revealing a treasure chest of cultural, historical and natural attractions. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A driving trip through the Yorkshire Dales will take you through an area of England that is renowned for its small and pretty villages set among the mythical windswept moors and craggy limestone hills. You\u2019ll discover why these roads are often praised for their dramatic scenery as you drive through some of the most thrilling…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":3425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-travel","8":"entry"},"yoast_head":"\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.sixt.co.uk\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/\/sites\/11\/2021\/07\/UK-Malham-1024x704.jpg\")
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