Yorkshire Dales
A series of valleys cut into the Pennines, mostly in North Yorkshire, crossed by dry stone walls and dotted with field barns. Most of the dales lie within a national park created in 1954, and all are within the historic boundaries of Yorkshire.
- Where
- Hawes, England, United Kingdom
- Grade
- Well known
- Worth
- 10 points collected on site, plus 1 for its grade
- Coordinates
- 54.2667, -2.0833
Get the Yorkshire Dales stamp
Open LOQAH when you are at Yorkshire Dales. It checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is yours: confirmed on site in gold and struck with the date. It goes into your England volume with your photos and a note.
Near Yorkshire Dales
Fountains Abbey 37 km
The ruins of a Cistercian monastery founded in 1132 near Ripon, which grew into one of the wealthiest in England before it was dissolved in 1539. Its roofless church and cloisters now stand within Studley Royal, an 18th-century landscaped garden.
Saltaire 51 km
A Victorian model village built by the mill owner Titus Salt between 1851 and 1871, so his workers could live away from the slums of Bradford. Its great mill, which stopped spinning in 1986, now holds an art gallery and restaurants beside the Leeds and Liverpool Canal.
Windermere 56 km
A long ribbon lake in the Lake District, the largest in England by length, area and volume. Boats cross it between Bowness, Ambleside and Lakeside, and wooded shores rise to the fells on either side.
Hill Top 58 km
A 17th-century Lakeland house of rough stone walls and slate roof in Near Sawrey, once home to Beatrix Potter. She left it to the National Trust, and it is kept just as she would have known it.
Ullswater 63 km
A glacial lake about 11 km long and up to 63 metres deep, second only to Windermere in the Lake District. It once marked part of the border between Cumberland and Westmorland, and the daffodils of Wordsworth's poem grew along its shore.
Dove Cottage 64 km
A small house on the edge of Grasmere, home to William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy from 1799 to 1808. Here he wrote much of his best-remembered poetry, including I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and parts of The Prelude.
Durham Cathedral 65 km
A great Norman cathedral on a loop of the River Wear, the mother church of the diocese of Durham. It holds the shrines of two Anglo-Saxon saints, Cuthbert and Bede, and together with the castle beside it forms a World Heritage Site.
National Railway Museum 73 km
Britain's national museum of rail transport, part of the Science Museum Group. Its halls hold Mallard, Duchess of Hamilton, a Stirling Single and a Japanese bullet train, and it was named European Museum of the Year in 2001.
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Questions
Where is Yorkshire Dales?
Yorkshire Dales is in Hawes, England, United Kingdom. The nearest other LOQAH stamps are Fountains Abbey (37 km), Saltaire (51 km), Windermere (56 km).
How do I get the Yorkshire Dales stamp?
Open LOQAH when you are at Yorkshire Dales and get its stamp. The app checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp goes into your England volume, confirmed on site, with the date.
I have been to Yorkshire Dales before. Can I still have the stamp?
Yes. Add it from Earlier trips in your England volume, with the date if you know it, or import your Google Timeline and LOQAH matches the places you were.
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