You may recognise this place? It's a tiny hamlet packed with interest, right in the middle of the Yorkshire Dales. Perhaps you've seen it on TV, or wa…

Imagine digging Britain’s longest canal by hand. At 127.25 miles long, the Leeds Liverpool Canal took thousands of navvies 46 years to build, starting…

What links wet feet, The Cure, Wordsworth, Scottish Raiders and the Yorkshire Dales? Have you been to this place and stayed dry?

Is it possible to cr…

Has anyone ever made a 'laughing stock' of you? I love noticing small details, bits of history that have been around for ever, half-forgotten. Village…

The lovely hamlet of Arncliffe feels like it's tucked away in its own special time zone, safely distanced from the troubles of the world. The houses a…

Bones in the market place, an odd name, plenty of beer, sheep and creative people - where? Masham - it’s ‘peculier’…

The ‘peculier’ bit doesn’t relat…

How well do you know Ribblesdale? It's packed with 'big names' of Yorkshire Dales attractions as well as some more hidden landscape features.

Many fi…

You can tell a lot about the history of places in the Yorkshire Dales from their name. Ham, ley, ton, pen, foss... all give clues to the past.

First …

Why is there a statue of a dog at Garsdale station? Why is "Hawes" railway station actually in Garsdale? It straddles the Yorkshire/Cumbrian border an…