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©Hugh Mortimer
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking downstream from the bridge. The river flows down from the Pennines through Swaledale, and on towards Richmond at this point.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.2km<br/>The name Swale in Old English means 'swilling and fast flowing'. It certainly is when viewed from Lowenthwaite Bridge.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.2km<br/>The four arched Lownethwaite Bridge carries Reeth Road over the River Swale.
©David Rogers
Dist:0.2km<br/>Overnight rain had brought the Swale up considerably during the day making life difficult for some canoeists. At this level, the usual line through the furthest arch is bouncy, but the middle arch is usually easiest and the near arch perfectly possible, so paddlers have plenty of choices. In low levels, the middle arch is very shallow but unthreatening, whilst the furthest arch has most of the water, but is made awkward by big rocks. The gauge on Grinton Bridge (a ways upstream from here, where paddlers put in) was at three feet.
©Andy Waddington
Dist:0.2km<br/>The grey heron, which is approximately 36 inches long, often stands among he reeds on one leg, with its eyes half closed and its head hunched between its shoulders. Then, suddenly, it will pounce on a fish, eel, mouse or a frog with its pick-axe of a bill. It flies with its head drawn back and its legs trailing, an awkward flight which makes it vulnerable in the air to the attacks of terns and rooks. They usually build their nests in tall trees in colonies, returning to the same heronry year after year. Others nest on sea cliffs or in reed beds. A dance ceremony precedes courtship, the male stretching its long neck up and then lowering it over its back with the yellow bill pointing upwards. About four eggs are laid between February and May. Incubation last 25 days and the young leave the nest after two months. Both parents feed the young. Here the bird stands on a rock in the River Swale waiting for its next meal to swim by.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking upstream from the bridge. The River Swale is the northernmost tributary of the Yorkshire Ouse with its headwaters located in the eastern Yorkshire Dales, from where it flows in an easterly direction towards Richmond.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.3km<br/>George and Dragon public house to the left
©Hugh Mortimer
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©Glyn Drury
Dist:0.3km<br/>Not many steps from the church of the same name, this footbridge crosses Hudswell Beck, which was dry at the time of the photograph.
©Gordon Hatton
Dist:0.4km<br/>Very inquisitive.
©wfmillar
Dist:0.5km<br/>At the west end of the village.
©Hugh Mortimer
Dist:0.6km<br/>Vicar's Green Farm on the centre right.
©wfmillar
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©Glyn Drury
Dist:0.8km<br/>This photograph shows a view of the River Swale as it makes its way pass Whitecliffe Wood en route for Richmond Bridge. The picture was taken looking in a south-easterly direction towards Lownethwaite Farm.
©Philip Barker

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