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A remote corner of the Yorkshire Dales. Looking down the dale towards kisdon Hill and Swaledale.
©Gordon Hatton
Dist:0.3km<br/>One of the many small stone barns which are prominent features in these valleys.
©Bob Jenkins
Dist:0.3km<br/>Single track from the village of Keld to Tan Hill, the highest pub in England.
©David Oxtaby
Dist:0.4km<br/>The fields are bound with drystone walls. Drystone walls are built without mortar, and their stability – they can stand for 200 years – is due to the skill of the craftsmen who place rough boulders and angular stones together. Many drystone walls were constructed as part of the enclosure of open grazing. They were especially useful in areas too exposed for hedgerows to survive and where stones were readily available. Most drystone walls are wider at the base than at the crown, and are often capped with coping stones. A typical wall has two outer layers of large, flattish stones enclosing an inner ‘heart’ of smaller, rounder stones. Often it is reinforced with ‘through bands’ of even larger, flat stones which can also be used as stiles. The very dryness of a wall makes it more likely to endure wind and frost and to act as shelter for livestock as well as a boundary.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.4km<br/>The track acts as a bridleway which takes riders and walkers to join the Pennine Way.
©Trish Steel
Dist:0.5km<br/>On the road from Upper Swaledale to Tan Hill Inn, this little place seems as timeless as the dales themselves
©Chris Heaton
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©David Brown
Dist:0.6km<br/>Looking south along path.
©steven ruffles
Dist:0.8km<br/>Not sure if there were cutting for silage or haylage here at Frith.
©Matthew Hatton
Dist:0.8km<br/>The track wriggles its way down the hill and up the other side.
©Trish Steel
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©David Brown
Dist:0.9km<br/>A very windy /steep track.
©steven ruffles
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©David Brown
Dist:0.9km<br/>A closer look reveals a second barn in the centre of the picture, next to a farm track.
©William Metcalfe
Dist:0.9km<br/>A lone tv aerial connected to a distant dwelling much lower in the dale, with cable trailing at the roadside.
©William Metcalfe

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