Tracks and Trails

Walking in Yorkshire

East Dales

The eastern part of the Yorkshire Dales is Nidderdale. This area is characterised with unique landscapes, mountains and hills as well as containing castles, a ruin monastery, villages, churches and gardens to visit. Nidderdale is a area of outstanding natural beauty, with its stunning moorland scenery and tapestry of lush green meadows. In addition, the area has outstanding scenery with a steep sided valley, rock formations and remote moorland.

The area is also renowned for its reservoirs, especially Gouthwaite Reservoir, which is home to many rare species of birds and wildlife. For the walker, the Nidderdale Way is one of the main paths that passes through the dale and used by walkers frequently in order to explore the vast natural scenery and wildlife contained in the dale.

Areas in East Dales

Pateley Bridge : Thirsk : Masham

Pateley Bridge

Located on the eastern edge of the Dales, Pateley Bridge is an attractive little market town. Pateley Bridge contains has a narrow main High Street that slopes steeply up from the valley. This street is lined with shops, cafés, art studios, guest houses and public houses which are all worth a visit. There are several details of 18th and early 19th century housing in Pateley Bridge including bow fronted shop windows and handsome classical porches. England's oldest sweet shop can also be found here. Also high above the town are the ruins of the medieval St. Mary's Church, established here as early as 1321.
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Thirsk

Thirsk has a Viking name and derives from the word Thraesk meaning lake or fen. It is now a small market town located within the Vale of York, south of Northallerton, north east of Ripon and to the north of Easingwold. Thirsk is divided by the Cod Beck, a tributary of the River Swale which may have formed the marshy ground of Viking times. By the eighteenth century Thirsk had developed into an important coaching stop at the centre of a crossroads and was noted for its many coaching inns. Among the old inns in Thirsk still in existence are the eighteenth century Three Tuns and Golden Fleece.Today, Thirsk is a delightful market town centred around an cobbled market place with an interesting range of shops, cafes and places to visit. The town square has traditional coaching inns, and on Mondays including Bank Holidays and Saturdays there is an excellent open air market with a wide variety of market stalls.Back to the Top

Masham

Masham is a small, market, upland farming and arable town and area of the eastern edge of the dales. Masham claim to frame is that it is home to the world-famous Threakston brewery industry. This independent family brewery has grown in Masham since 1827 when it first started as a cottage industry at the brew house of a Masham pub called the Black Bull. Masham itself was established in Saxon period and lies peacefully on the River Ure. Masham contains quaint almshouses and a spacious Market Place. Behind the market place are a number of craft and gift workshops including Uredale Glass. The Church is also mentioned in the Doomsday Book.
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