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Explore Yorkshire Dales National Park holidays and discover the best time and places to visit. | The Yorkshire Dales – named from the old Norse word dalr, meaning 'valleys', and protected as a national park since the 1950s – are beloved as one of England's best hiking and cycling areas. The park's glacial valleys are characterised by a distinctive landscape of high heather moorland ...

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The Yorkshire Dales National Park can be generaly divided between limestone areas to the west and gritstone to the east, each creating its own type of scenery. Wharfedale contains examples of each and it is possible to walk from Grassington to Kettlewell through limestone and return at a different level through gritstone.

The Yorkshire Dales [http://www.traveldales.org.uk/] are in North Yorkshire. They are world-famous for their picturesque combination of rolling hills, woodland, wild moorland, dramatic landscapes and gentle valleys that create unique and beautiful vistas.