The Dales Way: From Ilkley to the Lake District through the Yorkshire Dales (Includes separate OS 1:25K Map Booklet) - Softcover

Terry Marsh

9781852849436: The Dales Way: From Ilkley to the Lake District through the Yorkshire Dales (Includes separate OS 1:25K Map Booklet)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1852849436 ISBN 13: 9781852849436

Publisher: Cicerone Press, 2018

The Dales Way links two of England's most celebrated national parks, the Yorkshire Dales and the Lake District. Well served for accommodation and facilities, and with easy walking on riverside paths, it is one of the gentlest multi-day walks in Britain and therefore an ideal introduction to long-distance walking. Accompanying rivers great and small, crossing farmland - and just a little moorland, following wandering winding lanes, the Dales Way visits a wide variety of fascinating features - from churches to viaducts, from traditional villages to ancient stone circles.

It can be comfortably completed in 6-8 days. Novices and experienced long-distance walkers alike will find plenty of interest on this wonderful walk, including glorious limestone scenery and characterful historic towns

Presented in six daily stages of 7-19 miles (with suggestions for alternative schedules), this guide describes the Way between Ilkley and Bowness-in-Windermere in both directions, with the main route description running from south to north.

The guidebook comes with a separate map booklet of 1:25,000 scale OS maps showing the full route. Step-by-step route description is accompanied by 1:100,000 mapping, and a trek planner, showing where facilities are available, is included to facilitate planning. Accommodation listings and useful contacts can be found in the appendices.

The guidebook offers comprehensive notes on local points of interest, as well as an overview of Dales geology, history, plants and wildlife to enhance the walking experience. The practical information is all there too, including when to go, how to get there and what to take, making for an ideal companion to enjoying this delightful route.

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About the Author:

Dr Terry Marsh is a Lancashire-based award-winning writer and photographer who specialises in the outdoors, the countryside, walking and travel. He has been writing books since the mid-1980s, and is the author, co-author or revision author of over 120 titles. Terry has an extensive interest in Cumbria and the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales, Lancashire, the Peak District, Wales, the Scottish islands and the Isle of Man.

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