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Recommended towns & villages near Birkdale Common

The River Swale

Keld

(2.6 miles, 4.1 km, direction E)

Keld is a wonderfully scenic area at the head of Swalesdale. It is a lonely landscape with a small hamlet of stone cottages and outlying farms...

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Thwaite, North Yorkshire

Thwaite

(3.1 miles, 5.0 km, direction SE)

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Muker in Swaledale

Muker

(3.9 miles, 6.3 km, direction SE)

Apart from having a place in the history of the Yorkshire Dales, Muker is a walkers paradise and a wonderful relaxing place to stay whilst discovering the beauty of the area...

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A View of Swaldale looking west towards Gunnerside, North Yorkshire

Gunnerside

(6.5 miles, 10.5 km, direction E)

This is an attractive village lying at the heart of a landscape made famous in the TV series "All Creatures Great and Small"...

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Grisedale Pike in the Lake District

Grisedale

(6.9 miles, 11.1 km, direction SW)

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Wensleydale near Hawes, North Yorkshire

Hawes

(7.2 miles, 11.6 km, direction S)

This is a thriving, friendly market town at the heart of Wensleydale, it shows beautiful old stone properties, quaint shops, galleries, craft workshops and cafe's arranged around winding cobbled streets...

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Gayle, North Yorkshire

Gayle

(7.7 miles, 12.4 km, direction S)

The picturesque village of Gayle is found amidst the glorious scenery of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. It is on the passage of the Pennine way, close to Hawes and the National Park Centre...

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Semer Water, near Bainbridge, Wensleydale.

Bainbridge

(8.4 miles, 13.5 km, direction SE)

Bainbridge is the epitome of a typical Dales village, it comprises of picturesque old stone cottages, with a lively, well quarried stream running through it...

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The falls at Askrigg, North Yorkshire

Askrigg

(8.7 miles, 13.9 km, direction SE)

In 1587, Queen Elizabeth II granted a charter to this lively little village and in the 20th-century Askrigg claimed its place in history as the setting for the T.V. series based on the James Herriot stories of a vet's life in the Yorkshire Dales...

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Langthwaite

Langthwaite

(9.3 miles, 14.9 km, direction E)

A picturesque village famous for the opening title shot in the famous TV series 'All Creatures Great and Small'..

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Pendragon Castle

Pendragon Castle

(4.5 miles, 7.2 km, direction W)

Pendragon Castle can be located 4 miles south of Kirkby Stephen, near the hamlet of Outhgill...

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Hardraw Force nr Hawes

Hardraw Force Waterfall

(6.0 miles, 9.7 km, direction S)

Hardraw Force is claimed to be England's highest unbroken waterfall at 100ft. The falls were used as a location in the film Robin.....

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Brough Castle

Brough Castle

(8.8 miles, 14.1 km, direction NW)

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Arkengarthdale, North Yorkshire

Arkengarthdale

(9.5 miles, 15.2 km, direction E)

A picturesque dale on the east side of the Pennines in North Yorkshire, and once the centre of a thriving local lead mining.....

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middle of semerwater

Semer Water

(9.8 miles, 15.7 km, direction SE)

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Bowes Castle

(11.1 miles, 17.8 km, direction NE)

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Approaching Swaledale between Keld & Thwaite

Swaledale

(11.5 miles, 18.6 km, direction E)

Swaledale is one of the northernmost dales in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. Less visited, but just as stunning as the more.....

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Oughtershaw Moss

(12.1 miles, 19.5 km, direction S)

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Bolton Castle in Castle Bolton, North Yorkshire. Mary Queen of Scots was once held prisoner here.

Bolton Castle

(12.5 miles, 20.2 km, direction SE)

On a misty morning the ruined crenulated towers of Bolton Castle take on an eyrie aura and it is easy to imagine what this once.....

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Littondale

Yorkshire Dales National Park

(12.6 miles, 20.2 km, direction S)

The unyielding screach of a curlew from the skies above, is often the only sound heard in the far upland reaches of the lonely.....

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