Cottages in the Yorkshire Dales

For cottages in the Yorkshire Dales, there are many options to rent, or hire on the internet. Some are new, and some were used by shepherds in the past.

The Dales is the name given to an upland area, in Northern England. The area lies within the historic county boundaries of Yorkshire, though it spans the ceremonial counties of North Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, and Cumbria. Most of the area falls within the Yorkshire Dales District National Park, created in 1954, and now one of the twelve National parks of England and Wales (not including the South Downs which is due to become one). The Dales is a collection of river valleys and the hills in between them, rising from the Vale of York westwards to the hilltops of the main Pennine watershed (the British English meaning). In some places the area even extends westwards across the watershed, but most of the valleys drain eastwards to the Vale of York - into the Ouse and then the Humber.

"Dale" comes from a Nordic/Germanic word for valley, and occurs in valley names across Yorkshire (and northern England generally) but since the creation of the Yorkshire Dales National park, the name "Yorkshire Dales" has come to refer specifically to these western dales (the area of dales and hills EAST of the Vale of York is now always called the "North York Moors" after the National Park created there). Confusingly, the Yorkshire Dales have plenty of moors, too.

They tend to be Glacial.

Some may use friends cottages, and some may use ones given as gifts.

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Other famous Dales Include Dale Winton and Daley Thomas also Dale Thomas and Dale Gordon, also there are newspapers, the Daily Mirror, the Daily Record, Dale Record, and Daily Express and Daily Mail and the famous Daily Planet fampous, not spelt the Dale Planet that is nopt I mean nopt

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The Website Cottage Ireland

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The Highland Clearances

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Cottages in York

Holiday Cottages in North Yorkshire

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