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Photo of Ribblehead Viaduct, a landmark near Horton-in-Ribblesdale in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.

Ribblehead ViaductPhoto Aaron Mridha / Pexels

Places to explore near Ribblehead StationChapel-le-Dale

Ribblehead Station sits inside the Yorkshire Dales National Park. 51 places within 10 km — the standouts first, nearest first within each group. 5 are national icons.

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Worth the tripnational icons and local highlights within reach

Photo of Ribblehead Viaduct, a landmark near Horton-in-Ribblesdale in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.Iconic

Ribblehead Viaduct

Landmark near Horton-in-Ribblesdale

Twenty-four arches of the Settle–Carlisle line striding across Batty Moss, built in the 1870s from navvy shanty towns whose dead fill Chapel-le-Dale's churchyard.

0.8 km NW

Photo along the Pennine Bridleway, a 205-mile National Trail running from Middleton Top or Hartington to A683 at Cote Moor, England.Highlight

Pennine Bridleway

National Trail

The Pennines for horse and bike — old packhorse trails and drovers' roads.

3.6 km E · spans 6 counties

Photo along the Pennine Way, a 268-mile National Trail running from Edale to Kirk Yetholm, England and Scotland.Highlight

Pennine Way

National Trail

The first and toughest of them all — 268 miles along England's rocky spine from the Peak to the Cheviots.

3.6 km E · spans 8 counties

Photo: Whernside, a 737m hill near Dent in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.Iconic

Whernside

Hewitt · Nuttall near Dent

Yorkshire's highest peak, above Ribblehead Viaduct.

3.7 km NW

Photo: Ingleborough, a 723m hill near Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.Iconic

Ingleborough

Hewitt · Nuttall near Ingleton

Flat-topped Yorkshire Three Peaks summit.

5 km SW

Photo of Gaping Gill, a cave near Clapham in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.Highlight

Gaping Gill

Cave near Clapham

One of Britain's largest cave chambers, big enough to swallow a cathedral, into which Fell Beck plunges beneath Ingleborough.

6.4 km S

Photo of White Scar Cave, a cave near Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.Highlight

White Scar Cave

Cave near Ingleton

Britain's longest show cave, an 80-minute underground tour of waterfalls and a huge glittering chamber near Ingleton.

6.9 km SW

Photo of Thornton Force, a waterfall near Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.Highlight

Thornton Force

Waterfall near Ingleton

The showpiece of the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, the Twiss tumbling 14 metres over a bar of ancient rock.

7.9 km SW

Photo of Ingleborough Cave, a cave near Clapham in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.Highlight

Ingleborough Cave

Cave near Clapham

A show cave of floodlit stalactites and pools on the walk up from Clapham toward Gaping Gill.

7.9 km S

Photo of Ingleton Swimming Pool, a lido in North Yorkshire, northern England.Highlight

Ingleton Swimming Pool

Lido near Ingleton

A small heated pool in the Yorkshire Dales, dug by Ingleton volunteers in the 1930s and still run by them.

9 km SW

Photo of Norber Erratics, a rock formation near Austwick in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.Highlight

Norber Erratics

Rock formation near Austwick

A field of dark Silurian boulders left perched on pale limestone by melting glaciers, above Austwick.

9.1 km S

Photo of Ingleton, a village in North Yorkshire, northern England.Highlight

Ingleton

Village

Waterfall village at the foot of Ingleborough and Whernside, home to the famous falls trail and White Scar Cave.

9.1 km SW · North Yorkshire

Photo of Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, a waterfall in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.Highlight

Ingleton Waterfalls Trail

Waterfall near Ingleton

A four-and-a-half-mile circuit of the Twiss and Doe gorges — Thornton Force, Pecca Falls and half a dozen more on England's most famous waterfall walk.

9.2 km SW

Photo: Pen-y-ghent, a 694m hill near Horton-in-Ribblesdale in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.Iconic

Pen-y-ghent

Hewitt · Nuttall near Horton-in-Ribblesdale

Stepped lion-couchant profile, Three Peaks favourite.

9.2 km SE

Photo of Dent, a village in the Yorkshire Dales, Cumbria, north west England.Highlight

Dent

Village

A whitewashed village of cobbled streets deep in Dentdale, birthplace of the geologist Adam Sedgwick.

9.8 km NW · Cumbria

Photo of the Forest of Bowland, a National Landscape in England.Iconic

Forest of Bowland

National Landscape near Slaidburn

Wild heather moorland and the Trough of Bowland.

9.9 km S

Also nearbygood places nearby, nearest first

Photo of The Station Inn, a pub near Ribblehead in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.

The Station Inn

Pub near Ribblehead

Lonely moorland pub beneath the Ribblehead Viaduct, a warm refuge on the Three Peaks route.

0.2 km NW

Photo along the Dales High Way, a 90-mile long-distance path running from Saltaire to Appleby-in-Westmorland, England.

Dales High Way

Long-distance path

The Dales Way's high-level companion, crossing Ingleborough and the Howgill Fells on its way from Saltaire to Appleby.

1.6 km NW · Cumbria, North Yorkshire & West Yorkshire

Photo along the Ribble Way, a 70-mile long-distance path running from Longton to Ribblehead, England.

Ribble Way

Long-distance path

Sea to source up the Ribble valley, from the marshes at Longton to the high fell country above Ribblehead.

1.7 km E · Lancashire, North Yorkshire & Cumbria

Photo along the Dales Way, an 80-mile long-distance path running from Ilkley to Bowness-on-Windermere, England.

Dales Way

Long-distance path

The gentlest of the classic long walks — riverside paths along the Wharfe and the Dee from Ilkley to the shore of Windermere.

2.2 km NE · Cumbria, North Yorkshire & West Yorkshire

Horton-in-Ribblesdale

Village

The great starting post of the Three Peaks challenge, strung along the Ribble beneath Pen-y-ghent.

7.4 km SE · North Yorkshire

Photo of The Crown Hotel, a pub near Horton-in-Ribblesdale in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.

The Crown Hotel

Pub near Horton-in-Ribblesdale

Three Peaks walkers' institution beside the Ribble in Horton, a start and finish point for the challenge.

7.5 km SE

Photo: Gragareth, a 628m hill near Ingleton in the Yorkshire Dales, Lancashire, north west England.

Gragareth

Hewitt · Nuttall near Ingleton

The highest mountain in Lancashire.

7.7 km W

Photo of St Oswald's, Horton-in-Ribblesdale, a church in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.

St Oswald's, Horton-in-Ribblesdale

Church near Horton-in-Ribblesdale

A sturdy church beneath Pen-y-ghent in Horton-in-Ribblesdale, its Norman font a stop on the Three Peaks route.

8.2 km SE

Photo of St James' Church, a church near Clapham in the Yorkshire Dales, North Yorkshire, northern England.

St James' Church

Church near Clapham

A church above the beck at Clapham, its medieval tower surviving a rebuilding of the body in 1814, in a village of little bridges below Ingleborough.

9.7 km S

Everything else within 10 km (26) — reserves, earthworks & places to check before travelling

Ordered by how far each place is worth travelling for, then by distance. Distances are straight-line to the nearest edge of each place — paths wind, of course.