Upper Wharfedale

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Upper Wharfedale is one of 230 Sites of Special Scientific Interest in North Yorkshire. It is among the largest in the county. It lies inside the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

Other SSSIs nearby include Black Keld Catchment and River Wharfe. The closest station is Horton-in-Ribblesdale, about 11.8 km to the west.

More places to visit near Upper Wharfedale

Limestone country of dry-stone walls, field barns, waterfalls and the Three Peaks.

A hamlet of a church and an inn on the infant Wharfe, J. B. Priestley's favourite place, his ashes scattered here.

0.1 km NW · North Yorkshire

A low, ancient church straddling the infant Wharfe at Hubberholme, with a rare surviving rood loft and Robert Thompson 'mouseman' pews.

0.1 km NW

Wharfedale village of stone cottages and three pubs, known for its Calendar Girls fame and August scarecrow festival.

0.2 km SE · North Yorkshire

A quiet Yorkshire dale of reservoirs, gritstone rocks and wooded gorges, next door to the Dales but with room to breathe

1.3 km E

A great overhanging limestone cliff glacier-cut in Wharfedale, its jutting nose a landmark and a climbers' test.

1.5 km S