The Dales Border Line is an adventure on bridleways and greenways around the border of the Yorkshire Dales National Park on superb tracks in Malhamdale to the south, Swaledale to the north, Cumbria to the west and Nidderdale to the east.

It’s a rough stuff adventure ride into the unfamiliar Dales.

Cross Great Asby Scar with its superb grassland bridleways on the largest area of limestone pavement in the north

Along a hidden flowing switchback gravel track in Micklethwaite Gill

Pass the curtain walls of Bolton Castle, a 14th Century fortified house

To Iron Hill in the far north west corner where the YDNP is in Cumbria

Through Carlton, a Dales village with a community pub

Pass (or visit) Tan Hill

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The Dales Border Line takes you on every conceivable type of track - from classic Dales double track to singletrack and through bogs, fords, streams, rock gardens then onto bothies, quiet pubs, village cafes, castles, Abbeys, Coop mini stores and a few welcome stretches of tarmac on narrow lanes.

 

INspirational bit

 

“I have fled my country and gone to the heather.”

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights (1847)

 

“And the moors were always there and never without their promise.”

J.B.Priestley

Bright Days (1944)

 

“Water, that strong white stuff, can here be seen at its origins. It wells from the rock, and flows away. For unnumbered years it has welled from the rock and flowed away. It does nothing, absolutely nothing, but be itself.”

Nan Shepherd

The Living Mountain (1977)