25 major rivers flow though Yorkshire. Each of these rivers have their source on the Pennines moors to the west and the Cleveland hills and Westerdale moors to the north.

The Yorkshire Divide takes 10 of these rivers and the trails that run along them as the inspiration for three long distance bike trails and events in May/June and September 2024.

The rivers are: Don, Calder, Aire, Wharfe, Nidd, Ure, Swale, Esk, Derwent and the Ouse.

‘Yorkshire Hydrological Map of Rivers’ created by Chris Erichsen of ‘milestogo maps’.

 
 
 
 

 
 

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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)