Weekend in The Yorkshire Dales
Friday 30th August - Monday 2nd September 2024 Friday - Grassington We arrived in Grassington in time for our picnic lunch in glorious sunshine. We opted for the classic riverside walk to Linton Falls, a beautiful combination of a natural fault in the rocks of the riverbed and a manmade weir for a long demolished mill. The Church at Linton is very pretty and peaceful, well worth the detour... ...as was the walk to the village green and The Fountaine Inn where we managed a crafty pint. We retracd our steps to the Falls and along the water meadow into Grassington Village aka Darrowby from All Creatures Great and Small , with its cobbled streets and handsome buildings. Our accomodation for the weekend was around 30 minutes drive in Malham and we had our first taste of the narrow single track roads of the Dales. The Lister Arms has been a Public House since 1726 and we were made very welcome. There are 23 guest bedrooms and we were in the Lister Barn just across the road from the mai...