Parking: Free car park at Smardale Gill nature reserve. Includes displays about the area in a railway wagon with excellent cakes for sale at just £2 per pack. Approach Smardale via the turn off the ...

It started out as a one-off event but proved so popular that a now annual week-long walking festival in the western Dales and Eden Valley is about to celebrate its 10th anniversary.

The main attraction of this route, a disused railway viaduct, is hidden from Yorkshire walkers three times over. Firstly, it's not technically in the county (but is in the Yorkshire Dales national ...