Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) in North Yorkshire borders the Yorkshire Dales National Park to the east and south and covers an area of 233 square miles. It comprises most of Nidderdale itself as well as small parts of Wharfedale, the Washburn Valley and Wensleydale. Nidderdale’s only town is the picturesque Pateley Bridge, and its highest point is Great Whernside, at 2310 feet above sea level. The area is diverse and dramatic, with wild, open moorlands and secluded, pastoral dales, and the quality of its landscape was formally recognised by the Government on 14 February 1994, when it was designated as an AONB. Visit Nidderdale.co.uk for more information.
Nidderdale walking routes
Blubberhouses and Lindley Wood
13 miles
Blubberhouses and Nidderdale Way
15 miles
Druid’s Temple and Masham Moor
16 miles
Ellingstring and Jervaulx Abbey
14 miles
Glasshouses and The Coldstones Cut
12 miles
High Grantley and Dallowgill
12 miles
Lofthouse and Angram Reservoir
17 miles
Masham and Ilton
14 miles
Masham and Ilton Moor
15 miles
Masham and Leighton Reservoir
14 miles
Middlesmoor and Little Whernside
16 miles
Pateley Bridge and Brimham Rocks
11 miles
Pateley Bridge and Lofthouse
15 miles