What’s happening in and around Wharfedale

Wharfedale has so much to offer… There are many fun filled activities for you, your family and friends to explore..

Sporting Activities

Walking	www.countrywalking.co.uk
Climbing	www.rockfax.co.uk
Fishing	Kilnsey Angling Club 01756 752150
Golfing	www.skiptongolfclub.co.uk
Horse Riding	www.kilnseyriding.co.uk

Leisure Activities

Climbing

www.longashesleisure.co.uk

Places of interest and links

Bolton Abbey	www.boltonabbey.com
Skipton Castle	www.skiptoncastle.com
Kilnsey Trout Farm	www.kilnseypark.co.uk
Embsay Steam Railway	www.embsayboltonabbeyrailway.org.uk
Fountains Abbey	www.fountainsabbey.org.uk
Canal Trips	www.canaltrips.co.uk
Malham	www.malhamdale.org.uk
Light Water Valley Park	www.lightwatervalley.co.uk
Stump Cross Caverns	www.stumpcrosscaverns.co.uk

The village of Grassington, just a short distance away, is the perfect place to visit while staying here at The ‘Dev’.

There is an array of Pubs, Cafes and Restaurants where Light Lunches or Full Course Meals are always available.

The local Post Office and Spar Store offer all amenities possible.

There are many beautiful shops in Grassington, for you to browse at your leisure.

They range from Clothes shops, Gifts, Pottery, Art and much much more.

Nearby

There are plenty of things to see on your visit to the Yorkshire Dales and staying in the Devonshire Arms Cracoe gives you a head start when it comes to walking.

Here is our guided tour of the best walks in the area:

Walk 1. Cracoe
Walk 2. Linton
Walk 3. Malham
Walk 4. Norber Erratics
Walk 5. Hubberholme

As well as walking; the following visitor attractions are nearby.

Notes

Notable moments in pub history include...

The "Calendar Girls" of the Yorkshire Dales were famous across the world for their story of a group of Rylstone & District Womens Institute members attempting to raise money for Leukaemia Research. Posing for a risqué charity calendar, it touched so many hearts when it was later made into a major film.

Like Herriot, the film Calendar Girls made a star of the beautiful Yorkshire Dales countryside. The ladies themselves lived in and around the village of Cracoe, and many of the photoshoots for the calendar took place at the real-life Devonshire Arms pub. Other prominent locations in the movie included the village of Linton, the Cow and Calf Rocks at Ilkley, and the market town of Skipton, gateway to the Dales.

When you're visiting Cracoe, you may see the village postman who is one of only two people to appear as himself in the film - the other is TV show host Jay Leno! The film starred leading British actresses Helen Mirren and Julie Walters. Says Walters "The Landscape of the Dales" is an important element in the story, although I had been there many years ago, I did not realize how very different it is to the rest of Britain, nor how stunningly rugged or deeply romantic it is."