Skipton is the main centre of the western Yorkshire Dales and is located on the Leeds & Liverpool Canal, it's castle which stands on a grag was ruined in the Civil War being the last stronghold in the north to fall to Cromwell's Armies. The Corn Mill in Chapel Street ceased grinding flour in the 1950's and has been restored and again produces many varieties of flour.

Settle is to the east of Skipton on the A65 Trunk Road and is overlooked by Castleberg Grag a 300 foot face of limestone, there is a waterwheel driven Joinery Shop near the bridge over the river Ribble. Other fine old buildings include Preston's Folly built in 1675 and never completed due to a lack of finance.

The town is the south end of the 19th Century Railroad, still in operation by modern commuter trains and occasionally restored Steam Locomotives, being popular with steam rail enthusiasts. The scenic route to Carlisle is renowned for its views especially across the Ribblehead Viaduct which has also to be viewed from below to comprehend the Victorian Engineering.

Continuing on the A65 along Giggleswick Scar to Clapham  where the grey stone houses add a charm to one of the pot holing centres of the area, with a Ingleborough Cave with fine examples of stalactites and stalagmites to view. Then on to Gaping Gill with its 365 foot waterfall which descends into a cavern of majestic magnitude, where during the summer months those inclined can be lowered into the cavern.

Continuing to Ingleton below Ingleborough Hill which is riddled with potholing passages and a walk up Kingsdale to Pecca Falls and Thornton Force which in the winter is often a fifty foot ice wall. Just out of town on the road up Chapel le Dale and Ribblehead is White Scar Cave which extends almost a kilometre with two waterfalls with in it.

Ingleton is just a few miles from Kirkby Lonsdale where a countination tour can be made through Barbondale to Dentdale and onto Sedbergh through this beautiful area of Britain often called the forgotten Cumbria.

A Roman road takes you  along Raven Scar and over the moor to Ribblehead and the viaduct, it took six years to build with it's 24 arches and has to be viewed from below to comprehend the Victorian Engineering. It was completed in 1879 and  further up line towards Carlisle it goes under Blea Moor through a tunnel 2.5 kilometres long.

Driving down Ribblesdale to Horton the limestone outcrops of Pen-y-ghent a peak of the Pennine Hills is seen heading on to Stainforth, where there is a 17th Century Packhorse Bridge across the river Ribble which cascades over Stainforth Force a few hundred metres  downstream. rising from the Dale over Eve Moor before dropping into Malham.