OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

This book is the first in an exciting new series that tells the story of some of Britains most beautiful landscapes. Written with the general reader
- the walker the lover of the countryside
- firmly in mind this opens the door onto a fascinating story of ancient oceans forests shallow seas & ice. Over millions of years the stunning limestone landscape has been laid down at the bottom of tropical seas deformed by movements in the earths crust & shaped giant glaciers & in our own time the simple effects of rivers & rain water.

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The landscape & people are the two most distinctive qualities of the Yorkshire Dales & this book employs new sources & methods to help the reader see both in a different light. In earlier centuries religious & social factors influenced the first names that were given to children. Distinctive surnames were inherited & their expansion or decline can throw light on local communities on migration & population growth. Place-names emerged from regional & customary practices that illuminate topography husbandry mining communications & much more. Thebook also uses material from Quarter Sessions title deeds wills & other documents to investigate a wide range of topics that touch on the lives of individuals & families from religious dissent to sheep-stealing & vagrancy. There is emphasis too on the poor showing the impact on families & communities of bastardy fire flood violence & other disasters. A book written for anyone interested in the local & family history of the Yorkshire Dales. Dr George Redmonds is a local historian with a life-long interest in name studies. In 1973 he wrote Yorkshire: West Riding the first volume in the English Surnames Series & in 2001 he presented the BBC Radio 4 series Surnames Genes & Geneaology. Recent publications include Surnames & Geneaology (1997) Christian Names in Local & Family History (2003) Names & History: People Places & Things (2003) & The Place-Names of Huddersfield (2008). The Making of Huddersfield (2003) has recently been reprinted by Wharncliffe Books. George is a well-known lecturer at international conferences. ...

Explore the Yorkshire Dales with this fantastic guide featuring 10 walks & 3 cycles & 2 car tours. There is information on the best places to visit in the area suggested itineraries detailed gazetter entries & listings of pubs where to shop local specialities activities local events & festivals. There is regional mapping throughout & each walk cycle & tour has a detailed route map. ...

Mark Denton captures the drama & beauty of one of Englands most treasured landscapes. From broad open dales to bleak uplands & isolated high hills Mark Dentons panoramic camera reveals the ever-changing light on both renowned & unheralded places. An essay by Richard Mabey describes his first acquaintance with the Dales & his growing understanding & appreciation of this unique landscape. This is the concluding volume in Mark Dentons Yorkshire Trilogy following Yorkshire Coast & Yorkshire Moors & Wolds. Mark Denton is one of Britains most acclaimed young landscape photographers described by Joe Cornish as one of the few photographers to have mastered the large panoramic camera & he uses it to capture landscape in all its drama depth & colour.. .the result is a unique body of work. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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Following the huge success of his portrait of The Yorkshire Coast Mark Denton presents a further collection of his remarkable panoramic photographs. This time he takes as his subject the Yorkshire Moors & Wolds two very different landscapes separated by the Vale of Pickering & encompassing forests remote farmlands dramatic rocky landscapes & gently rolling hills. In these images Mark Denton captures some of the most atmospheric varied enchanting & little-known areas in the whole country. ...

Yorkshire People & Coal is the third title in Peter Tuffreys Yorkshire People series featuring photographs from the Yorkshire Posts picture archives. This volume makes use of the wealth of pictures & information held in the Yorkshire Posts archives on the countys long association with coal. Peter believes there has never been a period in coal minings long history as eventful as the previous forty to fifty years & many of the pictures contained here are from that time. Images have been carefully selected to show how coal has had a wide-ranging effect on Yorkshire life. Most aspects of colliery life are depicted & not surprisingly several themes dominate throughout: disasters strikes & pit closures. It might be that coal is becoming a fading memory to those who lived through the trials & tribulations of the past fifty or more years & present generations might find it hard to imagine a time when it was relied upon to provide heating energy & a means of travel. However it cannot be denied that coal has left an indelible mark on Yorkshires long industrial history & its final glory years are aptly portrayed in Yorkshire People & Coal. ...

Three South Yorkshire friends all on the cusp of 40 fall pregnant at the same time following a visit to an ancient fertility symbol. For Helen it's a dream come true although her husband is not as thrilled about it as she had hoped. Not only wrestling with painful ghosts of the past Helen has to deal with the fact that her outwardly perfect marriage is crumbling before her eyes. For Janey it is an unmitigated disaster as she has just been offered the career break of a life-time. & she has no idea either how it could possibly have happened seeing as she & her ecstatic husband George were always so careful over contraception. For Elizabeth it is mind-numbing because she knows people like her shouldn't have children. Damaged by her dysfunctional childhood & emotionally lost she not only has to contend with carrying a child she doubts she can ever love but she also has to deal with the return to her life of a man whose love she must deny herself. Heart-warming up-lifting tear-jerking & lovely THE YORKSHIRE PUDDING CLUB is the story of how three women find themselves empowered by unexpected pregnancy. How it revitalises one woman's tired marriage strengthens another's belief in herself & brings love & warmth to a cold & empty life. ...

If you are new to walking in the Yorkshire Dales youre in for a treat as we trace our way up the Three Peaks. First though well do them one at a time giving a chance to savour the experience as well as getting to know the area. Paul Shorrock is the local expert who has brought together the whole Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge adventure. He starts by exploring each of the three peaks through six day walks before moving on to tackle the whole challenge. Everything you need to explore these glorious landscapes & prepare yourself for the 12 hour Challenge is included in The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge:-
- Fully detailed walk descriptions with frequent timings to aid navigation for the six day walks & the complete challenge.
- OS 25k large scale mapping of all the walking routes.
- Gps waypoints for the pin-point navigational accuracy that is so valuable for a successful challenge.
- Full training accommodation & local information for everything you need to know before attempting the challenge. The Three Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales provide some of the finest walking in Britain. With a combination of high peaks & stunning scenery the area is rightly popular with outdoor types from leisure walkers up to super-fit fell runners. It always seems to follow that when you have a mix of high places & human beings sooner or later someone will come up with an idea of a challenge of some kind. With the Three Peaks of Pen y Ghent Whernside & Ingleborough the solution was simple
- do them all in one walk!




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