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Walks Around Reeth & Upper Swaledale (Paperback)
Loot Price: R325
Discovery Miles 3 250
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Walks Around Reeth & Upper Swaledale (Paperback)
Series: Walking North East
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Loot Price R325
Discovery Miles 3 250
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Considered to be the capital of Upper Swaledale, the village of
Reeth stands high above the confluence of the River Swale and the
Arkle Beck and over the centuries has kept watch over the changing
face of the dale. Here the Mesolithic hunter/gatherer came on his
foraging expeditions, the Bronze Age tribesmen created cattle
ranches and began the early steps into agriculture and clashes
arose between the native Celts and the invading Anglians who were
to form the embryonic England. The Vikings who recognised the
similarities between their home and this little rugged dale came
and settled, creating as they did so a character that can still be
recognised today. During the Medieval period large religious houses
became established, evidence of which still exists on the ground
and in place names. Then in the 17th and 18th centuries the
industrialisation of the dale took place with hundreds employed in
the mining and associated industries. Join the writer in a series
of walks that explores both the countryside and the history that
shaped it, in this corner of what is thought of as the most
beautiful of all the Yorkshire Dales.
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