Countryfile

Mayor Robert Heseltine and mill owner Andrew Mear with actor Hannah Hobley in 2010

50 years ago, the restored water wheel at Skipton's High Corn Mill began turning again
IT was almost exactly 50 years ago this week, on May 23, 1970, that the giant waterwheel at Skipton’s historic corn mill at Mill Bridge began turning once again.

Haworth Bronte bridge

Walk traces wonderful literary landmarks

Stepping stones in Stainforth

WALK: Highs and lows in this spectacular area

Ripley Castle provides some fascinating history and beautiful surroundings on this route

Outing offers splendid heritage

Health visitor Margaret Egan celebrates her retirement

Settle area health visitor retires after serving community for nearly 30 years

Thmas Noblet, his wife Clare and a cheese.

Scheme that helps young Dales farmers has funding extended

Inspector Jon Grainge, of North Yorkshire Policeâs Rural Taskforce.

County is worst in UK for crimes against birds of prey

Rob Ashford, the new Yorkshire Dales ranger for Malhamdale, Ribblesdale and Lancashire.(Stephen Garnett photography/YDNPA)

Dream job as Yorkshire Dales ranger

Watch out for doggy junk food

Flowers bedeck the Yorkshire Dales countryside.

Still chance to enjoy Dales flower festival

Horton-in-Ribblesdale primary school.

National park makes heartfelt appeal to keep all its primary schools open

Dales history piece

The volunteers taking on the huge task of capturing the past online

Author Colin Speakman walking on Ilkley Moor. 6 May 2011.Picture Bruce Rollinson

Why Dales National Park must lead from the front

Farmers' charity is boosted by first sale

Tramper being driven by Bob Newing with Andrew Jarman, Ingleborough Cave Manager at Clapham Nature Trail entrance - taken by Debbie Boswell.

Ingleborough made easy for disabled people

Picture of week 5 October

Picture of the Week, week ending 7 October

Sir Gary Verity receives the UCI Bike Region award.jpg

Region awarded global cycling accolade

Aboard a narrow boat outside The Boat House is (left to right) bar owner Ian Clarke, Annie Fawcett, Ian's daughter Stephanie and bar manager, John "Spike" Garton.

Skipton's Boat House bar wins two top awards

Duke of Edinburgh for Dales Life feature

Residential scheme helps give young people a real love of the Dales

David Brewer, right, and his champion White Silkies, with judge John Falshaw

Teenager cock-a-hoop after show success

Rise hill, looking south east towards Whernside and Crag Hill with Deepdale nestled between the two. Picture: Megan Schofield/ Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority

Dales consultation raises issues over raptor persecution, the viability of communities and farming post Brexit

Latest Skipton Auction Mart round up

Latest Skipton Auction Mart round up

Winner getting a good steer for cattle contest

Winner getting a good steer for cattle contest

Hen harrier Circus cyaneus, adult female in flight, hunting, Loch Gruinart RSPB reserve, Islay, June 2002

Hen harrier 'on brink' of extinction

Dales farmer Neil Heseltine with his belted galloways in Malhamdale, picture Stephen Garnett

Working group of Dales farmers set up to tackle post Brexit agriculture policy

Giggleswick Scar

Focussing on walks you don’t have to drive to

High Cup Nick, picture by John Wood

Festival of walking was a big success

Marmaduke Miller - Dales Bred woodcut

Unique view of Dales on offer at exhibition

Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association help launch the Three Peaks Challenge fundraising initiative in 2014

Hit the peaks for Upper Wharfedale Fell Rescue Association's event

Ancient Laund oak - said to be 800 years old - sprouts new life. (Pic Roger Nelson)

Ancient oak refuses to give in

YDMT volunteers join the InTouch Foundation at one its mobile kitchen sessions

Pioneering partnership helping the needy and boosting the environment

Watervole survey site credit PTES

Why the vole population needs your help to survive

Lichen and moss growing at Beaver Dyke Reservoir

British Lichen Society visits Malham Tarn Field Centre

Getting ready for the first amateur race

Hundreds enjoy racing spectacular at Skipton Races

Chick being fed Picture by Andy Pritchard

Delight as Peregrine chicks hatch at Malham

From left, Richard Thompson and Mike Spence running in the Manchester Marathon

Blind Silsden resident Richard Thompson finishes the Manchester Marathon

Brown Hare, picture by Whitfield Benson YDNPA.

Wildlife of Dales stars on screen

Skipton finally got a through route to Scotland on opening of the Settle-Carlisle railway in 1876. It has always been prone to extremes of weather, as in January 1963. This freight train was passing Dent station on the first day the line had been

The story of rail development in the Dales

Cllr Chris Moorby empties a brown bin

Craven's first citizen experiences life as a bin man

Stories in Stone project officer Chris Lodge with Millennium Trust colleagues Dave Tayler and Don Gamble.

Look out for these majestic hen harriers – and help keep them alive

The specially produced Settle Folly volunteer postcard

Settle Folly appeals for more volunteers to join its vision

Rural campaigner Colin Speakman.

Great oak that has witnessed centuries of history is lost

Get away from it all in the Dales...and enter the spirit of cowdancing

Get away from it all in the Dales...and enter the spirit of cowdancing

Ken Rodney Construction colleagues working in Barden aqueduct

A fantastic feat of Victorian engineering

John Mollitt and his family in their official photgraph when he was inducted pastor at Ingleton in October 1979. Pictured with him are wife Pat, Joanna, then two, and Andrew, then six

The memoirs of a country preacher

Lock keeper Anthony Jackson

Playing a crucial role on canals

LPD 5th June 2016 challenging 80 mile ride.

Take a ‘little’ ride around the Dales

A solitary moment for Emily Bronte, played by Chloe Pirrie, in the drama To Walk Invisible

Film on Brontë family set to air tonight

Pioneering scheme improving Yorkshire’s countryside wins prestigious national award

Pioneering scheme improving Yorkshire’s countryside wins prestigious national award

1.Malham-Janets foss

Try walking in the Aire and discover plenty of hidden gems

Bag making, from left: Jo Rhodes, Kim Winder and Penny Lowe

Settle Timebank leads the way in community skill sharing

Hands on activity for Giggleswick primary school pupils.

Schools out for pupils in the Dales

Crummack pasture near Austwick planted with saplings.

New woodland on the horizon

Brooklands hedgehogs

Giving people the support they need to volunteer