[Globe Pequot Publishing] This new, thoroughly updated third edition of Yorkshire Dales (Slow Travel), part of Bradt's series of distinctive ‘Slow' travel guides to local UK regions, remains the most comprehensive guide to the area and covers the whole of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty plus nearby ‘Slow' and historic towns and villages. Yorkshire Dales could have been invented for modern travel. The region's cinematic caves, valleys, waterfalls and limestone geology are famous round the world. Within a short walk are filmset-perfect traditional pubs and cafés where you are as likely to chat to shepherds as celebrities. It is also a region with unexpected connections to the US. The lead in the roofs of the White House and Capitol building originated from Swaledale, from which many people emigrated to the US when the lead-mining industry collapsed in the late 1800s. Written and updated by two Yorkshire residents and outdoors e