Landscape Character Assessment

The full published version of Yorkshire Dales National Park Landscape Character Assessment is available here.  Click on the links below to download the individual sections as PDF documents.

Contents and executive summary

Part one: Landscape Character Assessment

• 1.0 Introduction

• 2.0 The Yorkshire Dales National Park

• 3.0 Landscape Character Types

Figure 1: The study area

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Figure 2: Regional LCAs

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Figure 3: Character assessments undertaken by neighbouring authorities

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Figure 4: Character areas boundary map

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Dales and dales fringe character areas

• Swaledale and Arkengarthdale
  1.  Upper Swaledale
  2.  Arkengarthdale
  3.  Mid Swaledale
  

• The Cumbrian Fells
  4.  Dentdale and Deepdale
  5.  Garsdale
  6.  Rawthey Valley
  7.  Lune Valley
  

• Wensleydale
  8.  Upper Wensleydale
  9.  Mid Wenshleydale
  10. Lower Wensleydale
  11. Cotterdale
  12. Widdale
  13. Sleddale
  14. Raydale
  15. Bishopdale
  16. Waldendale
  17. Coverdale
  

• The Craven Dales
  18. Kingsdale
  19. Upper Chapel-le-Dale
  20. Lower Chapel-le-Dale
  21. Ingleton Glens
  22. Upper Ribblesdale
  23. Mid Ribblesdale
  24. Lower Ribblesdale
  25. Crummackdale
  

• Malhamdale and southern / south western dale fringes
  26. Malhamdale
  27. Newton and Otterburn Moor
  28. The Southern Valleys
        (those enclosed by Winterburn Moor, Rylstone Fell and Flasby Fell)
  29. South Western Dales Fringes
  30. The Southern Dales Fringes
  

• Wharfedale and Littondale
  31. Langstrothdale
  32. Upper Wharfedale and Littondale
  33. Wharfedale-Craven Fault Area
  34. Mid Wharfedale
  

Upland character areas

• Southern Howgill Fells
  35. Southern Howgill Fells
  

• The Yorkshire Moors and Fells
  36. Northern Gritstone Moors and Fells
  37. Three Peaks and Central Moors and Fells
  38. Eastern Gritstone Moors and Fells
  39. Limestone Moors
  40. Southern Gritstone Moors and Fells

Part two: Quality of life capital assessment

• Quality of life capital assessment

• Figure 5
  Quality of life assessment of landscape elements: Why do they matter?

• Figure 6
  Quality of life assessment of Park-wide landscape elements: Benefits

• Figure 7
  Contribution made by landscape elements to landscape character: Dales and dales fringe character areas

• Figure 8
  Contribution made by landscape elements to landscape character: Upland character areas

Bibliography

Acknowledgements