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Railway Tracks and Walking

in the Yorkshire Dales

Enjoy the perfect blend of incredible rail journeys and invigorating
countryside walks on an adventure through the Yorkshire Dales.

5 Days from £699
Here’s what you’ll get up to...
Day 1 Make your own way to our hotel in the River Wharf to Barden Bridge. This fantastic
Skipton where you meet our experienced Tour riverside walk through the Bolton Estate is a
Manager. Enjoy a relaxing evening with dinner chance for us to see plenty of wildlife. Look
in the hotel. D out for a fascinating variety of birds, such as
Day 2 Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway and wagtails, oystercatchers, kingfishers, ducks
the Bolton Abbey River Loop Walk The award- and geese, as well as plenty of wild flowers.
winning Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway During the walk, we’ll see the river flow through
was once part of the former Midland Railway a small gorge and have the chance to explore
route from Skipton to Ilkley. This morning, the Abbey ruins. This is an easy 7-mile walk
we’ll relax in one of the beautifully restored along mostly flat and well-marked paths, lasting
Edwardian and Victorian carriages as we’re approximately 3.5 hours. There is an option
pulled by a vintage steam locomotive through to shorten this – your Tour Manager and local
some of Yorkshire’s finest countryside. We’ll guides will provide details if required. We return
alight at Bolton Abbey Station, which is the to our hotel by coach and enjoy dinner this
start of today’s walk. The Bolton Abbey River evening. BPD
Loop is part of the Dales Way, taking us along

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