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Still dale and hearty As the Yorkshire Dales national park celebrates its fiftieth birthday, Gail Simmons picks the best walks, loveliest pubs and prettiest villages in the region

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From: The Sunday Telegraph London
Date: 20040905
Author:Gail Simmons

When Daniel Defoe passed through the Yorkshire Dales in 1724 he was not impressed. "Nor were these hills high and formidable only, but they had a kind of an inhospitable terror in them... all barren and wild, of no use or advantage either to man or beast." Now, almost three centuries later, the Yorkshire Dales is a national park and this year is celebrating its 50th birthday. How times - and attitudes - have changed. In uncrowded, pre-industrial Britain, towns were preferable to uncultivated countryside. Today, most people seek out a bit of wilderness, and the Yorkshire Dales, one of the ...

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