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Day 7 and we have decided to keep it nice and quiet today with it being our last day. So from our village of Giggleswick we travelled 5 minutes by car to a nearby walkway and a wonderful waterfall. Yorkshire has plentiful of Waterfalls, with more information HERE . All I can tell you about where we visited today is that, it was such a beautiful sight, so peaceful and very at one with mother nature.

The geology of the Yorkshire Dales is perfect for supporting waterfalls. The spectacular landscape is a result of the area's geololical history with much of the Yorkshire Dales National Park covered in carboniferous limestone which is interspersed with shales, gritstones and sandstones. Natural landshift which created the topography of the area during the great ice age and subsequent erosion of the softer stones has caused rivers and becks to form waterfalls all over the dales. Some are little more than a few inches high, many less than the height of an adult person. Yet there are many many spoectacular waterfalls to be found. Some are solitary like Hardraw Force, the highest of them all and some part of a series of cascades like the ones at Aysgarth Falls. In this section I present my top 30. These are from my personal experiences while walking in the Yorkshire Dales. With each description I provide their source and the river the source flows into with details on how to get to them when walking. This includes a precise OS map reference. You must try to visit some of them on your next walking expedition into the Yorkshire Dales.