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The Monsal Head Hotel commands one of the finest and most photographed views in the Peak District, extending across the Monsal Dale Viaduct towards Fin Cop, and north towards Upperdale.

Upper Monsal Dale is seen here from the Monsal Head Hotel. In breathtaking splendour, the river picks its way through the valley. The old railway line is visible in the distance.

This view of Middleton Dale, near Eyam, has totally changed today.

The Monsal Head Hotel, seen here in the mid-50s, commands a spectacular view down into Monsal and Upper Dale from its slightly incongruous Tyrolean balcony which was added to the substantial limestone

The farmer sits on his cutter as it slices through the sweet-smelling hay crop that will keep his stock through the bitter Dales winter.

The station and extensive sidings at Peak Dale were mainly for the transportation of limestone from the surrounding quarries - we can see some of them in the background of this photograph.

This view shows Curbar and Baslow Edges in the background, with the houses of the village filling the dale in the foreground.

St Oswald's parish church at Askrigg is the mother church of Wensleydale, and it is easily the largest church in the dale.

The smithy stood there, and in Butts Lane was a tithe barn and turf dales at what was then called West End.

The traffic-free minor road meanders south between drystone walls through the dale, towards Grange and Rosthwaite.

Bradwell is built on the steep slopes of Bradwell Dale, and the Steps are an easy way for pedestrians to get from the lower to the upper part of the village.

Grassington is still one of the most popular among Dales villages for the tourist, and scenes of congestion like this one are still common today.

The wooded slopes of Middleton Dale, west of the village of Youlgreave and near the hamlet of Middleton-by- Youlgreave, offer a tranquil walk in beautiful surroundings by the banks of the frequently-weired

As a major southern entrance to the delights of the Peak District, Darley Dale has always catered for visitors.

Early tourists were 'horrified' at the expanses of naked rock and impending mountains of places like Borrowdale, and feared to travel far into the dale, until poets like Wordsworth popularised the 'picturesque

In Roman times, Walton-le-Dale was known as Rigodunum, and in Saxon times it was called Waelletune. The manor was granted to Robert Bannastre by Henry de Lacy in the 12th century.

Non-conformist places of worship, such as this Baptist chapel erected in 1876 at Cononley, just south of Skipton in Airedale, are common in the villages of the Yorkshire Dales, reflecting the stubbornly

Malham, with its famous Cove, is still a major Dales honeypot.

A flock of white-nosed Swaledale sheep are driven down the road from the village green by a shepherd and his dog in the Upper Wharfedale village of Buckden in the Yorkshire Dales.

The name comes from the fact that it is a linear village strung out along the valley road, which runs close to the river on the northern side of the dale.

This scene today would be largely obscured by trees, which have grown up since grazing ceased in the dale.

This is a closer view of Darley Dale, looking towards the solitary tree-topped Oker Hill, which was the subject of a sonnet by William Wordsworth published in 1829 about two local lads going to war

The inn is typical of many in the villages of the Yorkshire Dales, originally relying on trade from local residents and farmers, but now mainly on tourist traffic.

A fascinating early photograph which shows the crags below Hay Top in Monsal Dale, and beyond them the freshly-excavated limestone scree (centre) of the embankment which was to take the Midland line