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This fine market town is just outside of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, but makes for an excellent centre to explore the eastern Dales from.
The town itself, pleasantly situated on a low ridge above the River Ure on the edge of the Dales, offers a good choice of local shops, restaurants, cafés, and even a cinema. As well as its celebrated Friday market, the town hosts a superb annual Festival of Food & Drink every May, offering a wide range of organic food, drink and home-grown produce from throughout the region.
There are superb walks from the town, none lovelier than the stroll up to the summit of Leyburn Shawl, a long low ridge covered with pine woods, which gives extensive views along the Dale to Pen Hill and beyond. Keen walkers can continue to Preston-under-Scar, Redmire, Castle Bolton and even over Apedale to Grinton and Reeth.
A prime reason for staying here is that Leyburn is an increasingly excellent transport hub. Now back on the rail network thanks to the Wensleydale Railway line, the town is also easy to access from TransPennine Express trains on the East Coast main line railway at Northallerton via the bus from Northallerton to Bedale.
Bus times can be checked on the Dalesbus website.
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Hay meadow in Malham, © Rick at Fortybelowzero.
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