Tuesday 27 April 2010

May Walks from Malham.

Our next walk will be to the Yorkshire village of Malham and will be on;

Saturday 8th May 2010
The coach will leave the short stay car park to the south of Formby village at 0800hrs prompt.
Pre-booking is essential.

Malham is a small village, in the Pennines, at the southern base of the Yorkshire Dales. It's a pretty place, surrounded by limestone dry-stone walls, & with a stream running right through the middle of the village.
Mentioned in the Domesday book as 'Malgun', Malham has been a settlement for at least a thousand years. Traces of Iron age boundaries are still visible today. One hundred years ago, Malham was a place of mills and mines. Nowadays, hill farms and tourism are the main activities.
Malham is a popular walkers' destination. The rise in tourism over Malham's history has led to a barely-detectable deterioration of the area's surrounding paths as tourists wander off the paths and cause very slight, isolated pockets of erosion, a process often called "footpath erosion". The footpaths in the area are maintained by the Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority.
There will be three walks;

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