Maps of the 2 Dales' area
Explore villages, roads, satellite views and links to view photos, videos & OS map of the area & now filmed in 3D.
Google Dales' street views here in 3D

Parish Council Meetings
More information here.
Grinton Parish Council meets:
Monday 6th September
new... Minutes for 5th July 2010
Reeth Parish Council meets:
Monday 27th September

Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond

Station Cinema, Richmond

Reeth District Memorial Hall
Theatre, Cinema & centre for many local activities.

Local Newspapers online

Darlington & Stockton Times

The Northern Echo

Yorkshire Post

Maps of the villages in the Dales
Maps, in pdf format, for each of the villages with the houses shown & named are available from the Colin Day site.

Affordable & Local housing
The Yorkshire Dales National Park has asked landowners to propose suitable sites for affordable & local housing. Maps of the suggested sites are available for download here

Dates of forth-coming events.

The Reeth & District Gazette
Published monthly containing full reports of events in the Dales & adverts of local businesses.
August 2010 is now available for download here

The Parish Newsletter
of the Parish of Swaledale and Arkengarthdale.
August / September Newsletter here

Fremington Illustrated Talks
2010 programme is now available -
new... Next talk: 8pm 23rd August 2010
'Northern Beauty: Painting the North of England 1639 - 1751'
David Chandler
The full program may be seen here or downloaded as a pdf file here. (2Mb)
Talks web-site with more information here

'The Visitor 2010', the official guide to the Yorkshire Dales National Park, is now available free from Park Centres and online.

Photo Galleries of the Dales
Please check the photo gallery regularly for new albums.

Little Red bus service route 30

Northern Dalesman bus 831

Local Weather

new... Weather from the Dales Bike Centre

Weather station & web-cam in Low Row. Also many photographs.

Weather forecast from the BBC

Grinton Village

Family History:
Memorials card index
for St Andrew's Church, Grinton & its churchyard.
Please also see the family history links' page &
Photographs of life in the Dales
in the 1950s & 60s taken by Lucie Hinson.

Local History
Please see Grinton Church pages &
the history links' page

Swaledale Museum
The Summer 2010 Museum Newsletter is now available on this site here.

Besides the large collection of items of local history, the Museum organizes regular meetings, talks and fieldtrips.
Programme of Events
available here
new... Wednesday 1st September 2010
‘The Bus Up The Dale Part 2 - The rise and fall of Percivals’. Repeat of Reuben Frank's talk.
7:30pm Fremington Sunday School

Link to Museum web site

new... Swaledale Outdoors
A new shop in Reeth stocking a wide range of leading brands of outdoor cycling, walking & camping equipment.
It's off Anvil Square at the top left of the market place just beyond Hudson House.

Charities

Great North Air Ambulance Service

Yorkshire Air Ambulance

Visitors so far this year: †

Visitors in 2009: 35881
Visitors in 2008: 14009
Visitors in 2007:   6118
Visitors in 2006:    1149

† The running counter above is not very accurate, it is corrected from the hosting company's detailed statistics at the end of each month..