News en route
Storm Arwen Recovery
People and businesses along the route of A Dales High Way
that were hit hard by Storm Arwen are beginning to recover at
last.
The Station Inn at Ribblehead, which has been without
electricity, gas, water or phone since the storm struck on
Friday, today announced they were back in business! They had
remained open throughout offering a blazing coal fire and
bottled beers to cash customers.
Power lines across Batty Moss towards the viaduct were
damaged (see photo above) and the road towards Ingleton was closed,
with the road towards Hawes difficult to pass.
Elsewhere across the region, thousands of homes remained
without power as power companies Northern Powergrid (NP) and
Electricity North West (ENWL) were criticised by customers for
"woeful communications".
1 Dec 2021
New waymark post for Trench Wood
A working party from the Friends of A Dales High Way
met on Wednesday to put up a new waymark post near the start of
the trail in Trench Wood.
Bradford Council Countryside Service supplied the post, the
permission and the loan of the tools,
Julia Pearson, Chair of the Friends, provided the experience
and expertise, making sure they did it right. Chris Grogan
supplied the cake.
The Countryside Service have recently resurfaced the bridleway
that takes A Dales High Way into the
woods, along with some other popular paths that link lower
Baildon up to the top of Shipley Glen.
They suggested that a waymark post be installed at a fork,
where the bridleway takes a sharp left turn downhill, whilst the
Dales High Way continues straight on along path that gently works
it's way up to the Glen top.
After a fine morning's work, the working party retired to
hold the Friends' 2021 Annual General Meeting.
13 Nov 2021
North Yorkshire tops RSPB birdcrime report
North Yorkshire has again topped the league table of shame
for raptor persecution – the seventh year in a row.
Conservation charity RSPB (Royal Society for the
Protection of Birds) said 26 of the 137 confirmed
incidents where birds of prey were illegally killed in 2020
happened in the county.
The organisation said, of these two thirds were directly
related to grouse shooting and a further four incidents to other
types of shooting. Victims in the county included 16 buzzards,
two peregrine falcons, two red kites and one goshawk.
The Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority, whose area is
mainly in North Yorkshire, said the report made grim reading.
The RSPB said: “Wildlife crime data, court convictions and
peer-reviewed studies based on satellite tagging and bird of
prey populations show that raptor persecution has the most
negative conservation impact on raptors on land managed for
driven grouse shooting.
“In order to support the largest possible number of red
grouse for clients to shoot, the RSPB says that some estates
kill protected birds of prey despite all birds of prey being
protected by law in the United Kingdom.
“In April 2020, North Yorkshire Police officers found five
dead buzzards on a grouse moor on the edge of Bransdale in the
North York Moors. Four of the birds were confirmed to have been
shot, and the injuries of the fifth were ‘suggestive of damage
from a shotgun pellet’.
“Based on population studies for significant species, it’s
believed the true number of raptors killed is far greater, with
many crimes going undetected and unreported.”
2 Nov 2021
New stile at Feizor
Yorkshire Dales National Park ranger Nathan Allen has been
busy fixing fencing and installing a new stile on the approach
to Feizor, on the route of A Dales High Way.
Nathan posted the results on his Instagram page.
The new stile will help speed up those last few metres before
an inevitable and well earned stop at Elaine's Tea Rooms!
21 Oct 2021
90 miles across the glorious high country of the Yorkshire Dales
