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Gaudy House Farm    
We have many enthusiastic walkers amongst our guests. You are also very  welcome to stroll around our own fields and gill. We are happy for those with dogs to do likewise, provided none of the livestock is disturbed.
Gayle and Hawes are both very close. Hawes is the highest market town
in England, and is a long established stopping post for travellers over
the Pennines.  (In fact, “Hawes” means a pass between the hills in
Old Norse). It still retains a friendly, unspoilt, local feel. There are a
good number of small hotels, pubs, restaurants  and cafes as well as
various interesting attractions.  Gayle has few facilities, but it is
an interesting  old village and the site of the recently opened Gayle
Mill, which featured on the BBC Restoration programme.
Towards Whether Fell and the Pennine Way from our  yard, with our tups looking on! (lop left)

Views down the Dale from the farm, spring and summer. The farm in snow over Christmas  (below)
Here are a few of our own favourite local highlights:
.....close to Gaudy and near Hawes
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Wensleydale Creamery
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Gayle Mill
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Dales Countryside Museum
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Hardraw Force waterfall
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Hawes Ropemakers
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Wensleydale Pottery
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A stroll around Askrigg
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The Ribblehead railway and viaduct
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Buttertubs Pass
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Aysgill waterfall – just over the fields
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Red squirrels in Widdale/Cotterdale
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Up the Pennine Way from Gaudy ....then back down to the Bands
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....and many other great walks
......and a little further afield
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Bolton castle
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Aysgarth Falls
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Walk to Keld from Muker
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Walk around Semerwater
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Middleham (castle and stables)
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White Scar Cave, Ingleton
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Black Sheep brewery, Masham
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Wensleydale Railway
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Richmond -- castle and Georgian theatre
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Leyburn market day (Friday)
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Walk up Whernside, Ingleborough and Pen-y-Ghent  ....and don’t miss Buckden Pike
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The famous Settle/Carlisle railway