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Talking Landscapes - The Yorkshire Dales

Aubrey Manning sets out to uncover the historic interaction between the Dales and its people, which shaped their way of life and the landscape they live in.

The Dales is a collection of river valleys and the hills among them, rising from the Vale of York westwards to the hilltops of the main Pennine watershed. In some places the area even extends westwards across the watershed, but most of the valleys drain eastwards to the Vale of York, into the Ouse and then the Humber.

The word dale comes from the Germanic word for valley, *dalan (Old English dael, Old Norse dalr, cognate with Dutch dal, German Tal, Swedish dal). Most of the dales in the Yorkshire Dales are named after their river or stream (e.g. Arkengarthdale, formed by Arkle Beck). In fact, valleys all over Yorkshire are called "(name of river)+dale", but only the more northern Yorkshire valleys (and only the upper, rural, reaches) are included in the term "The Dales".

The characteristic scenery of the Dales is green upland pastures separated by dry-stone walls and grazed by sheep and cattle. The dales themselves are 'U' and 'V' shaped valleys, which were enlarged and shaped by glaciers, mainly in the most recent, Devensian ice age.


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Talking Landscapes - The Weald

Aubrey Manning sets out to uncover the historic interaction between the Weald and its people, which shaped their way of life and the landscape they live in. The Weald was once a vast forest covering this area. The name, from a Germanic root, signifies woodland, which still applies today: scattered farms and villages betray the Weald's past, often in their names. Investigating why so much woodland has still survived here when so much ancient forest has been felled elsewhere in England, the history of land and people is gradually revealed.