This is an excellent handbook to assist you in planning your walk and to carry in your rucksack as a supplement to your guidebook and your maps. The Dales Way Association exists out of love of the route and the concept of walking it as an adventure; naturally, it has promotional aims, too, and these are expressed in the amassing of practical detail to help walkers along the way. The Ramblers Association is a nationwide body with the same ideals and approach.
This Handbook assumes that you are using your own choice of navigational methods and support. It does contain detailed descriptions, including mapping detail, of points at which changes have taken place in the route since the publication of the guidebooks. Don’t rely on it as your only guidebook The Handbook does list the appropriate guidebooks for you, as well as the maps you will need. They are all reviewed here on the Spotlight Guides website and can be purchased from our Bookshop.
Useful aspects of the Handbook are its detailing of the very kinds of facilities which will interest you as you walk: pubs and tearooms, toilets and telephones. Calling points of interest are highlighted, too, many of them helping you fill in the history of the area.
Perhaps the most useful feature of the Handbook is its detailed presentation of public transport to and from but also along the route. This is not countryside that heaves with buses or trains, so it is comforting to know that in your rucksack you have the details of what is available to give you a lift along the way or get you back out to so-called civilisation. Should you not have availed yourself of Sherpa Van’ services, you will find some accommodation suggestions in the Handbook. Be sure to give careful thought to booking, especially at peak times such as summer weekends.
A practical Handbook: there’s nothing to lose by studying it in advance of your walk and slipping it into your rucksack.
The Dales Way Handbook is a low cost publication, up dated and reissued every year. It is produced jointly by the Dales Way Association and the Ramblers'. It is an almost essential aid for anyone planning to walk the Dales Way. The Contents include most of the information within this Web Site. However, in addition, the Handbook does contain a list of over 100 addresses for accommodation along the route together with information on available public transport.
- Details of Maps & Guide Books
- Baggage Transfer and Accommodation Booking Services
- Details of Internet Booking Service
- Link Routes to the Dales Way.
- Updates to the Route.
- Facilities & Places of Interest.
- Public Transport available.
- Accommodation List including: Hotels, Guest Houses, Bed & Breakfast, Youth Hostels, Bunk Barns, Camp Sites.
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