The Yorkshire Dales National Park is in one of the most popular and beautiful regions of England. It is easily accessible and has plenty of reasonably priced accommodation and other facilities. But it is the beauty of the area with its river valleys - the dales - and delightful villages and small market towns that give it its appeal.

It is an inexcusable omission that the National Park does not include lovely Nidderdale which remains outside it to the east. This omission should not be seen as a reason to avoid Nidderdale.