Ingleton, Yorkshire Dales
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Spectacular waterfalls and stunning woodland scenery is what you will see on the Ingleton Waterfalls Trail. Meandering through the gorges and glens, visitors are treated to an astounding display of wild flowers, fruit bushes and herbs. Birds, fish and insects also inhabit this area.
The famous Ingleton Waterfalls Trail in Yorkshire offers some of the most spectacular scenery in the North of England. The trail is 4.5 miles long (8 km) and meanders through ancient oak woodland and magnificent Yorkshire Dales scenery via a series of stunning waterfalls and unique geological features.
Ingleton Waterfalls Trail passes through a nature reserve managed and owned by the Ingleton Scenery Company and partly by the Woodland Trust. The site forms part of the Thornton and Twisleton Glen Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) and a section of this area is also protected by a Limestone Pavement Order (LPO). The trail is one of the best places to see gorge woodlands in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. The deep wooded glens cut through carboniferous limestone in Thorton Glen and silurian slate in Twisleton Glen. The Rivers Twiss and Doe, which run through the gorges, form a series of waterfalls. The most impressive of these is Thornton Force.
Ancient semi-natural upland Ash woodland grows on the limestone with an understory of Hazel and Wych Elm, and with Yew on the cliffs and scars. The ground flora here is dominated by Dog's Mercury, Wild Garlic and Tufted Hair-Grass with the addition of herbs like Sanicle. An enclosure protects the now flourishing Lady's Slipper Orchid which has been reintroduced to the area. Ancient semi-natural Oak-Birch woodland grows on the silurian slate with a ground flora of...
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