Hebden suspension bridge reopened early. From Facebook today.

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This relatively easy walk takes in some fine limestone scenery including the famous Kilnsey Crag, the dramatic limestone gorge Conistone Dib, the village of Grassington and Linton Falls. It’s a great walk for a #YorkshireDales first timer. See https://www.happyhiker.co.uk/MyWalks/YorkshireDales/LintonandKilnseycircular/Hiking%20Pages%20-%20Linton%20and%20Kilnsey%20Circular.htm

Hebden Suspension Bridge on the Dalesway will be closed from 19–23 March 2026 for essential repair work.
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https://www.yorkshiredales.org.uk/dales-way-bridge-to-close-for-repairs/

Dales Way bridge to close for repairs - Yorkshire Dales National Park

A well used pedestrian crossing over the River Wharfe will be closed for a period of five days later this month. Hebden Suspension Bridge in Craven requires some essential repairs, […]

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Providence Smelting Mill – Lead, Sweat and and 200 Years of Silence

The arch in this image above has stood on this windswept Yorkshire moor for over two hundred years. It is now the most eye-catching feature in this otherwise barren valley.

Near Greenhow, west of Pateley Bridge in Nidderdale, the ground holds centuri ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/03/15/providence-smelting-mill-lead-sweat-and-and-200-years-of-silence/

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The Prosperous Smelt Mill

These crumbling stone walls tell quite a story.

Standing at the foot of a bracken-covered hillside near Pateley Bridge, the ruins of the Prosperous smelt mill look like something from a forgotten world. They are, rather fittingly, exactly that.

Lead was probably first mined here by the Romans. The first written record dates from 1781. Aro ...

http://www.fhithich.uk/2026/03/14/the-prosperous-smelt-mill/

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