Photos of Bishopdale Bishopdale Bishopdale is one of the most stunning and least known Dales in North Yorkshire. It forms a beautiful unspoilt valley with hay meadows, stone barns and traditional Dales houses. There are several examples of cow byres and houses under the same roof line. When built it would have been thatched.
Straight hedges straighten and bent branches bow More in hard outline against frost-white ground.
As they descend where fodder may be found. Below, where ground is not too hard for beak To break and even roe deny their fear To feed when hunger drives them from the Rigg, And tracks of fox near scattered feathers prove That there are those who thrive when days are bleak, And frosts too hard for some small birds to bear. To where the Dale's horizon line should be. And on the fell at this stark time of year, You could believe that earth and heaven meet, Out there beyond as far as you can see. By Alan Hartley, Thoralby.