Farmer using a tractor to gather hay on the last day before rain is expected in his field in Reeth at Swaledale. Yorkshire, England, UK. This is a farming area where rural living and the countryside is at the centre of life in this county. Swaledale runs broadly from west to east. To the south and east of the ridge a number of smaller dales. Swaledale is a typical limestone Yorkshire dale, with its narrow valley-bottom road, green meadows and fellside fields, white sheep and dry stone walls on the glacier-formed valley sides, and darker moorland skyline.
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