Yorkshire Dales: Buttertubs Pass
Drive · 69 miles · 2h 50m · 10 stops
Up Wharfedale's stone-walled valley, over the legendary Buttertubs Pass into Swaledale, and back along the tops to Leyburn - Herriot country at its best.
Jeremy Clarkson called Buttertubs 'England's only truly spectacular road', and the limestone potholes it's named for sit right beside the tarmac at the summit. The full loop links Wharfedale, Swaledale and Wensleydale, three of the Dales' finest valleys in one drive.
The route, stop by stop
- Skipton
- Grassington
- Kettlewell
- Buckden
- Aysgarth Falls
- Hawes
- Buttertubs Pass
- Muker
- Reeth
- Leyburn
Drive it with turn-by-turn
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