Swaledale's one of the northernmost dales in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in Northern England. It's the dale—valley—of the River Swale on the east side of the Pennines in North Yorkshire. Geographical overview Swaledale starts to the east of Nine Standards Rigg, the prominent ridge with nine ancient tall cairns on the Cumbria–Yorkshire boundary which forms part of the main East–West Watershed of Northern England. To the west lies Kirkby Stephen and the Westmoreland… (More on Swaledale)