Swaledale is one of the northernmost dales in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in Northern England. It is the dale (valley) of the River Swale on the east side of the Pennines in North Yorkshire. Swaledale starts to the east of Nine Standards Rigg, a prominent ridge with nine ancient tall cairns on the Cumbria/Yorkshire boundary, and the main East/Weat Watershed of Northern England (to the west lies Kirkby Stephen and the Westmoreland Limestone Plateau). The moors on the eastern flank of the Ri… (More on Swaledale)