The global success of the recent movie, Wuthering Heights, has heightened interest in walking holidays in Britain’s beautiful Yorkshire Dales where the romantic period drama was filmed.
European walk operator, On Foot Holidays, which was this month named Gold Award winner in Tour Operator the Year by Britain’s AITO (Association of Independent Tour Operators), offers a week-long, self-guided walking holiday in the Yorkshire Dales, including accommodation and daily baggage transfers along the way. On Foot Holidays says inquiries about the company’s hiking holiday in the region have risen in the wake of the hit movie, particularly from Australia because Australian actors Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi starred in the film.
While the sweeping story of the movie is fictional, the dramatic, real-life backdrops of the Yorkshire Dales and moors are clearly inspiring new audiences to experience the wild and beautiful landscapes firsthand.
One of the 39 self-guided walking holidays offered across Europe by On Foot Holidays, the company’s seven-night Yorkshire Dales hike takes ‘slow travellers’ through UK’s famous Yorkshire Dales National Park, known affectionately across Great Britain as ‘God’s own county’. Renowned for spectacular views, mysterious caves and medieval ruins, the rugged landscape and picturesque villages of Yorkshire have inspired books and films for decades.
Boasting unspoilt villages, drystone walls, and vast tracts of green fields, hills and woods, the Yorkshire Dales route is available to walk in the sunnier months from May to October each year. Along the way, guests will stay in country pubs and comfortable B&Bs and eat well, with two French-chef-run establishments on the route to supplement the hearty Yorkshire fare.
Beginning in the eastern lowland, in the little cathedral city of Ripon, the first day will take travellers to the hauntingly beautiful ruins of Fountains Abbey, one of the most important religious centres of medieval England. The route will also take walkers over brooks and meadows to Brimham Rocks, a collection of balancing natural rock formations. The route then starts to gradually climb through the sheep country of the Dales. After visiting the market town of Settle, guests will continue to Austwick, a village nestled in the dale below Ingleborough, one of Yorkshire’s ‘three peaks’ and the final walking challenge.
The walk is graded medium-hard, with three to seven hours of walking each day. Including seven nights’ accommodation, seven breakfasts, local transfers and all luggage transfers – meaning travellers simply carry a day pack – and including a five per cent saving if booked before April 30, 2026 (quote code YOD5), the hiking trip costs from £1055 per person, twin-share (approximately A$2006 depending on exchange rates).
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On Foot Holidays offers 39 ‘slow travel’, self-guided walking tours in 11 countries across Europe. Walkers select their departure dates and all routes are designed by locals and tested by staff from On Foot Holidays.
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