Hawes and the Buttertubs: Wensleydale Cheese and the Butter Holes
Yorkshire and the Humber, England
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Hawes and the Buttertubs: Wensleydale Cheese and the Butter Holes
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Hawes is the market town at the head of Wensleydale, where the creamery has made Wensleydale cheese since 1897 and the Dales Countryside Museum tells the story of the dale. The road north to Thwaite and Muker climbs past the Buttertubs, limestone potholes 20m deep beside the tarmac, said to be where farmers lowered butter to keep it cool on the way to market.
Required Activities
1
of 4
Watch the cheesemakers from the viewing gallery at the Wensleydale Creamery (cheese isn't made every day)
2
of 4
Look into the Buttertubs beside the pass road
3
of 4
Walk to Hardraw Force, a single 100ft drop claimed as England's highest unbroken waterfall above ground
4
of 4
Visit the Dales Countryside Museum in the old station at Hawes
Watch the cheesemakers from the viewing gallery at the Wensleydale Creamery (cheese isn't made every day)
Look into the Buttertubs beside the pass road
Walk to Hardraw Force, a single 100ft drop claimed as England's highest unbroken waterfall above ground
Visit the Dales Countryside Museum in the old station at Hawes
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