From gill to open hill

Buckden Pike, Yorkshire Dales Dry stone walls over the snow-covered moor look like ropes lashed taut over cargo

If the Pennines are meant to be bleak and terrible, then Buckden Gill is very un-Pennine in its atmosphere, a tiered series of waterfalls tumbling through an exquisitely intimate gorge.

The water runs over smooth slabs of bone-white limestone into green pools which today hold the sun with a crystalline clarity and look misleadingly inviting; the whole thing feels like it might have been pinched from the Pyrenees.