24/05/2026
We are blessed to be located in Appletreewick, a beautiful village admired by so many
Appletreewick in Wharfedale, with Simon’s Seat standing proudly on the right and, if you look carefully over towards the left, you can just make out the River Wharfe winding its way through the valley below.
Appletreewick is one of those places that seems to capture everything people love about the Yorkshire Dales. A small village surrounded by rolling fields, dry stone walls, limestone scenery and some of the best walking country anywhere in Yorkshire. For such a small place it’s also blessed with two pubs, which probably helps explain why it’s such a popular stopping point for walkers and visitors exploring Wharfedale. The village itself dates back hundreds of years and still feels wonderfully rural and untouched in places. Even the name is thought to have Viking origins, which tells you just how much history these valleys have seen over the centuries.
It’s also a place that sits quietly amongst some very well-known Dales scenery. Bolton Abbey, Burnsall, Simon’s Seat and the Valley of Desolation are all close by, yet Appletreewick somehow still manages to feel peaceful and tucked away from the busier tourist spots.
Photography-wise, this is another panoramic image — as you’ve probably guessed by now, I do enjoy creating them. For me, panoramas give a much more natural sense of what it actually felt like standing there looking across the landscape. A standard photograph can sometimes feel a little restrictive with views like this, whereas a panorama allows you to take in the sweep of the valley, the layers of fields, the stone walls and the distant hills in a way that feels much closer to what the eye was seeing.
Although it looks like a single photograph, this image is actually made up of 36 separate images stitched together into one final panorama. It takes a little longer to capture and process, but it allows an incredible amount of detail to be preserved across the whole scene.
I would have loved a few more clouds in the sky to help balance the composition a little more, but on this occasion the real star was always the vista itself. Sometimes Yorkshire scenery really doesn’t need much extra help.
Sadly, panoramic images never quite show at their best on Facebook these days, as everything now seems geared towards portrait-friendly images for phones. A lot of the subtle detail and sense of scale gets lost once they’re squeezed into the feed, but hopefully this still gives a feel for just how beautiful this part of Wharfedale really is.
We’re incredibly lucky to have scenery like this on our doorstep here in Yorkshire.
And just a little reminder — please do feel free to share any of the images I post here. A few people have asked recently if it’s okay to share them, and the answer is absolutely yes — I’m always very happy for these photographs to be shared and enjoyed by others.
