There are many high roads and passes in the Yorkshire Dales with fantastic views of the surrounding valleys and fells, but perhaps the best known is Buttertubs Pass. We visited here one summer a couple of years ago on one of the very popular Mountain Goat bus tours our way to Wensleydale Creamery, the cheese tasting there is sublime!
This road crosses the high moorland between Wensleydale and Swaledale – from the small market town of Hawes over to the hamlet of Thwaite.
There are places to pull in at the summit and you can visit the limestone potholes which give Buttertubs Pass its name. The story goes that as farmers rested at the top of the climb on a hot day – on route to the market in Hawes – they would lower the butter they had produced for sale into the potholes to keep it cool.
