The village
Buckden is small and very pretty, sitting at the top of Wharfedale, surrounded by tall hills and with a stunning view up the valley towards the village of Hubberholme and the hamlet at Cray.

The pub
Buckden has its own village pub, the Buck Inn. It’s large and serves good food and ales. It also has rooms. Clifford House Farm is immediately behind the Buck, 30 seconds walk away! To see a picture of the pub, click here.

The village stores
We also have our own small village shop where you can order your daily newspapers, buy milk, basic household goods like washing powder, postcards, that sort of thing. It sits in front of the village green on the edge of the village. To see a picture, click here.

Map of the village
To view a map of the village, click here. To view an Ordnance Survey map of the village and the dale, click here.

Local events
Quite a lot happens in the village, from quiz nights to whist drives to art groups. The best place to find up-to-the-minute information is to visit village's very own community website at www.buckden.org (see the "What's On" (click here) and "Local Activities" (click here) sections of that website).

Where to eat locally
Click here for information on where to eat in the village itself or in the surrounding area.

The surroundings
The village of Kettlewell is only a ten minute drive down the valley (Kettlewell is where they filmed "Calendar Girls") and Grassington, the lovely old market village, is a further 15 minutes along the road. Skipton, "Gateway to the Dales", is the large market town closest to us, where you can do your normal food and general shopping (that said, there is a handy village stores in Buckden itself, where you can get your basics: paper, milk and postcards). Fountains Abbey, Jervaulx Abbey, Bolton Abbey, Ripon Cathedral, Harrogate, Embsay-Bolton Abbey Steam Railway, Malham Cove, Ribblehead Viaduct, Skipton Castle and Wensleydale Creamery are all close by.

Buckden itself is a village at the top of Wharfedale, where the road splits in two. Both branches run over to Wensleydale, one branch up over the very top via Hubberholme and Yockenthwiate. The other via Cray and Bishopdale, and past West Burton. Buckden sits on the River Wharfe and the Dales Way passes through. The village pub, the Buck Inn, is a large, Georgian coaching inn. It serves good pub food and the ales they have are excellent. There are two hamlets a mile or two further up the dale, Hubberholme with its ancient parish church (J B Priestley's favourite church, his ashes are held there) and Cray. In Hubberholme you can visit the George, a pretty whitewashed pub opposite the church and next to the river. And at Cray you have the marvellously friendly White Lion. Both pubs serve good pub food in front of open fires, fabulous settings for a lunchtime pint or an evening meal.

Back down the valley you have the village of Starbotton (the Fox & Hounds pub is lovely) and then Kettlewell with its large village stores, tourist shops, three pubs (try the Bluebell) and gorgeous church. And Grassington is only a few miles further back down the road, where you can pretty much get all your shopping done (there's a small supermarket, butcher, baker, that sort of thing).

The kids will love climbing up Buckden Beck behind the village and up to the waterfall. They can also splash about at Yokenthwaite where the river flows gently over the flat "limestone pavement", forming pools and little cataracts
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