Instagram inspired visit around the Yorkshire Dales National Park
The Yorkshire Dales National Park is a beautiful location and has inspired many photographs over the years. I know as I have taken loads!
But today with mobile phones ever present, even if occasionally no signal available, many people are now taking photos and sharing them via Instagram.
So what if we were to see where the Instagram action occurred and use that as inspiration to build out a plan for their visit?
We thought it would be fun, it was a quiet Sunday, not much on, to look at various aspects of the Yorkshire Dales National Park and see which ones had attracted the most hashtags. We could have been obvious and just targeted the most photogenic topics but we wanted to create a more rounded view of what goes on in the YDNP and see where that took us.
So here below are the results and in no particular order or with any agenda and while we show the top three results we looked at the top ten in most categories.
Categories are: Waterfalls, Dales, Walks, Points of Interest, Villages, Attractions and Country Fairs.
If you are looking for somewhere to stay in the Yorkshire National park then do have a look at Swale View Cottage in Swaledale! Its very handily located for all of the sites featured below.
The Dales
winner is: Wensleydale
There are lots of Dales in the Yorkshire Dales National Park; 17 at least. So lots to choose from and they all have their own personality so while these three were the most popular, according to their instagram hashtags, go and visit them all.
Image Source: instagram.com/uk.shots/
The Waterfalls
winner is: Aysgarth Falls
Again, loads of fantastic waterfalls in the Yorkshire Dales National Park. There are plenty to choose from, many you can swim in, just be careful though. I do love the Aysgarth Falls though!
Image Source: instagram.com/steveniceton.co.uk
The Walks
winner is: Three Peaks
I was actually surprised by this. I though the Pennine Way would have won but not even close. Can’t wait to finally do the Three Peaks Challenge in 2020!
Image Source: instagram.com/creativecoeliac
Points of Interest
winner is:
Bolton Abbey
There are lots of historical building,s castles, breweries and gardens but Bolton Abbey is in a league of its own!
Image Source: instagram.com/helsbelsphoto/
The Villages
winner is: Malham
Ok, not too surprising as Malham has a triple whammy of the Cove, Tarn and pretty village And who hasn’t taken a shot atop the limestone feature?
Image Source: instagram.com/maggie_outdoors/
The Attractions
winner is:
Farfield Mill
I dont know a lot about Farfield Mill but it looks great and definitely worth a visit. Anywhere that sells art and promotes books is fine by me. And there is a tearoom so that’s good!
Image Source: instagram.com/wildflower_weaver/
The Country Fairs
winner is:
Malham Show
Pretty close run thing, next year Kilnsey! I was hoping my local fair would win so I am going to be taking a million photos at the Reeth Show (current rank 5th) this year! Still, well done to the Malham Show.
Image Source: instagram.com/westmoorhousefarm/
Methodology
All information on hashtag numbers was compiled on the 26th January 2020
We looked purely at the top ranked hashtag that was applicable to the category we were ranking
Some entries had to be omitted due to double meanings on words which would have skewed the results. For example in the villages category ‘#dent’ has 320,000 attributions!
Data compiled is available here in top ten list format