The fells and valleys of Upper Wharfedale are overflowing with delights from which, once under their spell, very few can escape.
Upper Wharfedale Field Society works to increase the enjoyment derived from the area by deepening and widening understanding of its many and various elements.
Open any of the pages of this site and see what we do.
Meet us and experience it for yourself. You are very welcome to our talks or to join us.
Latest News & Articles
Covid 19 Situation
The Society welcomes new members and a membership application form can be found at the bottom of our Contacts page.
The Society has re-commenced our outdoor events and welcomes members back. If you wish to wear a face mask whilst joining in, then please do.
We have restarted our talks in the Grassington Devonshire Institute (GDI or Town Hall) in the usual venue of the Octagon Theatre, although the Main Hall may need to be used on occasion. Attendees are welcome to wear face masks, should they choose to.
We hope you keep fit and well and find interest in your excursions outdoors. To our existing members, welcome back.
Upper Wharfedale Field Society Committee
January 2022
The Young Explorer’s Bat Walk
A Bat walk with the young explorers
Botany Meeting 5th July 2022
A UWFS Botany visit to Cray Gill
St Aidan’s RSPB Reserve 30 Jun 2022
A UWFS Ornithology visit to RSPB St Aidan's
Covid 19 Situation
The Society welcomes new members, even if they are unable to enjoy the full benefits yet. The membership application form can be found at the bottom of our Contacts page
The Society has re-commenced our outdoor events and welcomes our members back. If you wish to wear a face mask whilst joining in, then please do.
Government guidance permitting, indoor lectures continue at Grassington Devonshire Institute (GDI or Town Hall). Face masks must now be worn and we are unable to offer refreshments after our lectures at that time.
With the rise of Omicron variant, the Committee has decided that Janaury 2022 lectures will be by zoom. Members will be emailed a link.
We hope you keep fit and well and find interest in your excursions outdoors. Until we meet again, good wishes.
Upper Wharfedale Field Society Committee
January 2022
Latest News & Articles
The Upper Wharfedale Field Society is constantly working hard behind the scenes. See what is happening here.
Field Trip to Askrigg Mill Gill and Ballowfield 27 July 2022
UWFS Geology group trip to Askrigg Mill Gill and Ballowfield
Botany Meeting 2nd August 2022
Despite the gloomy forecast, 12 members met and
News 29 July 22
News from the Upper Wharfedale Field Society
Special Interest Groups
The Upper Wharfedale Field Society covers a wide range of special interest groups.
LOCAL HISTORY & VERNACULAR BUILDINGS
In the Yorkshire Dales, local history and its vernacular buildings are inextricably linked. We have especial interest in all local history, through all aspects of industry including farming, social history from peasant to aristocrat, early trading, tracks and coach routes.
GEOLOGY
The earth formations and movements of the past have created an area of outstanding natural beauty. The most recent apparent dominant force is glaciation which has created the landscape which we see today, in particular the Upper Wharfedale Valley, but there is much more to the valleys, hills and rocks of the Yorkshire Dales.
BOTANY
The Botany Group holds its meetings every other Tuesday from end of April to mid August usually for the whole day. The meetings vary from those sites very close to Grassington eg Kilnsey park, the banks of the Wharfe, to further afield e.g. the west coast for dune systems, reserves in Cumbria and our National Natures Reserves as around Ingleborough. In this way we can become familiar with plants that are not on our doorstep and sites away from limestone grassland.
ARCHAEOLOGY
There are a considerable number of archaeological sites in Upper Wharfedale and Archaeology is regularly represented the Society’s talks programme . In recent years we have had guest speakers from Bradford University and York Archaeological Trust as well as presentations on field work being carried out locally in Wharfedale, Nidderdale and Ingleborough.
“The fells and valleys of Upper Wharfedale are overflowing with delights from which, once under their spell, very few can escape.”
Upper Wharfedale Field Society
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