Nidderdale AONB

Getting here

• Transdev Harrogate & District Service 24: runs seven days a week from Harrogate to Pateley Bridge through the villages of Lower Nidderdale including Hampsthwaite, Birstwith, Darley, Dacre, Summerbridge, Low Laithe and Wilsill. This is one of Yorkshire's prettiest bus services and a free booklet called "The Nidderdale Branch" has been produced to offer suggestions of things to see on your journey, special places to visit, a bit of history, and a range of splendid linear walks. It is available to download from the link above or hard copies are available from the bus company's offices, tourist information centres  and libraries throughout the area. Buses run hourly throughout the day on Mondays to Saturdays, with a more limited service on Sundays and on Friday and Saturday evenings.
• Fountains Abbey Shuttle Service 139: runs from Ripon to Fountains Abbey and surrounding villages.  This service runs Monday to Saturday all year round, and on Sundays and Bank Holidays during summer 2011. All these journeys connect at Ripon Bus Station with Transdev Harrogate & District Service 36 to/from Harrogate and Leeds.
• Dales & District service 139: links Ripon and the World Heritage Site of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal on Mondays to Saturdays.
• Dales & District service 159: runs along the eastern side of the AONB between Ripon, Masham, Jervaulx Abbey, Leyburn and Richmond. This service runs approximately every two hours on Mondays to Saturdays.
• Fountains Flyer service 812: runs from Easingwold and York to Ripon via Boroughbridge and enters the AONB in the East calling at Fountains Abbey and Pateley Bridge. It then continues past Coldstones Cut, through the village of Greenhow and over the moors into Wharfedale, terminating at Grassington. This service runs on Sundays and Bank Holidays (including Jubilee Tuesday) from 6th May until 21st October 2012.
• Eastern Dalesman service 820: runs from Otley (with connecting DalesBuses from Wakefield, Leeds, Dewsbury and Bradford) up the Washburn Valley and into Nidderdale to Pateley Bridge, Fountains Abbey and Ripon. From here the bus continues on to Masham, Jervaulx Abbey, Leyburn and Aysgarth Falls. This service runs on Sundays and Bank Holidays (including Jubilee Tuesday) from 6th May until 21st October 2012.
• Nidderdale Rambler service 825: runs from Harrogate (with connecting DalesBus from South Milford, Tadcaster and Wetherby) to Ripley and then through the AONB to Brimham Rocks and Pateley Bridge. From Pateley Bridge it continues up the Dale to Lofthouse and Middlesmoor, with one journey running to Scar House Reservoir. This service runs on Sundays and Bank Holidays (including Jubilee Tuesday) from 6th May until 21st October 2012, continuing on the first Sunday of each month throughout the winter.
  
  
  For further information and timetables visit the Traveline, Harrogate & District  or Dalesbus websites or ring traveline on 0871 200 22 33.