Dentdale Music and Beer Festival
Twenty-five acoustic acts from folk to blues fill the pubs and barns of Dentdale across a long June weekend, washed down with locally crafted and Scottish ales in one of the most remote and beautiful limestone valleys in the Yorkshire Dales.
A rare Dales village that earns its reputation honestly: the cobbled streets, the Grade I church with marble floors, two genuine pubs (one a Good Beer Guide stalwart since 1977), a working village shop, and walkers on the Dales Way all give Dent a lived-in warmth that pure showpieces rarely manage.
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