Middlesbrough - Stockton-on-Tees - Darlington - Richmond - Reeth - Muker - Keld - Buttertubs Pass - Hawes
Summer Sundays and Bank Holidays
We hope to restart this service in Summer 2021.
Click here for details of other buses in Swaledale.
This scenic bus route, featured on BBC4's All Aboard! The Country Bus,
links the North East with scenic Swaledale and Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park,
connecting at Hawes with buses to Settle, Castle Bolton and Leyburn.
You can preview your journey on YouTube on BBC4's All Aboard the Country Bus!
Click here for details of other buses in Swaledale.
This scenic bus route, featured on BBC4's All Aboard! The Country Bus,
links the North East with scenic Swaledale and Wensleydale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park,
connecting at Hawes with buses to Settle, Castle Bolton and Leyburn.
You can preview your journey on YouTube on BBC4's All Aboard the Country Bus!
Every Summer Sunday and Bank Holiday Swaledale DalesBus 830 links Teesside, Darlington and Richmond with some of the most stunning landscape in the British Isles through the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
Perfect for walking or sightseeing in the Yorkshire Dales – England’s favourite National Park.
There’s no need to book in advance, tickets are available from the driver, so you can simply turn up and go!
Catch Swaledale DalesBus 830 direct from the centres of Middlesbrough, Stockton and Darlington (picking up at Darlington rail station and all X66/X26 bus stops) to Richmond, then travel through Swaledale, regarded by many people as one of the most sublimely beautiful of all the Yorkshire Dales – through the iconic villages of Reeth (National Park Centre) , Gunnerside and Muker, to the remote hamlet of Keld at the head of the Dale, close to several waterfalls and perfect starting point for hikes along either the Pennine Way or Wainwright’s Coast to Coast Path – pick up the bus at any point down the Dale for your return journey.
The bus then ascends one of the most spectacular mountains passes in the British Isles – Buttertubs, of Tour de France fame. There are breathtaking views from the bus windows down Swaledale or, once over the 526 metre summit, across to Yorkshire’s famous Three Peaks, before descending to the busy market town of Hawes.
Hawes’s many attractions include the wonderful Dales Countryside Museum with the celebrated Hartley-Ingleby collection of lead mining and farming artefacts from the Northern Dales, and Wensleydale Creamery, where the world-famous Wensleydale cheese, rescued from oblivion by the legendary Kit Calvert, is made. There is a visitor centre where you can see cheese being made and a restaurant and shop. Hardraw Force, England’s highest single drop above ground waterfall, is little more than a mile’s easy walk away.
You can spend a full day in Hawes, or continue on Wensleydale DalesBus 857 to Castle Bolton or Leyburn; or for a taste of Yorkshire’s Three Peaks country take Ribblehead DalesBus 831 to Snaizeholme (for the noted red squirrel sanctuary), Ribblehead (famous for its great viaduct), Horton in Ribblesdale and the busy town of Settle where the energetic can walk to the summit of Castlebergh, a rocky crag just behind the town’s market place and a notable viewpoint across Ribblesdale to the Bowland Fells of Lancashire.
Buy a Dales Rover ticket from the bus driver for a day’s unlimited travel on the Sunday and Bank Holiday DalesBus network.
Dales Freedom Rover: Adult: £10 Group: £18 (for any group of up to two adults and three children)
Concessionary bus passes for the elderly and disabled are not valid for free travel on Swaledale DalesBus 830, except for outward journeys on from Middlesbrough, Stockton and Darlington. Standard fares to a maximum of £3 single/ £5 day ticket are payable by passholders.
Arriva All Zones Day and Period Tickets and North East Explorer Tickets are only valid as far as Reeth.
Single and day return fares are also available.
Swaledale Shuttle service 30 operates all year on Mondays to Saturdays between Richmond, Reeth and Muker.
DalesBuses 830 & 857 are managed by Dales and Bowland Community Interest Company
and operated by Arriva North East 0344 800 44 11 as part of the DalesBus network with
financial support from Friends of the Dales, Bolton Castle, Muker Village Stores & Tea Shop B&B and individual donors.
Perfect for walking or sightseeing in the Yorkshire Dales – England’s favourite National Park.
There’s no need to book in advance, tickets are available from the driver, so you can simply turn up and go!
Catch Swaledale DalesBus 830 direct from the centres of Middlesbrough, Stockton and Darlington (picking up at Darlington rail station and all X66/X26 bus stops) to Richmond, then travel through Swaledale, regarded by many people as one of the most sublimely beautiful of all the Yorkshire Dales – through the iconic villages of Reeth (National Park Centre) , Gunnerside and Muker, to the remote hamlet of Keld at the head of the Dale, close to several waterfalls and perfect starting point for hikes along either the Pennine Way or Wainwright’s Coast to Coast Path – pick up the bus at any point down the Dale for your return journey.
The bus then ascends one of the most spectacular mountains passes in the British Isles – Buttertubs, of Tour de France fame. There are breathtaking views from the bus windows down Swaledale or, once over the 526 metre summit, across to Yorkshire’s famous Three Peaks, before descending to the busy market town of Hawes.
Hawes’s many attractions include the wonderful Dales Countryside Museum with the celebrated Hartley-Ingleby collection of lead mining and farming artefacts from the Northern Dales, and Wensleydale Creamery, where the world-famous Wensleydale cheese, rescued from oblivion by the legendary Kit Calvert, is made. There is a visitor centre where you can see cheese being made and a restaurant and shop. Hardraw Force, England’s highest single drop above ground waterfall, is little more than a mile’s easy walk away.
You can spend a full day in Hawes, or continue on Wensleydale DalesBus 857 to Castle Bolton or Leyburn; or for a taste of Yorkshire’s Three Peaks country take Ribblehead DalesBus 831 to Snaizeholme (for the noted red squirrel sanctuary), Ribblehead (famous for its great viaduct), Horton in Ribblesdale and the busy town of Settle where the energetic can walk to the summit of Castlebergh, a rocky crag just behind the town’s market place and a notable viewpoint across Ribblesdale to the Bowland Fells of Lancashire.
Buy a Dales Rover ticket from the bus driver for a day’s unlimited travel on the Sunday and Bank Holiday DalesBus network.
Dales Freedom Rover: Adult: £10 Group: £18 (for any group of up to two adults and three children)
Concessionary bus passes for the elderly and disabled are not valid for free travel on Swaledale DalesBus 830, except for outward journeys on from Middlesbrough, Stockton and Darlington. Standard fares to a maximum of £3 single/ £5 day ticket are payable by passholders.
Arriva All Zones Day and Period Tickets and North East Explorer Tickets are only valid as far as Reeth.
Single and day return fares are also available.
Swaledale Shuttle service 30 operates all year on Mondays to Saturdays between Richmond, Reeth and Muker.
DalesBuses 830 & 857 are managed by Dales and Bowland Community Interest Company
and operated by Arriva North East 0344 800 44 11 as part of the DalesBus network with
financial support from Friends of the Dales, Bolton Castle, Muker Village Stores & Tea Shop B&B and individual donors.