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      • Craven Connection Buses 580 581 583 75 81 82
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Bus Services in the Yorkshire Dales

Most bus services in the Yorkshire Dales run year-round, as listed below.

The main all-year services are listed below, including key connecting buses from the surrounding area, grouped by area with links to further details. Note that many services operate in more than one area, but are only listed once. Most services have links to timetable details (some of these links are to external sites, and some are to PDF files). The three letter codes indicate the main operator of the service.

Click here for details of extra buses for the summer season, most of which start from Easter Sunday.

​Click here for the network map (PDF file), which also includes the summer seasonal services.

Harrogate/Nidderdale Area
24  Harrogate - Pateley Bridge Daily HBC Details
36  Leeds - Harrogate - Ripon Daily HBC Details
59  Harrogate - Bolton Bridge - Skipton Saturdays HBC Details
A2  Bradford - Leeds Bradford Airport - Harrogate Daily FLY Details
X52  Otley - Harrogate Mon-Sat HCT Details
   Harrogate Area Services   Various Details
   Nidderdale Area Services   Various Details
  
Skipton/Airedale/Wharfedale Area
14  Skipton - Embsay Mon-Sat NYC Details
X84  Leeds - Otley - Ilkley Daily FLS Details
64  Ilkley - Skipton Mon-Sat KBC Details
66  Keighley - Skipton Daily KBC Details
72/72A  Skipton - Grassington - Buckden Daily KBC/NYC Details
72B  Hebden - Grassington - Buckden Mon-Sat UWV Details
74A  Ilkley - Bolton Abbey - Grassington - Hebden Mon/Wed/Fri NYC Details
74  York - Harrogate - Ilkley - Bolton Abbey - Grassington Sat YCL Details
210/211  Skipton - Malham Mon-Fri NYC Details
75  Skipton - Malham Sat LON Details
280  Preston - Clitheroe - Skipton Daily STM Details
580  Skipton - Settle  (connects with service 581) Mon-Sat LON Details
864  Bradford - Ilkley - Skipton - Malham Sun KBC Details
873  Ilkley - Bolton Abbey - Embsay - Skipton Sun KBC Details
874  Wetherby - Leeds - Otley - Ilkley - Grassington - Buckden Sun YPL Details
M6  Burnley - Nelson - Colne - Barnoldswick - Skipton Daily BBC Details
  
Ripon/Wensleydale/Swaledale Area
30  Catterick - Richmond - Reeth - Keld Mon-Sat LWB Details
70  Ripon - Thirsk - Northallerton Mon-Sat HOD Details
73  Northallerton - Bedale Mon-Sat PRO Details
113  Garsdale Station - Hardraw - Hawes - Gayle Mon-Sat LWB Details
138 138A  Ripon - Masham Mon-Sat PRO Details
139  Ripon - Fountains Abbey Mon/Thu/Sat PRO Details
144  Bedale - Masham Tues/Wed/Fri PRO Details
155  Bedale - Leyburn Mon-Sat HOD Details
156  Catterick - Leyburn - Hawes - Gayle Mon-Sat LWB Details
856  Northallerton - Bedale - Leyburn - Hawes - Gayle Sun PRO Details
159  Ripon - Leyburn - Richmond Mon-Sat HOD Details
RR1  Richmond - Catterick - Northallerton Wed LWB Details
   Bedale - Northallerton (demand responsive) Wed BCM Details
LWB  Upper Wensleydale/Upper Swaledale Area Demand Responsive Bus Services Mon-Sat LWB Details
LWB  Hawes - Snaizeholme (for red squirrels) Daily LWB Details
  
Western Dales Area
11  Clitheroe - Slaidburn - Settle - Horton in Ribblesdale Mon-Sat NYC Details
81/82  Kirkby Lonsdale - Lancaster (connects with services 581/583) Daily LON Details
106  Kendal - Shap Mon-Sat STC Details
106  Kendal - Shap - Penrith Tues/Fri from 3 Oct LON Details
561  Appleby - Orton - Kendal Wed WFC Details
563  Kirkby Stephen Station - Kirkby Stephen - Appleby - Penrith Mon-Sat STC Details
567  Ingleton - Kirkby Lonsdale - Kendal Mon-Sat STC Details
570  Ravenstonedale - Shap - Tebay - Kendal Thu until 25 Sept CCC Details
571  Brough - Kirkby Stephen - Kendal Mon until 29 Sept CCC Details
572  Ravenstonedale - Kirkby Stephen - Barnard Castle Wed until 24 Sept CCC Details
581  Kirkby Lonsdale - Ingleton - Settle(connects with 580) Mon-Sat LON Details
582  High Bentham - Hornby;(connects with 82) Wed/Thu NYC Details
583  Kirkby Lonsdale - Ingleton - Bentham Mon-Sat LON Details
DR06  North Craven Village Bus Mon-Fri NYC Details
S1  Kirkby Stephen / Dent Station - Dent - Sedbergh - Kendal Mon-Sat WDB/WFC Details
S5  Sedbergh - Kirkby Stephen - Kendal Fri WDB Details

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