Can you help me identify this village in the Yorkshire Dales

[Bealtaine23]

About 40 years ago, when I was about 12, I went on holidays with my friend and her parents to the Lake District and the Yorkshire Dales. We drove around a lot but one memory I have is driving into a tiny village in the Dales, and feeling like we might not be able to get out as the road was so narrow - I think it was a bridge. I think the village was very self-contained, not sure how to describe it but like entering a farm, not with houses on the road into it. I have a feeling we came down to it from a hill and could see it. But not sure.
And that’s about all I can remember. I’d love to find it again as it stuck in my head. We may have been travelling to Haworth from the Lake District but taken a scenic route. But that may be a red herring.
Any suggestions for me - it’s vague I know!

The packhorse bridge goes to the river, it's on the other side of the main road from the village - it is very very narrow though!

Has anyone suggested Burnsall yet?

@Tarmacadamia yes I know that’s why I mentioned allowing for distorted memories, if you came up from settle the back way you’d come on smaller roads with double stone walls, cross the bridge and go up the steep hill then it’s a very short section on the main road in to the village which she may not remember. Agree if you came up the main road from settle it wouldn’t fit.

It’s narrow alright, took my car across there once, won’t be doing it again 😂

Exactly. Otley may be in Yorkshire, but it is not on the edge of the Dales!

It also simply doesn't fit the OP's description. I can't think of a small bridge in/around Otley that would be anything like she describes.

Of course you're right - I wasn't thinking that you could approach it from the river side, but you might if you were having a drive around. I always breathe in whenever I drive over it 😂

@Tarmacadamia I breathe in when I walk over it 😂

@Tarmacadamia It really isn't a long way at all! It's right on the edge of West Yorkshire, bordering North Yorkshire. I drive through it and past the "Welcome to the county of North Yorkshire" nearly every day and into the dales! Ffs

@Tarmacadamia Under that sign, is another one saying "Yorkshire Dales National Park!"

If you were near Haworth, might it have been the hamlet of Newsholme? Although you would have had to turn the car round to get out. Not the Dales, but you did say you were on the way to Haworth.

Whatever! This is a daft thing to argue about. Otley isn't in the Yorkshire Dales.

Starbotton in Wharfedale or Litton?

I’ve looked at all the new suggestions, thanks to all of you! It’s been great armchair-travelling through all the villages (& towns 😉)
That bridge near Stainforth fits my ‘breathe in’ memory really well - except I’ve no memory of trees but it was 40 years ago so aside from distorted memory, trees may easily have grown/matured in 40 years! But Stainforth itself doesn’t feel right. I think Dent fits most with my mental image of the village itself. We stayed in Ambleside and possibly went that way to Haworth?

Otley is in the Yorkshire Dales. It’s in Wharfedale. Leeds is a city in the Yorkshire Dales! In Airedale. Dales do not have to be small or rural.

Otley is not in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, which is perhaps what you mean. You have to get about ten miles further on to addingham before you enter the national park.

Dent is a very cool place. Very atmospheric. Do go and tell us if it’s the right one!

Leeds is not in the Yorkshire Dales! 😂

Dale is just a word for valley, but not every valley/dale that happens to be in Yorkshire is in the "Yorkshire Dales", even if you do generously extend the boundaries beyond the national park.

E.g. Calderdale, Rosedale, Denby Dale... they might be valleys/dales, and they might be in Yorkshire, but they are definitely not in the "Yorkshire Dales".

It’s fair to say there isn’t an exact line. But the definition of dales in the Yorkshire Dales includes a very definite list of dales - Airedale being one of them (source in Malhamdale as the Aire rises at Malham cove), the biggest and most populated, Wharfedale being another. Nidderdale, for example, is not in the Yorkshire Dales geographical area or in the Yorkshire Dales National Park as instead it is designated as the Nidderdale AOONB. Yorkshire Dales do not include Dales south of Airedale, so places like Calderdale are not included, and you may well not consider the lower reaches of Airedale in keeping with what you’d consider the “Dales”, but Otley, Leeds/many parts of the city conurbation absolutely lie geographically in Airedale, part of the Yorkshire Dales. (Different entirely to the Yorkshire Dales National Park which has a defined boundary).

The internet agrees - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Yorkshire_Dales
Here’s the definition that solidly puts Otley in there https://www.yorkshire-dales.com/

Hawes

Whatever definition you use, Leeds is not in "The Yorkshire Dales". Otley might be debatable, fair enough if you want to include it, but Leeds is not and I'm happy to die on that hill! The fact that it's on the Aire is neither here nor there.

Would you include Boston Spa or Tadcaster as part of Yorkshire Dales because they happen to be on the Wharfe and therefore technically in Wharfedale? No. And the same goes for all the other towns that happen to be on rivers that flow out of the Yorkshire Dales.

(Also, Otley is on the Wharfe, in Wharfedale, not Airedale.)

Otley is not in the Yorkshire Dales and is nothing like the OP describes. As for Leeds, fucking hell 🤣🤣

"It’s fair to say there isn’t an exact line."

Nup. There's a line, see map as provided by The Yorkshire Dales organisation.

My immediate thought was that you’ve driven through the stone arch at Bolton Abbey, then further up Wharfedale you’ve dropped down into Burnsall. There’s a view of the village and bridge as you come down by the Fell Hotel.

Sorry to revive a zombie (does this count as a zombie?), but I was just reading about a little village called hutton-le-hole and it reminded me of this post. Did you manage to work out where it was @Bealtaine23?

Bit late to this but check out Gunnerside or Thwaite, or for the "farm feeling", Angram.

If it is tiny and like you get into it, could it have been Winterburn? It's a tiny place and you get to other windy roads when you go through it.