nature · Yorkshire Dales, England
Swaledale
A filming location from Wuthering Heights in Yorkshire Dales.
Richard Webb · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The scene
The drystone-walled valley around Low Row gives the film its brooding, timeless Yorkshire, all stone barns, sheep pasture and open sky.
How to visit
The B6270 threads the length of Swaledale from Richmond up to Keld, past field barns and stone villages; it is one of the Dales' great slow drives or cycle routes.
- Keld sits where the Pennine Way meets the Coast to Coast path.
- Muker and Gunnerside are picture-perfect Dales villages en route.
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Good to know
- What was filmed at Swaledale?
- The drystone-walled valley around Low Row gives the film its brooding, timeless Yorkshire, all stone barns, sheep pasture and open sky.
- Can you visit Swaledale?
- The B6270 threads the length of Swaledale from Richmond up to Keld, past field barns and stone villages; it is one of the Dales' great slow drives or cycle routes.
- Where is Swaledale?
- Swaledale is a real filming location in Yorkshire Dales.
More to film-spot in Yorkshire Dales
Healaugh Crag
The gritstone ridge above Healaugh in Swaledale is where Cathy waits for Heathcliff, looking down over the film's Wuthering Heights.
Old Gang Smelting Mill
The ruined lead-smelting mill on the moor below Healaugh Crag stands in for the estate's weathered, wind-scoured outbuildings.