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    Car-free travel highlights  Car-free travel highlight
    From Easter to October why not leave your car at home at the weekend and take our shuttle bus up to Malham Tarn? It has a satellite-triggered audio tour on board and carries several bikes.
     
    Walking  By foot
    The Pennine Way passes through this estate for 6 miles from north to south taking in some of the finest and most remote Yorkshire Dales' scenery.
     
    Cycling  By bike
    Malham Tarn and village lie on the Yorkshire Dales Cycleway, a signed on-road cycle route which passes from Airton (2½ miles away) in the south to Stainforth and Settle (7½ and 6½ miles away) in the east.

    At both places it links with the Pennine Cycleway, NCN route 68, which goes from Derby to Berwick upon Tweed.

    Several bikes can be carried on the Malham Tarn Shuttle Bus.
     
    Bus  By bus
    From Skipton, service 210/843 and from Settle, service 580/210, alight Malham village, about 2 miles from Malham Tarn. Weekend services pass Skipton railway station.

    The National Trust run a shuttle bus to Malham Tarn and Malham village every weekend and bank holiday from Easter to October. It travels between Ilkley, Addingham, Skipton bus station and railway station, Settle and Malham Tarn.

    Sponsored by Skipton Building Society, it has a satellite-triggered audio tour on board and can carry several bikes.
     
    Train  By train
    Settle railway station 7 miles and Skipton railway station 19 miles on the very picturesque Settle-Carlisle line.
     
    Road directions  By road
    From Skipton, take the A65 to Gargrave, then follow signs to Malham. From Settle, follow signs to Langcliffe or Malham.

    A minor road crosses the Malham Tarn estate to the north of Malham Tarn. Join it from the B6160 below Kettlewell.
     
    Car parks  Car parks

    Yorkshire Dales National Park - Malham village (not NT)
    OS: SD899626, pay & display, suitable for coaches

    Water Sinks - Malham Tarn
    OS: SD893658, free parking

    Tarn Moss - Malham Tarn (layby)
    OS: SD884673, free parking
     
    Ordnance Survey map  Ordnance Survey maps
    Explorer OL2: Yorkshire Dales - S&W areas
    Landranger 98: Wensleydale & Upper Wharfedale
     

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    Malham Tarn Shuttle Bus

    The Malham Tarn shuttle bus is kindly supported by Skipton Building Society
     
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