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HAPPY VALLEY

It’s been raining and blowing and sunning all at once, all day, with the most incredible huge crowded brilliant skies,” the poet Ted Hughes once wrote from the corner of Yorkshire he called home. Those “brilliant skies” belonged to Calderdale, the southernmost of the Yorkshire Dales’ valleys, which sits in the heart of England’s largest county.

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