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The Stainmore Gap

The Stainmore Gap is a wide break in the Pennine Hills which lies between the Yorkshire Dales National Park (to the south) and Teesdale and the Northern Dales (to the north).

The A66 runs through the gap, which as a (relatively) low lying* route through the northern Pennines has served as an important communication channel between Brough and the Eden Valley in the west and the Vale of Mowbray and Teeside in the east.

Places in and around the Stainmore Gap include the Stainmore Forest, North Stainmore and South Stainmore, the village of Bowes and the Stang Forest (which overlooks the south eastern end of the gap).

[* = N.B. Although described as a "gap" the western side of this break in the hills (near the settlements of North Stainmore and South Stainmore themselves) is actually quite high in elevation and it here presents to the traveller as a high moorland pass..]

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