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Where and what is Keld?
Keld is a tiny village at the head of Swaledale, in magnificent country high up in the Pennines. It is 25 miles west of Richmond and 10 miles south-east of Kirby Stephen, but the footpaths are more famous than the roads. Just outside the village the Pennine Way crosses the Coast to Coast path. These two routes bring many long distance walkers to Keld. Today the local economy depends on hill farming and tourism, but there is still plenty of evidence of the extensive lead-mining that employed a much larger population a century and more ago.
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THE KELD CENTRE
