St Mary's Church yard at Church Houses

Dale of the Daffodils.

Farndale is internationally famed for its show of wild daffodils which normally bloom at the end of March / beginning of April each year. Usually a little after the best of the domesticated garden daffodils. Attracting around 40,000 visitors to Farndale each year.

It is believed the daffodils were first brought to Farndale by some medieval monks from Rievaulx. These wild daffodils (narcissus pseudonarcissus) are also known by the old name Lenten Lily a name derived from the fact they normally bloom around Easter.

The Daffodil walk runs alongside the River Dove, for about 1½ miles between Low mill, where the North York Moors National Park has an information caravan during the Daffy season and High Mill a few hundred yards short of Church Houses.