Site Details
Address
South-east of West End
Harrogate/Skipton
North Yorkshire
Grid Reference
415774 - 456776

Local authority
Harrogate BC

Sport England region
Yorkshire

Disciplines
Slalmon, white water racing, freestyle, recreation

Competitions and events
The site has held regional championships or events and an inter-regional standard of competition or event , and is sustainable in that it is in a location which provides the support facilities/services  necessary for that level of competition or event

• Slalom - National premier events held every yea
• River races - National 'A' events held every year.

Training
The site has held regional team training or events, or individual elite training or participation for that or any of its disciplines, and is sustainable in that it is in a location which provides the support facilities/services necessary for that level of training or event.

• British and English slalom teams have trained here once and white water racing team 6 times.

Scarcity
The site is the only facility or resource for participation in that sport or any of its disciplines, or one of a limited number of facilities, in that region.

• Tapped site (ie release from reservoir generates "flood" for events). Only such site in Yorkshire region.

Heritage
A heritiage site is one which has been used continually or a for a long time by that sport and which cannot be recreated in a different location.

• In use for 15 years.

Non-competitive users
The site is important to the non-competitive parts of that sport.

• Half of calendar is devoted to non-competitive use.

Facilities strategy
The site has been identified as of international or national importance in that sport’s strategic planning documents.

• BCU Facilities Strategy 1999 - 2004 - identified as performance cenre.

Physical characteristics
Identification of those characteristics, which if lost, would jeopardise the quality of the site.

• Tapped upland dales river - approx 3 Km length of narrow river.

Number of users
The site is important because of the numbers of people using it from any level of that sport

• Around 8,000 users between April and October (mainly in summer).

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