Dalesman

Dalesman

A typical front cover
Editor	Adrian Braddy
Former editors	See editors section below
Frequency	Monthly
Circulation	28,217
Publisher	Country Publications
Year founded	1939
Country	United Kingdom
Based in	Skipton
Language	English
Website	www.dalesman.co.uk
ISSN	0011-5800

Dalesman is a British monthly regional magazine, based in Skipton, and serving the English county of Yorkshire. Its first edition was published in March 1939, under the original title of The Yorkshire Dalesman: A Monthly Magazine of Dales' Life and Industry. Although originally only serving the Yorkshire Dales, the magazine was soon expanded to cover the whole county of Yorkshire, with a particular focus on the countryside and over the years it has become a northern institution. It remains the biggest selling regional consumer magazine in the UK and Yorkshire's best selling magazine.

The magazine celebrates the people, landscapes and heritage of England's biggest county. Dalesman covers the whole of Yorkshire, though it has a rural focus that takes in the Yorkshire Dales, North York Moors, Yorkshire Wolds and Yorkshire coast, along with the county capital of York. Each issue contains stories about the people and places that make Yorkshire unique, articles on crafts, history and nature, alongside photographs and paintings of the stunning Yorkshire scenery. As well as factual features and interviews, there are also short stories, puzzles, guided walks, plus numerous jokes and cartoons, some in Yorkshire dialect. The magazine is proud of its reader loyalty and participation, characteristics which shine through in the magazine’s thriving Readers’ Club.

Many famous names have written for Dalesman, including J. B. Priestley, Ella Pontefract, Bill Cowley and Alan Bennett. Current regular contributors include "Bard of Barnsley" Ian McMillan, Nicholas Rhea, who wrote the Constable books that the TV series Heartbeat was based on, Ashley Jackson (artist), and cartoonists Tony Husband and Karl Dixon.