Dalesman is a British monthly regional magazine, based in Skipton, 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.

Along with factual features and interviews, there are also short stories, puzzles, guided walks, plus numerous jokes and cartoons, some in Yorkshire dialect.

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, and cartoonists Tony Husband and Karl Dixon.

[9] Initially called The Yorkshire Dalesman, the magazine was founded in 1939 by former Leeds journalist Harry J. Scott, with the first edition published in April of that year.

He ran the magazine from the front room of his home in the small Dales village of Clapham, North Yorkshire.

[2] Writing in the first issue, Scott remarked: "Although it may require a word of explanation, the appearance of the first number of a magazine devoted to the Yorkshire Dales needs no apology.

By now, the circulation had risen to 13,000 and Scott wrote in March 1948: "It has been a mark of the pleasant friendly bond which has always existed between this magazine and its readers and almost from our first appearance our title was shortened in conversation, in letters and over bookstall counters to "The Dalesman".

Mitchell remembers meeting the "tweed-clad, pipe-smoking" Scott in the offices of the Craven Herald newspaper in Skipton, shortly before he joined the magazine.