Farndale is a valley and community in North Yorkshire, England, which is known for the daffodils which flower each spring along a 7-mile (11 km) stretch of the River Dove.

Farndale is an isolated, scattered agricultural community with traditional Yorkshire dry stone walls.

The valley is popular with walkers due to its famous wild daffodils, which can be seen around Easter time all along the banks of the River Dove.

To protect the daffodils the majority of Farndale north of Lowna was created a Local Nature Reserve in 1955.

Farndale is home to two hamlets; Church Houses at the top of the valley and Low Mill further down.

Farndale is a valley within the North York Moors, it is surrounded by some of the wildest moorland in England.

The southern boundary of the Farndale Parishes are along Harland Beck and Shortsha Beck (across Lowna Lund),[9] although the Gillamoor to Hutton-le-Hole road is considered as the boundary for all other purposes, south of this the dale continues but changes its name to Douthwaitedale, though the Tabular Hills until it reaches Keldhome then Kirkby Mills just east of Kirkbymoorside.

[26] St Mary's Church, Farndale is a Grade II listed, built in 1831 by William Stonehouse and restored and extended in 1907–14 by Temple Moore.

The annual Farndale Agricultural Show[33] which is held on the Summer Bank Holiday Monday in late August and is a popular local event.

The ship's bell, still bearing evidence of enemy action, is in the bar of the Feversham Arms Inn, Farndale.

[51][better source needed] In 1932 the Kingston upon Hull Corporation bought a large area of land in Upper Farndale in the North York Moor, c. 2,000 hectares.

The Corporation had a plan to create a large reservoir behind a constructed earth embankment at Church Houses , and then using gravitation through a series of pipes/aqueducts bring a safe and reliable water supply down to Hull (c. 50 miles away).

The plans also involved a second stage with weirs constructed in the neighbouring dales of Rosedale and Bransdale (and possibly Westerdale?)

The reservoir was to be 2½ miles long, cover a total of 400 acres and hold 8,000 million gallons of water.

[53] Henry Harwood Flintoff who lived in Farndale at the time, was awarded the Edward Medal later exchanged for a George Cross for an act of heroism where he went to the assistance of farmer John Atkinson of Olive House, Farndale and saved him from a bull.

[59] The 1975 Film, All Creatures Great and Small starring Simon Ward and Anthony Hopkins, included locations in Farndale.

[65] Accidental Farmer, a pilot for BBC TV starring Ashley Jensen was partly filmed in Farndale, June / July 2010.

[68] Alan Ridout wrote a work called Farndale Dances for solo Piccolo in 1992 consisting 5 Movements: Down the Dale, Sylvio the Pheasant, Whistling Walker, The Stream and Up the Hill.

[69] Songwriter Graham Miles[70] wrote a folk song called Farndale Daffodils.