From there it flows south south-east to where it joins the River Rye in the Vale of Pickering near the village of Salton.

Both the River Dove and Hodge Beck are partly swallowed by the local limestone aquifer and issue again further down the valley.

[4] Between Church Houses and Low Mill in Farndale, the River Dove is popular with walkers due to its picturesque setting.

The banks of the river are known for their wild daffodils which are rumoured to have been planted by monks from nearby Rievaulx Abbey.

[5][6] William Wordsworth's poem, She dwelt among the untrodden ways from the Lucy series of poems refers to the eponymous Lucy living close to the "springs of Dove", a possible reference to the source of the river, but could equally pertain to the either the River Dove in Derbyshire or in Westmorland, as Wordsworth knew of all three of them.