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Yorkshire, one good place at a time.

Everything here is chosen, written up and kept honest. No sponsored slots, no filler.

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Heritage & landscape · Yorkshire Dales

Bolton Abbey

Priory ruins, stepping stones and riverside paths for every pace.

Landscape · Harrogate & Nidderdale

Brimham Rocks

Gritstone stacks balanced like something left behind on purpose.

Walk & landscape · Leeds & West Yorkshire

Ilkley Moor

The moor of the song, twenty minutes above a spa town.

Walk & landscape · Yorkshire Dales

Malham Cove

A curved limestone wall 80 metres high, with pavement on the top.

Village & coast · Whitby & the Coast

Robin Hood's Bay

A smugglers' village poured down a cliff into the sea.

Village inn · North York Moors

The Star Inn at Harome

A thatched Moors inn that put this corner of Yorkshire on the food map.

Arts & landscape · Wakefield & Calderdale

Yorkshire Sculpture Park

Five hundred acres of parkland with world-class sculpture in it.

Nature · helmsley-ryedale

Birch Wood Nature Reserve

A secluded woodland reserve north of Helmsley with veteran trees, seasonal flowers and wildlife.

Hotel · grassington-upper-wharfedale

Black Horse Hotel

A 17th-century coaching inn close to the square with en-suite rooms, a bar and restaurant.

Heritage · helmsley-ryedale

Helmsley Castle

A castle above the River Rye whose surviving remains trace the site from medieval fortress to Tudor mansion and later ruin.

Self catering · grassington-upper-wharfedale

Long Ashes Park

A holiday park at Threshfield with lodges, glamping options and on-site leisure facilities.

Garden · grassington-upper-wharfedale

Parcevall Hall Gardens

Hillside gardens above Skyreholme with paths, planting and a tea room in a quiet Dales setting.

Heritage · helmsley-ryedale

Rievaulx Abbey

Extensive Cistercian abbey ruins in the Rye valley with a museum, audio interpretation and café.

Hotel · helmsley-ryedale

The Black Swan

A historic inn on Helmsley’s market place combining pub, restaurant and guest rooms in a group of buildings from different periods.

Hotel · helmsley-ryedale

The Feathers Hotel

A central coaching-inn-style hotel on the market square with rooms, dining and the Pickwick Bar.

Pub · grassington-upper-wharfedale

The Foresters Arms

A traditional village pub, restaurant and B&B serving pub food and local ales in central Grassington.

Pub · grassington-upper-wharfedale

The Fountaine Inn

A village inn in Linton with pub food, a bar and five guest rooms.

Hotel · helmsley-ryedale

The Pheasant Hotel

A country hotel overlooking Harome’s village pond with individually furnished rooms, dining spaces and an indoor pool.

Hotel · helmsley-ryedale

The Royal Oak Hotel

A family-run pub and small hotel on the market place with five en-suite rooms and classic pub food.

Shop · grassington-upper-wharfedale

Town End Farm Shop & Tearoom

A family-run farm shop and tearoom in Malhamdale selling local produce, meat, deli goods and food from the farm.