Guide · 5 min read
A rainy day in Yorkshire that still feels special
Gardens in drizzle, mills full of art, and tearooms built for weather like this.
Yorkshire is not a place that shuts when it rains; it is a place that was designed around rain.
Harlow Carr is planted for this climate and half empty in a shower. Salts Mill gives you a gallery, a bookshop and lunch under one Victorian roof.
Finish where the windows steam up. That is the whole trick.
Places in this guide
Garden · Harrogate & Nidderdale
RHS Garden Harlow Carr
Sixty-odd acres of Yorkshire planting, at its best in bad weather.
Arts & heritage · Leeds & West Yorkshire
Salts Mill
A Victorian mill turned gallery, bookshop and very good lunch.
Bakery & tearoom · Whitby & the Coast
Botham's of Whitby
Fifth-generation bakers and a tearoom that has not chased fashion.