Guide · 7 min read
Yorkshire by train: days out without a car
Six days built entirely around stations, steps and a timetable.
The network is better than people assume, particularly west of Leeds and north of York.
Saltaire puts you a five-minute walk from a mill full of Hockneys. Ilkley puts you twenty minutes from open moor.
Knaresborough arrives across a viaduct above the gorge, which is the best entrance to any town in the county.
Places in this guide
Arts & heritage · Leeds & West Yorkshire
Salts Mill
A Victorian mill turned gallery, bookshop and very good lunch.
Walk & landscape · Leeds & West Yorkshire
Ilkley Moor
The moor of the song, twenty minutes above a spa town.
Market town · Harrogate & Nidderdale
Knaresborough
A gorge town with a viaduct, a castle and rowing boats below.
Heritage · York
York Minster
The one building in Yorkshire everybody should stand under once.