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North Yorkshire Moors and Coast
Marske Saltburn
by the Sea
England’s largest county, North Yorkshire is strewn with picturesque REDCAR &
villages, old market towns, stately homes and castles, historic CLEVELAND Brotton Loftus STAITHES
churches, romantic ruins, and so much more. Its coastline is Ormesby Skelton Easington Hinderwell
variously quaint, bustling and unspoilt. Its high, heather- Marton Guisborough Roxby
clad moorland is stirringly beautiful with great vistas Newton-under- GISBOROUGH Ellerby
Roseberry
where sheep graze peacefully. There are some purely Nunthorpe PRIORY Mickleby Lythe Sandsend
scenic stretches of dramatic road. This drive, which Guisborough Dunsley WHITBY
Moor
passes through the Howardian Hills and the centre Seamer GREAT AYTON
of the North York Moors National Park, before Stokesly Easby Kildale Castleton Ainthorpe Lealholm Aislaby Ruswarp
reaching the seaside, provides more than a glimpse Broughton s Esk Egton Sleights Sneaton Hawsker
of all these aspects. The trip takes the historic city Ingleby l l Westerdale Egton Bridge Robin
Greenhow
of York for its point of departure, with a walk Carlton H i Egton High GROSMONT Hood’s Bay
at the heart of this wonderful city. Westerdale Moor
Moor
d Goathland
n Nor th Y or k Moor s
C l e v e l a Farndale East Wheeldale
Chop Gate
Moor
Rosedale Abbey
Seven
NO R T H Y O RKSHIRE
Dove
Seph
Helmsley Hodge Lastingham Newton
Moor
Hawnby HUTTON- Cropton
Fadmoor Lockton
LE-HOLE
H a m b l e t o n H i l l s
Old Byland Pockley Kirkbymoorside
Middleton
RIEVAULX ABBEY HELMSLEY Sinnington
Cold Kirby PICKERING Thornton-le-
Dale
Scawton Marton
Harome Normanby Wilton
Above Sandsend, just north of Whitby, a small Oldstead Vale of Pick er ing
town with a long sandy beach, see p191 Oswaldkirk Nunnington
Kilburn
Kirby
Ampleforth Brawby Misperton
Stonegrave
Coxwold Great
ACTIVITIES Hovingham Barton Habton
le Street Rye Rillington
Oulston Yearsley
Climb York Minster’s 275 steps and look out over the delightful H o w a r d i a n H i l l s Amotherby
warren of medieval streets and buildings Coneysthorpe Old Malton
Crayke Terrington Malton
Enjoy a warm Yorkshire Fat Rascal – a traditional rich fruit and nut Easingwold YORKSHIRE CASTLE Settrington
HOWARD
scone – at Bettys Tea Rooms, York LAVENDER Menethorpe
Stillington Welburn North
Revisit Brideshead, actually Castle Howard, the palatial home used Sheriff Langton Grimston
as a setting in the TV series and film of Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel Hutton
Sutton- SUTTON Barton le
Cycle through beautiful Yorkshire forests near Pickering Tollerton on-the-Forest PARK Foss Flaxton Willow Leavening
Newton
Walk through time in historic buildings chronicling 400 years of upon Ouse Strensall Harton
rural history at Hutton-le-Hole, one of the country’s prettiest villages Derwent
Hop aboard a steam train on the Rail Trail over the Yorkshire moors Shipton Haxby
from Grosmont to charming Goathland, and stroll back Ouse Huntington Stockton
Rawcliffe Stamford
Bridge
Go deep-sea fishing in Whitby, a centre of Yorkshire coastal fishing
Upper Holtby Low Catton
Poppleton
Look down on Rievaulx Abbey from above – England’s foremost YORK
Cistercian abbey looks fabulous when seen from Rievaulx Terrace Acomb
CITY OF YORK
Walk along the Cleveland Way National Trail from the pretty
town of Helmsley
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