People think of the Yorkshire Dales as all rolling hills, sheep, farmhouses and craggy mountains, but that’s not the full picture. North Yorkshire also has an industrial history. Not far east from the quaint stone shops of Grassington, you can visit the derelict Hebden lead mines, which flank Hebden Beck... [see more]
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Yorkshire Welcomes All-comers
I moved to Yorkshire in 1987, in my early twenties. I’d visited several times already, and thought of Yorkshire as just another English county full of northerners. I was wrong. Apparently, Yorkshire people are very patriotic—if you can be patriotic about a county... [see more]
Ingleton Waterfalls
The Ingleton Waterfalls trail is in a privately-owned estate. It costs to get in. It’s only a short walk from the village of Ingleton, just off the main route from Skipton to the Lake District, which passes through earthy sounding places like Long Preston and Hellifield... [see more]