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NiceCupOfTea

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25,298 posts

253 months

Sunday 11th July 2010
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Planning a mini break in Yorkshire this summer, looking for some suggestions of areas to concentrate on/places to stay.

Wants:

  • some nice driving! Taking the MX-5 smile
  • nice walks
  • nice towns
  • want to spend a day or two in York and happy to relocate to a B&B there for a night or two
Dales? Moors?

Looking at self catering cottages or nice B&Bs.

Robin Hood

703 posts

207 months

Sunday 11th July 2010
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Lot's of info here on where to go and where to stay:

http://www.visityorkshire.co.uk/

wink

Teebs

4,522 posts

217 months

Sunday 11th July 2010
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Whitby would be a good option. The road from Pickering to Whitby is very good indeed.

rlw

3,358 posts

239 months

Sunday 11th July 2010
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Leyburn.

Some fantastic roads thereabouts and some even better walks and is convenient for just about the whole of the area. Looks to have a couple of hotels/pubs too and is a nice lttle town. Sod the coast - it will be packed and while getting there involves some good roads, at this time of the year they will just be a PITA.

rlw

3,358 posts

239 months

Sunday 11th July 2010
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rlw said:
Leyburn.

Some fantastic roads thereabouts and some even better walks and is convenient for just about the whole of the area. Looks to have a couple of hotels/pubs too and is a nice lttle town. Sod the coast - it will be packed and while getting there involves some good roads, at this time of the year they will just be a PITA.
York will be packed too.

Civpilot

6,235 posts

242 months

Sunday 11th July 2010
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My mate lives in Thornton dale and the roads around there (especially heading up onto the moors) are epic. That area is a nice place to stay too, will be there myself in a couple of weeks.

Zad

12,718 posts

238 months

Sunday 11th July 2010
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York does get busy in summer, but in the early evening it is a fantastic place to stroll around, especially around the Minster area. The same applies to the roads, busy during the day, but come 6pm all the traffic tends to disappear. There are certainly some amazing roads up there, generally well maintained, smooth and stunning views.

andrew_huxtable

936 posts

190 months

Sunday 11th July 2010
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We stay in a place called Hutton-le-hole, its right in the dales, close enough to all the good places to visit and the best bit is that no matter the destination the drive is great.

SummerTime

1,292 posts

174 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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Goathland, Esk Valley robin-hoods bay Whitby,rosedale smile

nammynake

2,591 posts

175 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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Just a few ideas:

Knaresborough
Fountains Abbey
Brimham Rocks
Ingleton (highly recommend the White Scar caves nearby).


A65 from Leeds to Lake District is a nice road mid-week if traffic is light. Very popular with bikers at the weekend.

Roo

11,503 posts

209 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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Spent a week in Yorkshire last year on holiday and agree with Whitby and Goathland area.

We stayed here http://www.dunsleyhall.com/

Don

28,377 posts

286 months

Monday 12th July 2010
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NiceCupOfTea said:
Planning a mini break in Yorkshire this summer, looking for some suggestions of areas to concentrate on/places to stay.

Wants:

  • some nice driving! Taking the MX-5 smile
  • nice walks
  • nice towns
  • want to spend a day or two in York and happy to relocate to a B&B there for a night or two
Dales? Moors?

Looking at self catering cottages or nice B&Bs.
We have stayed at this place twice http://www.westburncottage.co.uk

It's excellent and it only sleeps two (unlike most self-catering places) and so you do not pay for space you will not be using (given you are a childfree couple like ourselves).

The walking out the door is superb and if you willing to drive the Dales are simply fabulous.

The driving is something else, too. The Buttertubs pass is a must.

We will be going back.

If you decide to go there make sure you ping me and I'll pass on what I know about the area. It was so good the first year we went we just went back the following year! Might go there next year, too, but at a different time of year perhaps - maybe winter to see the place differently.

Zad

12,718 posts

238 months

Tuesday 13th July 2010
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Basically, the North York Moors are to the East of the A1 and the Yorkshire Dales are to the West. Either are equally good MX-5 (or TVR!) territory.

If you are into beer at all, both Theakstons and Black Sheep are based at Masham and have their own shops and tours (Masham is not far west off the A1). Masham itself is a very pretty old country village built around a square and has several nice pubs. Bedale, Middleham and Leyburn are all not that far away and are pretty country towns too. Go west from there though Aysgarth and Hawes (home of Wensleydale cheese!) in order to get to Buttertubs pass (north from Hawes).

If you are into history and architecture, there are plenty of castles and ruined monasteries to walk around. Jervaulx abbey and Middleham castle (to the west), Rievaulx abbey, Byland abbey (with a really nice pub over the road), Helmsley castle to the east. All these are easily within a day's sedate touring, and if you don't fancy the whole history thing, you can get a look at most of them from the road anyway.

If either of you are literary types, or appreciate craftsman made furniture, you might like a trip to Coxwold (home of the author Laurence Sterne and also a nice pub, the Fauconberg Arms) and then Kilburn, where Robert 'Mouseman' Thompson's craftsmen make oak furniture in the arts and crafts tradition - it has a showroom and visitor's centre. Their furniture is quite unusual in that, whilst it certainly ain't cheap, it actually appreciates in value the longer you keep it.

Some ideas there anyway. And I have just realised I seem to navigate my way around North Yorks by way of pubs. Hmm...

F i F

44,397 posts

253 months

Tuesday 13th July 2010
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NCoT

recommend last cottage on right here

Booking agent page


Two neighbouring ones also up for rent, all have own parking space.

Matt Harper

6,651 posts

203 months

Tuesday 13th July 2010
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Damn, this is making me feel all homesick.
May I recommend the Lister Arms at Malham - just wonderful and somehow under the tourist radar.
The Dales are gorgeous - Upper Wharfedale being my favorite place in the world, during the summer.
Kettlewell, Kilnsey, Buckden, Hubberholme - all beautiful little villages with nice pub/restaurants surrounded really pleasing landscape.
Only downside is that some of the roads are very narrow, with high drystone walls, making brisk progress a little risky.
OP - I'm very envious. I used to live very close to the Dales and just took 'em for granted. Shame on me - you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone - and all that.

NiceCupOfTea

Original Poster:

25,298 posts

253 months

Monday 16th August 2010
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Guys, thank you all so much for your input! Got back a couple of days ago and what a blast!

BEST driving roads bar none I have ever driven! Not much traffic on the whole, drivers so polite - cars pulled over to let me past (and it wasn't because I was tailgating!).

Stayed in West Witton in a B&B (not far from that cottage Don!), loads of walking, and some amazing drives (best one was cross country to Settle, north via Ribblehead Viaduct to Hawes, up Buttertubs to Thwaite, then out to Cumbria to Nateby, back down to Garsdale Head, then back home through Hawes).

"Did" the moors too - Kirkbymoorside - Huttonlehole - Rosedale Abbey, Grosmont - A169 back to Pickering (one of the few times we were held up by traffic) - A170 to Helmsley, and possibly my favourite driving road ever, the B1257 to Stokesley.

cloud9 Simply epic. I shall be back.

marksx

5,062 posts

192 months

Monday 16th August 2010
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Stay away from the A64. Horrible road!

As mentioned Pickering to Whitby is fantastic. In fact just drive that way till you are lost and have to find your way back through the back roads biggrin

NiceCupOfTea

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25,298 posts

253 months

Monday 16th August 2010
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Paddy_N_Murphy said:
NiceCupOfTea said:
and possibly my favourite driving road ever, the B1257 to Stokesley.

cloud9 Simply epic. I shall be back.
AKA the "Helmsley TT" - Great road if not swarmed with slow coaches, and / or Motorbikes averaging 1.5 leptons.

Hope you missed the flights for the Airbourne sections just between Chopgate and Claybank wink


When I lived in Stokesley I would often go to Helmsley to get my Sunday papers.




at 7am

driving
Maybe 2 cars in the other direction? No traffic going my way. Probably about 8pm on Wednesday evening.

madbadger

11,582 posts

246 months

Monday 16th August 2010
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Shhh. Don't tell everyone. wink We don't want the roads to get too busy.

smile