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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:
Looking at self catering cottages or nice B&Bs.
Wants:
- some nice driving! Taking the MX-5
- 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
Looking at self catering cottages or nice B&Bs.
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.
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 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.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 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.
Spent a week in Yorkshire last year on holiday and agree with Whitby and Goathland area.
We stayed here http://www.dunsleyhall.com/
We stayed here http://www.dunsleyhall.com/
NiceCupOfTea said:
Planning a mini break in Yorkshire this summer, looking for some suggestions of areas to concentrate on/places to stay.
Wants:
Looking at self catering cottages or nice B&Bs.
We have stayed at this place twice http://www.westburncottage.co.ukWants:
- some nice driving! Taking the MX-5
- 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
Looking at self catering cottages or nice B&Bs.
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.
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...
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...
NCoT
recommend last cottage on right here
Booking agent page
Two neighbouring ones also up for rent, all have own parking space.
recommend last cottage on right here
Booking agent page
Two neighbouring ones also up for rent, all have own parking space.
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.
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.
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.
Simply epic. I shall be back.
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.
Simply epic. I shall be back.
Paddy_N_Murphy said:
NiceCupOfTea said:
and possibly my favourite driving road ever, the B1257 to Stokesley.
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. Simply epic. I shall be back.Hope you missed the flights for the Airbourne sections just between Chopgate and Claybank
When I lived in Stokesley I would often go to Helmsley to get my Sunday papers.
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