DISCOVER YORKSHIRE: Attractions & Culture

Discover HARROGATE Harrogate is a large town in North Yorkshire, England. It is part of the larger Harrogate local government district. Prior to the discovery of its naturally iron and sulphur rich water, Harrogate was two minor villages (High Harrogate and Low Harrogate) close to the historic town of Knaresborough ...

Discover LEEDS Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire. It is located on the River Aire and is the urban core of the City of Leeds metropolitan district. Recently Leeds has received accolades in the field of tourism; including being voted by Conde Nast Traveller magazine Readers' Awards as the UK's favourite city and also Visitor city of the year ...

Discover SCARBOROUGH Scarborough is a town on the North Sea coast of North Yorkshire, England. The modern town lies 30 to 70 metres above sea level, on limestone cliffs. The older part of the town lies around the harbour and is protected by a rocky headland. Scarborough is served by Scarborough railway station ...

Discover WHITBY Whitby is a historic town in North Yorkshire on the north-east coast of England. Nowadays it is a fishing port and tourist destination. It is situated 47 miles from York, at the mouth of the River Esk and spreads up the steep sides of the narrow valley carved out by the river's course ...

Discover YORK York is a historic walled city in Northern England, at the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Foss. The city was founded in AD 71 and became in turn the capital of the Roman province of Britannia Inferior, known as Eboracum, and of the kingdoms of Northumbria and Jorvik ...

Fountains Abbey Yorkshire - Fountains Abbey in Yorkshire is a Cistercian monastery first founded A.D. 1132. The Abbey was in operation until the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1539, ordered by Henry VIII, after which the Abbey buildings and over 500 acres (2 km²) of land were sold ...

National Railway Museum Yorkshire - The National Railway Museum contains a collection of over 100 locomotives and nearly 200 other items of rolling stock, together with many hundreds of thousands of other items of railway historical interest (down to a lock of Robert Stephenson's hair) displayed in three large halls ...

York Minster Yorkshire - The first church on the site of York Minster was a wooden structure built hurriedly in 627 to provide a place to baptise Edwin, King of Northumbria. Moves toward a more substantial building began in the 630s. A stone structure was completed in 637 by Oswald and was dedicated to Saint Peter ...