Strange balancing rock formations of millstone grit on a moor in Nidderdale, carved by ice, wind and rain into shapes with names like the Dancing Bear, the Idol and the Turtle. Children love scrambling over them.
The views over Nidderdale are wonderful, especially when the heather flowers in August.
The largest monastic ruin in England, a Cistercian abbey founded in 1132 and closed by Henry VIII, set in a wooded valley beside the River Skell.
The highest lake in England, surrounded by limestone pavement and moorland in the Yorkshire Dales.
York Minster is one of the largest Gothic cathedrals in northern Europe, with the Great East Window, the largest expanse of medieval stained glass in…
A distinctive hill with a half-cone summit on the edge of the North York Moors, shaped by a geological fault and mining that collapsed its side.
A medieval house built around a 14th-century tower, home to the Strickland family for over 700 years.
Britain's first national park, between Manchester and Sheffield, with gritstone edges, moorland and limestone dales.
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