Historic sites
Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden
Ripon, North Yorkshire
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.
Travel tips in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Natural features
Brimham Rocks
Pateley Bridge, North Yorkshire
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 Bea…
Walks and treks
Malham Tarn
Settle, North Yorkshire
The highest lake in England, surrounded by limestone pavement and moorland in the Yorkshire Dales.
Walks and treks
Roseberry Topping
Great Ayton, North Yorkshire
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.
Places to stay
Wrea Head Hall, Scalby
Scarborough, North Yorkshire
A Victorian Gothic country-house hotel built in 1881, set in parkland on the edge of the North York Moors National Park at Scalby, just outside Scarb…