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DALBY There’s always something new to catch your eye, Tearooms Key attractions Cropton FOREST Scarborough from the town’s fortnightly antique auctions to the Where to stay? fabulously eclectic exhibitions of Bils & Rye, with Pubs Historical building Sutton Bank artworks by Britain’s best contemporary artists Stay in luxury with four-poster beds and Kirkbymoorside and makers sitting alongside locally-made home roaring log fires, designer treehouses with your Restaurants Bird of prey centre Thirsk A170 Helmsley A170 furnishings and musical instruments. Meanwhile, in own in-built spa, or B&Bs serving Yorkshire’s Pickering Filey Thornton-le- nearby workshops, you can witness the country’s finest best breakfast. Stay somewhere unique, VALE OF Dale PICKERING contemporary craftspeople, including Gillies Jones, Visitorinside a Victorian train station or overlooking creating masterpieces in glass, wood – and chocolate! abbey cloisters, or go back to nature camping What’s in each market town: Ampleforth Flamingo Informationbeneath some of Britain’s starriest skies. Land A169 Kirkbymoorside is Ryedale’s smallest market town, but Search for something special at: Malton A64 Hovingham Scampston its weekly market is the liveliest. It’s been held in the cobbled market square for over 750 years and is one of HOWARDIAN HILLS Rillington www.yorkshire.com A19 AONB the last privately run Markets in England. The crowds also gather here each May for one of Yorkshire’s YORKSHIRE WOLDS favourite races, the Kirkbymoorside 10k, with its Helmsley Easingwold Malton Castle infamous uphill climb; while the town’s Christmas Norton-on Howard Switch-On is a regional highlight each November, -Derwent Kirby starring Santa and the town’s award-winning, 200- Grindalythe Bridlington year old brass band! Kirkham Pickering Sheri Hutton Abbey Located in the heart of North Yorkshire, Ryedale is easily Whatever’s happening, Kirkbymoorside is the place Howsham accessible by road. There where friends and family gather – as they have for Thixendale are regular trains to Malton centuries - to share the news, browse the stores and A64 from York and Scarborough galleries and eat and drink great food. It’s a legacy Norton-on-Derwent (www.nationalrail.co.uk), that’s also celebrated nearby in the award-winning and local buses serve the Ryedale Folk Museum, with its ‘village’ exploring 4000 Stamford region’s towns and villages Bridge years of rural life.
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Explore Britain’s most spectacular and unspoilt countryside, a haven for wildlife, But that’s not the only time-travelling you can Time doesn’t stand still in Pickering, though: this is which includes the North York Moors National experience in Pickering, as this is a town that revels a thriving market town with over 100 independent Park, Yorkshire Wolds, and the Howardian Hills in nostalgia. stores. It’s the place where the locals stock up on Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty with the all the essentials, and their favourite treats too in parkland idyll of Castle Howard at its heart. Tea-rooms and shops have a gloriously vintage shops like Feast Deli, the Organic Supermarket, Ryedale’s a place flavour, including the North’s largest antique Taylors, or Birdgate Chocolatiers, all showcasing It’s perfect country for walking, cycling or Pickering centre, and a bakery still serving its original local produce. horse-riding, with over 1400 miles of trails to Yorkshire recipes from 1865. You can step into the where you can explore, from lazy Sunday meanders to epic Pickering is home to the world-famous reconstructed Victorian pubs, shops and parlours adventures. North Yorkshire Moors Railway, where of the Beck Isle Museum; wander the battlements find a rare sense of Pickering Castle; or marvel at one of Europe’s you can embark on a magical steam most important medieval treasures: the stunning of peace and train ride through some the UK’s wall-art of St Peter and St Paul’s Church. Then each most spectacular moorland scenery, October, the entire town turns the clock back to tranquillity, but the 1940s during Pickering Wartime Weekend, the Seeking including a stop at Harry Potter’s train largest festival of its kind in Britain. station in Goathland. An unmistakable it’s never sleepy! inspiration? Katie Atkinson spirit of adventure Walking routes and maps around Ryedale’s Helmsley in Business Kirkbymoorside: Market Place market towns can be found at You’ll find more information about Pickering is the gateway to the North York www.iFootpath.com (search ‘Ryedale’). visiting or staying in Pickering at: Moors National Park and Dalby Forest, one of Or there’s more information about local walking Britain’s best outdoor adventure playgrounds, and cycling at www.howardianhills.org.uk or www.welcometopickering.co.uk and the town is the best place to get ready for www.northyorkmoors.org.uk. North Yorkshire Moors Railway Castle Howard the great outdoors. There are stores where you can buy or hire kit for every adventure, and this Putting on a show is where you can find a local guide or expert to make the most of your trip, with a huge range Ryedale loves putting on a show, celebrating its vibrant culture year-round with events that of workshops or guided tours on offer. attract top names – and plenty of surprises! Major market town festivals for your calendar:
February August • Dark Skies Festival • British Cycling National Road Race Series April September • Beertown in Malton • Malton Harvest Food Festival On the road between May • Malton & Norton Racing Festival • Malton Food Lovers Festival October the market towns • Duncombe Park Country Fair in Helmsley • Pickering’s Wartime Weekend July • Ryedale Book Festival in Malton Enjoy a foodie road trip, with first-class farm • Malton Show at Scampston Hall December shops tempting you with produce fresh from • Ryedale Jazz Festival in Pickering • Malton’s Dickensian Festival the field. Look out for Beadlam Grange, The • Ryedale Show at Welburn Park, • Helmsley’s Christmas Festival, including Whole Hogg, Cedarbarn, The Balloon Tree or Kirkbymoorside The Panto and Christmas Tree Nursery Castle Howard farm shops. • Ryedale Festival • Santa’s Steam Specials at Pickering’s North Yorkshire Moors Railway