HOME TOURING PICKERING INFORMATION SITE The Howard Rosedale Abbey Caravan Club Site, Rosedale Abbey, Pickering, North YO18 8SA. Call 01751 417842. For full details see p218 of the Sites Directory & Handbook 2009/10

LYKE WAKE WALK If you fancy really bleak moorland walking, the road north-east from Rosedale Abbey leads in two miles or so to the 42-mile Lyke Wake Walk. This crosses the moors from Osmotherley to Ravenscar via ancient burial routes later used by monks, miners and smugglers. In the past, groups of walkers would challenge themselves to complete the 42-mile route in less than 24 hours, but extensive erosion means large numbers are now discouraged from attempting it. On Wheeldale Moor, south- west of Goathland, the path crosses a mile-long stretch of Europe’s best-preserved Roman road, Wade’s Causeway, which once linked York with the coast. adrenaline-rushing rides, and Eden Camp, a ruined abbey, both of which feature in Second World War museum in a former Bram Stoker’s horror novel, Dracula. YouBOOKSHOP prisoner-of-war camp near Malton. might want to avoid these locations on Lookinga for travel guides, maps or some holiday reading? Why Along the A170 and north of dark, moonless night, but venture therenot visit the Club bookshop online at caravanclub.co.uk/books. Kirkbymoorside, Hutton-le-Hole is during daylight (maybe take some garlic,With over one million titles to choose from there is something surely a strong contender for the title of just to be sure) and you’ll enjoy for everyone. Save a minimum of 10% per title – sometimes moors’ prettiest village. As at Goathland, wonderful views over the town and alongmuch more. Free delivery on orders over £20. its houses lie around a large green, this the coast. one with a stream meandering through its Robin Hood’s Bay doesn’t have so much undulations. It also has an absorbing to sink your teeth into, but it is a pretty museum, the Ryedale Folk Museum, spot, the Victorian and Edwardian villasAbove: of Scarborough As with many British resorts, its best which recreates local life across the the upper village giving way to bijou is Britain’s oldest days seem long gone now, though it still has A heartbeat centuries. Special events are held cottages as narrow streets descend abruptlyseaside resort plenty to draw tourists. It has two sandy through the year. to the harbour slipway. bays – North and South – separated by a At the heart of the moors is , At the bottom, the Bay Hotel, markingBelow: The North headland on which stands the castle ruins, York Moors Railway renowned for the wild daffodils carpeting the easternmost point on the Coast-to- mostly dating from the 12th and 13th runs for 18 miles the banks of the River Dove during early Coast Walk (the other end is 190 milesbetween Grosmont centuries. You will also find the remains of spring. Crowds rush in at weekends so, if away at St Bees Head, in Cumbria), is aand Pickering a Roman signalling station within its walls you can, time your visit for midweek. It is welcoming place for refreshment. and the 18th-century Master Gunner’s easily reached from the Club’s Rosedale Scarborough, the biggest of the three, is house, now serving, more peacefully, as a Abbey site, in the next valley. the country’s oldest resort, attracting museum and tea room. away What remains of the original building at visitors since the 17th century, initially to From the castle there are great views Rosedale Abbey is incorporated in the its mineral springs but later for sea-bathing, of Scarborough’s harbour and, to village church. The area was heavily when it became known as ‘the Queen of the north, white pyramids which exploited in the latter half of the 19th the Watering Places’. pinpoint the Sea Life and Marine Don Jolly urges you to make time for the century for its ironstone, and at Bank Sanctuary at Scalby Mills. Top, the highest point on the steep pretty villages of the – road climbing to the moors south n of the village, you can see the including a particularly famous one remains of kilns used to process the stone before it was transported to Teesside. It’s a harsh landscape, DID YOU F YOU’REa fan of Heartbeat, The railway runs through moorland for far-removed from the gentle pastoral KNOW? scene in the valley just below. television’s long-running police drama 18 miles between Grosmont, north of The North York Moors series set in the 1960s, you will be Goathland, and Pickering, just beyond the It isn’t all that far from here to the coast,are famouspurple heather for their I with , Robin Hood’s Bay and familiar with the North York Moors National Park’s southern boundary. Two of National Park. Much of the action takes the line’s more remote stops are handy for Scarborough close to hand. Whitby is ❖ place in and around Goathland – referred getting to the heart of the moors. particularly popular, with its quaint to as ‘Aidensfield’ in the programme – Levisham station is at the start of a cobbled streets crowding round the which has a station on the seven-mile circular walk taking in the Hole harbour, once crammed with fishing and Moors steam railway, adding to the of Horcum, an unusual glacial formation. whaling boats. There’s a monument to 1960s feel of the show. There are a couple of refreshment options Captain James Cook, who served as an Ordnance Survey apprentice here, on West Cliff, close to a Landranger Maps 94, Goathland is one of numerous appealing en route, the Saltersgate Inn near the Hole, well as being the southern terminus of the 100, 101 villages on the moors, its buildings and the Horseshoe Inn at Levisham village, steam railway has a Norman castle. whalebone arch, while his old lodging in scattered around extensive greens on which about a mile from the station. Although largely ruined, many walls and Grape Lane is now a museum of Cook Above: step back in grazing sheep wander freely. Almost a mile Halt, meanwhile, has no towers, as well as a small chapel, remain in memorabilia. time in Goathland separates the station (which also featured road access at all, but to the west of the fine fettle. Several medieval monarchs are Along Church Street, 199 steps lead in the film, Harry Potter and the station waymarked trails lead through the said to have stayed there, mainly on steeply up to St Mary’s Church and the Right: Pickering has Philosopher’s Stone) from the church and Forestry Commission’s Cropton Forest. hunting trips. South of the town, other royal connections the Mallyan Spout Hotel, named after a Known as ‘the Gateway to the Moors’, attractions include Flamingo Land, which 70ft waterfall nearby. Pickering is a charming market town and as contains numerous animals as well as

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