Places to explore in North YorkshireEngland · Yorkshire and the Humber

Three broad flights of stepped falls carrying the River Ure over limestone shelves through wooded Wensleydale.

A towering limestone ravine with twin waterfalls, its overhanging walls a magnet for artists and writers for centuries.

A vast curved amphitheatre of white limestone 80 metres high, topped by one of England's finest limestone pavements.

Twenty-four arches of the Settle–Carlisle line striding across Batty Moss, built in the 1870s from navvy shanty towns whose dead fill Chapel-le-Dale's churchyard.

Wind-carved gritstone tors scattered across a Nidderdale moor.

1.6 km²

Limestone country of dry-stone walls, field barns, waterfalls and the Three Peaks.

2,185 km²

A great overhanging limestone cliff glacier-cut in Wharfedale, its jutting nose a landmark and a climbers' test.

Ornate Victorian railway viaduct arching the Nidd gorge above the boats and riverside gardens.

A steep escarpment edge above the Vale of York, its sweeping panorama once called the finest view in England.

Britain's most complete medieval city walls, a two-mile rampart walk past bars, towers and battlements.

Yorkshire's highest peak, above Ribblehead Viaduct.

737 m

Priory ruin on a bend of the Wharfe.