Villages & towns in North YorkshireNorth Yorkshire, England

A smugglers' village of cobbled alleys tumbling down a ravine to a rocky, fossil-strewn shore.

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A cliff-hung harbour town of red roofs and kipper smoke, the 199 steps climbing to abbey and clifftop church.

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England's great walled cathedral city, the Minster rising over the timbered lean of the Shambles and a two-mile rampart above the Ouse.

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A former fishing port squeezed into a cleft between high cliffs, its cottages painted and Cook once apprenticed here.

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The bustling capital of Upper Wharfedale, its cobbled square ringed by tea rooms, galleries and old lead-mining cottages.

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Genteel spa town of the Stray's green sweep, the Valley Gardens and Bettys, its pump room recalling the sulphur-water heyday.

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Market town stacked on cliffs above the Nidd, its railway viaduct arching the gorge over rowing boats and riverside gardens.

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White stone houses along a beck below the great curved cliff of Malham Cove, the busiest walking base in the Dales.

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Britain's original seaside resort, its two bays split by a headland castle, with spa, sands and Peasholm Park.

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Often called Yorkshire's prettiest village, centred on a beck, a market cross and the thatched, calendar-famous Beck Isle Cottage.

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Quiet Littondale village around a broad green, its inn once the original Woolpack of Emmerdale under Pen-y-ghent.

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A dignified Wensleydale village of tall stone houses, the Skeldale House of TV's All Creatures Great and Small.

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A single handsome street below the Howardian Hills, once home to novelist Laurence Sterne at Shandy Hall.

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A genteel resort town with five miles of sand curving between the Brigg and Flamborough Head.

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Postcard-perfect Swaledale village at the mouth of a lead-mining gill, its cottages tight against the fell.

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The only market town inside the North York Moors, its stone square set below a ruined castle with the Cleveland Way and Rievaulx close at hand.

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Wharfedale village of stone cottages and three pubs, known for its Calendar Girls fame and August scarecrow festival.

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A gentle market town on the Ure with a vast square, home to the Theakston and Black Sheep breweries.

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A knot of stone houses in upper Swaledale, its hay meadows a blaze of wildflowers each June.

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The unofficial capital of Swaledale, its shops, pubs and cafes ranged around a broad sloping green.

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A handsome Georgian market town on the Swale, with a cobbled marketplace, the oldest working theatre in Britain and riverside falls.

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Small cathedral city over an Anglo-Saxon crypt, with a thriving market square and the nightly sounding of the hornblower's watch.

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Lively market town beneath Castleberg crag, its 1249 charter still kept on Tuesdays and the Settle-Carlisle line beginning here.

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A tiny greystone hamlet where the Coast to Coast crosses the Pennine Way, ringed by waterfalls at Swaledale's head.

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Red-roofed cottages clinging to the cliff above a curving sandy bay, voted one of Britain's best beaches.

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A Wensleydale village strung above the Ure, famous for its three sets of stepped falls in wooded gorge below.

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Wensleydale village around a huge green with old stocks, on the River Bain, England's shortest river.

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Reckoned one of Yorkshire's prettiest villages, its riverside green and five-arched bridge set in a bend of the Wharfe.

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A single row of cottages facing the great fortress of Bolton Castle, above the Wensleydale valley floor.

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A tidy village of cottages over a wooded beck, gateway to Ingleborough Cave and the vast Gaping Gill pothole.

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A quiet dale of pasture and two hamlets, Low Mill and Church Houses, famous for its wild spring daffodils.

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A sprawling moor-edge village of sheep-cropped greens, famous as the 'Heartbeat' village and the Harry Potter station.

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The high market town at the head of Wensleydale, home of the creamery, the rope works and a Tuesday market.

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A hamlet of a church and an inn on the infant Wharfe, J. B. Priestley's favourite place, his ashes scattered here.

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A picture-postcard moorland village with a long winding green, a beck running through it and the Ryedale Folk Museum.

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Waterfall village at the foot of Ingleborough and Whernside, home to the famous falls trail and White Scar Cave.

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The main settlement of remote Arkengarthdale, its huddled cottages seen in the opening titles of All Creatures Great and Small.

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A quiet stone village below the moor whose Norman church keeps one of England's finest crypts, founded on a 7th-century monastery.

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A postcard village near Grassington, its beck crossed by clapper bridge, packhorse bridge and stepping stones at once.

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A hamlet in the wooded Rye valley, built partly from its dissolved abbey and overlooked by Rievaulx Terrace.

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Estate village rebuilt in the 1820s in French Alsace style, its cobbled square and Hotel de Ville set below Ripley Castle's gates.

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A Victorian seaside resort with the last pier on the Yorkshire coast and a working cliff lift down to surf.

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One of the prettiest Dales villages, its long green sloping to the Cauldron Falls, off the main Wensleydale road.

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A former ironstone village turned railway retreat, the northern terminus of the North Yorkshire Moors steam line.

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A busy Wensleydale market town on a limestone terrace, with the Shawl cliff-walk above it and a Friday market.

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The stone-built capital of Nidderdale, its steep high street home to the oldest sweet shop in England.

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Quiet green village on the site of Isurium, the northernmost Roman town, its mosaics still lying where they were laid.

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Old coaching town on the Ure, its market square and inns beside the three prehistoric standing stones called the Devil's Arrows.

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The last village up Wharfedale before the fells, its name meaning 'deer valley', a walkers' base beneath Buckden Pike.

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Hawes's older neighbour, its cottages and restored eighteenth-century mill set around a tumbling beck.

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Settle's older twin across the Ribble, a village of narrow lanes below its famous school and green-domed chapel.

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A tiny hillside village above the Rye, called the crowning glory of the Helmsley and Kirkbymoorside moors.

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A small Malhamdale village around the tall 'Cathedral of the Dales' church, a mile below Malham itself.

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Ribblesdale village around a leafy green just north of Settle, a starting point for Catrigg Force and Winskill.

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A hilltop village of steep cobbled lanes at the very head of Nidderdale, with far views down the dale.

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A stone village on the western moor edge with a green and a market cross, start of the Lyke Wake Walk.

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A green-centred dale village with little left of its priory, ringed by moor and the ironstone scars of Rosedale.

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A cottage-lined village where two becks meet the sea, its long beach running two miles to Whitby.

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Stone village between Harrogate and Wetherby, known for its ruined castle and a disused railway now walked as a green line.

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Ribblesdale village between two waterfalls, its seventeenth-century packhorse bridge arching the Ribble at Stainforth Force.

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A cluster of upper-Swaledale cottages below Kisdon, birthplace of the naturalist Kearton brothers.

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A Wensleydale village on the flank of Penhill, famous for its August 'Burning of Bartle' bonfire tradition.

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A scattered Esk Valley village and gateway to the moors, home to the national park's Moors National Park Centre.

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A small market town on the southern moor edge, its old streets climbing toward Farndale and the high tops.

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Quiet Malhamdale village on the Pennine Way, with a green, a former Quaker meeting house and a farm shop.

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A long single-street village above Aysgarth, with a market cross on its green and views across Wensleydale.

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