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North Yorkshire is England’s largest county and the most rural with spectacular landscapes from dales to coast. Rich in history, discover independent retailers in bustling market towns and sleepy villages, a thriving events and festival scene, and a huge range of attractions and days out.

Find out more and start planning your next visit to North Yorkshire , whether you are visiting for a day, a weekend or staying longer.

There are several Tourist Information Centres in North Yorkshire, that can help you make your visit even more enjoyable.

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View of Richmond from the Swale, North Yorkshire

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Boating in Knaresborough, on the River Nidd

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Thirsk, the heart of James Herriot county, North Yorkshire

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Pickering, where the Moors meet the Forest, in North Yorkshire

Nestled in the picturesque valley of Swaledale, Richmond is one of the most attractive towns in the UK thanks to its Georgian architecture. The town features a charming cobbled marketplace, which is surrounded by elegant 18th-century streets and buildings with a beautiful Gothic medieval church at its heart.

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An iconic boutique Spa town in the heart of Yorkshire, with thriving streets packed with an eclectic mix of boutique shopping and green spaces.

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Boating in Knaresborough, on the River Nidd in North Yorkshire

Full of surprises, a warren of medieval streets and stone staircases, perched on dramatic cliffs with famous views across the River Nidd.

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Exploring the historic streets of Ripon, North Yorkshire

A cathedral City rich in deep tradition and magnificent history with fascinating stories to tell of its character and people.

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Hawes

The home of Wensleydale cheese, a town filled with independent shops surrounded by dramatic landscape, great walking and beautiful waterfalls.

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Settle, a busy town in the Yorkshire Dales

A traditional Yorkshire market town surrounded by a dramatic limestone landscape filled with waterfalls, caves and hills just waiting to be explored.

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Skipton and Castle, in North Yorkshire

A Busy market town with a beautifully broad high street, thriving canal basin and one of Britain’s best preserved castles.

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The heart of Wensleydale, in North Yorkshire

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Bedale, in North Yorkshire

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Thirsk, the heart of James Herriot county, North Yorkshire

The birthplace of the James Herriot stories in a thriving market town just a short distance from Sutton Bank and finest view in England.

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Exploring the beautiful streets of Helmsley in North Yorkshire

Your gateway to the North York Moors National Park where a walled garden, castle and birds of prey centre surround this busy market town.

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Pickering, where the Moors meet the Forest, in North Yorkshire

Your base for exploring Yorkshire’s largest forest, the North York Moors National Park and a famous steam railway, the perfect place for adventures and activities.

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Malton, the food capital of North Yorkshire.

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Scarborough, North Yorkshire's original seaside resort

Head for the bright lights of Scarborough for a classic seaside break packed with ice cream, fish and chips, and plenty of family attractions.

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The sun rises over Whitby harbour, North Yorkshire

Uncover coastal charm with a gothic twist in Whitby’s cobbled streets, and delve into dramatic history at the world-famous Abbey.

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Seaside family fun, in Filey, North Yorkshire

This former fishing village offers a peaceful break with an impressive five mile beach, beautiful Edwardian architecture and an historic promenade.

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Tadcaster, busy streets and beautiful riverside walks in North Yorkshire

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Selby Abbey, in North Yorkshire

Having spent centuries on the front line of History Selby has a Norman-era Abbey at its heart, and a thriving market town community full of tradition.

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Northallerton, in North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire’s county town and historical centre, Northallerton is the perfect place to explore independent shops along its beautifully broad high street, lined with Georgian architecture.

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England’s largest county is a rich mixture of rolling hills and dales, dramatic moorland and spectacular coastline.  Interspersed among the peaks and valleys, the breathtaking landscapes and open waterways of are distinctive destinations and market towns, each with individual personality and charm.

North Yorkshire’s character can be explored through its amazing food and drink, the rich artistic culture and the echoes of our history that stand proud over the landscape.

However long you choose to visit North Yorkshire for, you will be spoiled for great ideas to fill a weekend, a week or longer exploring this special part of the country.

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The County is rich with stories; from Harrogate’s Victorian spas, to coastal fishing villages and Captain Cook’s legacy, Selby’s industrial and shipping heritage and waterways, Skipton’s canals to Tadcaster’s breweries. Discover the History of North Yorkshire.

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Places to visit in North Yorkshire

When you visit North Yorkshire, you’ll soon embrace the great outdoors. Bring your walking shoes for uphill climbs across Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors to castles and abbey ruins that frame the landscape, and afterwards, recharge in regal spa town tearooms and market town pubs over jugs of locally brewed Ruby Ale. One of the best things to do in North Yorkshire of all is amble round historic York, with its gothic York Minster cathedral decked out in stained glass. Get lost in cobbled snickelway passages, or take in ancient forts and bridges on a River Ouse cruise.

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24 hours in Whitby

Scratch the surface of the Gothic, historic and dramatic seaside town of Whitby, perched on the Yorkshire Coast.

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8 places to switch off in North Yorkshire

Feast your eyes on dramatic coastal scenery, historic abbeys, and hidden villages on your next short break to the Yorkshire coast.

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Take afternoon tea at Bettys Café Tea Rooms

Experience vintage English hospitality and choose from hundreds of delicious treats and tea varieties in this iconic Art Deco café.

Location: Harrogate, North Yorkshire

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Kiss under the Heart of Yorkshire window at the Minster

According to legend, all loved up couples that kiss under the 'Heart of Yorkshire' window, will stay together forever.

Location: York, North Yorkshire

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Go shopping medieval-style along The Shambles

Travel back in time along one of Europe’s best-preserved medieval shopping streets, with cheerful cafés and quirky shops in timber-framed buildings.

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March along England's longest medieval city walls

Enjoy a bird's-eye view of the city and stroll along its 13th century defensive walls, passing historic landmarks, gatehouses and gardens.

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Get on board at the National Railway Museum

The world's largest railway museum is home to a staggering collection of restored locomotives, including the fastest steam engine of all time.

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Rainy Day Activities: Step back in time at York Castle Museum

Travel back in time on a rainy day at this trend-setting museum, which transports visitors back through 300 years of history.

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Go ghost hunting in ‘Europe's most haunted city’

York claims to be the world’s first city to run ghost walks – you’ll soon see why, with tales of murder, mayhem and gore at every corner.

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Take a cruise along the River Ouse

The city of York owes its existence to the rivers. Escape the city rush and admire the scenery from the comfort of a City Cruises boat.

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Explore the city of York by bike

York is voted as one of the most bike-friendly cities in England with a wide range of cycle routes through the city and beyond.

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See England's finest view from Sutton Bank

Celebrated author and vet James Herriot gave the view from Sutton Bank the ultimate accolade – “England’s finest”. Find out if he was right…

Location: Sutton Bank, near Thirsk, North Yorkshire

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Keeping it in the family at Castle Howard

The Howard family has called Castle Howard home for 300 years but their house is your house as you explore one of Yorkshire’s finest historic estates.

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Celebrate Ryedale's heritage at the Folk Museum

Discover this hidden gem deep in the North York Moors National Park and uncover English antiques and curiosities.

Location: Hutton-le-Hole, North Yorkshire

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Take on adventures aplenty in Dalby Forest

See some of Yorkshire’s beautiful countryside from a mountain bike, Segway, tree-top trail and by night, at one of the UK’s premier activity centres.

Location: Dalby Forest, North Yorkshire

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Dive into an underwater world at SEA LIFE Scarborough

Discover a magical underwater world at one of North Yorkshire's best family attractions.

Location: Scarborough, North Yorkshire

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Get your jazz hands out for the Scarborough Jazz Festival

Each September, the annual Scarborough Jazz Festival on Yorkshire’s north coast provides the ideal tonic for music lovers to wash away those summer blues.

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Enjoy a magical ride across the English countryside

With your day ticket in hand, hop on the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and discover some of the best villages in UK between Pickering and Whitby.

Location: Whitby, North Yorkshire

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Savour family fun in sandy Scarborough

If you’re looking for good old-fashioned fun that's easy on the wallet, you might want to consider Scarborough beach, also known as the “St Tropez of the North”.

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Be royalty for a day at Scarborough Castle

Take an audio tour around the Castle, enjoy breathtaking views from the headland of the North Yorkshire Coast and have tea in a historic building.

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Explore historic Whitby Abbey

Discover how over 2,000 years of history made Whitby Abbey one of England’s most important archaeological sites.

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Create your own work of art in a quaint artist’s bolthole

Get the creative juices following and spend the weekend discovering inspiring landscapes just waiting to be captured.

Location: Staithes, North Yorkshire

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Delve into the story of Dracula

Probe into the dramatic history of Bram Stoker’s Dracula in the very place where the stories of the bloodthirsty vampire were born.

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15 Best Places to Visit in North Yorkshire (England)

As England’s largest county, North Yorkshire has a dizzying array of towns and natural environments, from barely-charted cave systems to sweeping sandy beaches, and from stately spa towns to remote upland hamlets.

To say there’s something for everyone in North Yorkshire doesn’t begin to sum it up.

Still, anybody coming to this neck of the woods should be directed to York, which is ancient and beautiful, as well as the Victorian resorts on the coast like Scarborough and Saltburn, which possess a dignity and elegance you don’t often see in English coastal towns.

For nature there are two massive national parks, while history abounds in the shape of haunting abbeys, heritage steam railways and Norman castles.

Lets explore the best places to visit in North Yorkshire :

York, England

When it comes to heritage, historical appeal and plain good looks, York is practically unmatched in England.

The city can be traced back to the 1st century, and during medieval times was England’s second city after London.

York was held in such high esteem by the Georgians it was safeguarded from the chimneystacks of the Industrial Revolution.

And so you’re left with an unspoiled warren of cobblestone streets, corbelled timber houses and 18th-century flat-fronted townhouses.

York Minster is one of Northern Europe’s largest gothic cathedrals and an enduring masterwork of medieval art.

When the railways arrived in York the city became an integral transport hub between London and Edinburgh, and you can dip into this history at the peerless National Railway Museum.

Whitby

Penned to the coast by the North York Moors, Whitby is a town around a former whaling harbour lodged in the River Esk estuary.

The older east bank of the river is all fishing cottages, cobblestone lanes and maritime inns, with a listed building every few steps.

Looking down on that east bank are the spectral ruins of Whitby Abbey, claimed to have inspired Bram Stoker to make the town his point of arrival for Dracula.

The town has cinematic beaches, historic churches, loads of fragments of its old whaling industry and a museum for Captain James Cook, the first western explorer to reach Australia, New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands.

This attraction is in the former home of the Walker Brothers, ship-owners who employed Cook while he was in Whitby.

3. Scarborough

Scarborough

Packed onto rocky limestone terrain, Scarborough could well be the cream of England’s seaside resorts and has been attracting tourists since the 1500s.

It was the Victorians who made an industry of tourism in Scarborough, engineering promenades between the North and South Bay and atop the South Cliff.

The Regency and Victorian architecture in these areas of the old spa resort is appropriately rich.

On the seafront next to the fine sandy beach are English seaside essentials like fish and chip shops, ice cream parlours, stands selling cockles and winkles, and the marvellous 19th-century spa complex, now a regal entertainment venue.

4. Harrogate

Harrogate

In the middle of rural North Yorkshire, Harrogate’s 88 springs became all the rage in the 17th century, and an exclusive spa town was soon born.

Harrogate has lost none of that historic lustre, and is replete with dignified Georgian houses, hotels and old pump rooms on cobblestone lanes and grand avenues.

Now the name is a synonym for luxury, as illustrated by Betty’s Cafe Tea Rooms, possibly the finest place for afternoon tea in England and frequented by the Queen when she’s in town.

Ripon Cathedral

England’s third-smallest city is also the oldest in the country, having been founded more than 1,350 years ago.

There are sights in Ripon that will leave you speechless.

And this certainly applies to the Studley Royal Park, UNESCO World Heritage Site.

This 18th century country garden in the romantic style was designed to complement the atmospheric ruins of Fountains Abbey, which was built in the 12th century and then abandoned in the 1500s.

Ripon Cathedral is the other indispensable attraction, designed mostly in the early English gothic style.

Look out for the 35 “misericords” , carvings on the underside of the choir seats, commissioned in the early-1490s.

6. Yorkshire Dales

Yorkshire Dales

Taking up massive swathes of the northwestern side of the county, the Yorkshire Dales are hills and river valleys on a limestone bed.

This geology grants the park majestic cave systems that, like Goyden, Stump Cross, Ingleborough and White Scar, are open as show caves for tours.

Many others are the preserve of experienced cavers and potholers, and if this interests you there are lots of guides waiting to take you on subterranean adventures.

For everyone else the Dales mean hikes in one of the most secluded areas in England where your friends and loved ones, and herds of Swaledale sheep, may be your only company.

7. North York Moors

North York Moors

Those who crave the outdoors are spoiled in North Yorkshire, as the county also has the North York Moors National Park.

This is 1,430 square kilometres of heather moorland and forest to the east of the county, continuing right to the North Sea coast where it yields to cliffs and magical sandy beaches.

The uplands, with hills rising above 400 metres is dramatic heather moor, while this falls away to deep dales with seams of ancient woodland.

There are more mature trees on the North York Moors than any other place in Northern England.

Only a few thousand people live on the North York Moors, so settlements are limited to hamlets and villages with pubs that will be a welcome sight for hungry or weary walkers and cyclists.

Malham Cove

No settlement in the Yorkshire Dales are blessed with as much limestone formations as the village of Malham.

On treks around Malham you’ll reach a host of minor natural wonders in a matter of minutes.

Most photographed is Malham Cove, a sheer wall, 80 metres high and shaped by an ice age river.

Climbers love to scale the cliffs, while cave divers explore the maze-like cave system and the base, which is at least 1.6 kilometres long.

There’s an awe-inspiring raving at Gordale Scar, painted by Turner and eulogised by the poet William Wordsworth.

Then there’s Malham Tarn, England’s highest lake and a National Trust site for its unusual alkaline waters and biology.

9. Helmsley

Helmsley Castle

This market town straddles the boundary of the North York Moors National Park and is the trailhead for the long-distance Cleveland Way, which curls through the park and along the coast down to Filey more than 110 metres away.

If there’s one monument you must see in Helmsley it’s the ruins of Rievaulx Abbey.

The ruins are managed by English Heritage and are some of the most complete of any abandoned abbey in the country.

This was once one of England’s wealthiest Cistercian monasteries until it was dissolved by Henry VIII in the 1500s.

There’s much more to the town than this though, as Helmsley features a castle brewery a centre for birds of prey and an exquisite walled garden from 1759.

10. Knaresborough

Knaresborough

People travel  a long way to Knaresborough just for the sight of the town teetering on the steep gorge on the east bank of the River Nidd.

And what sets the view off is the lovely Knaresborough Viaduct crossing through the gorge carrying trains into the town.

Knaresborough’s sharp gradient only makes it prettier, as you clamber up the cobblestone streets and staircases that rise from the riverside.

On the west bank is a spring with such high mineral content that objects left hanging here take on a stony appearance after a few years.

This is also Mother Shipton’s cave, where the notorious 15th-century prognosticator was supposedly born.

11. Grassington

Grassington

In the Yorkshire Dales the smart market town of Grassington has a village-like feel and is one of the best places to stay if you’re thinking of a hiking holiday in the park.

There’ a park authority information centre to clue you in everything you can track down in the wilderness close by, and a cute little folk museum depicting traditional costume and trades.

The picturesque village of Linton close by has the Linton Falls, a man-made weir with a high volume of water crashing on the rocks below.

These waters were channelled to power old textile mills, and a hydroelectric plant here that had been defunct since the 40s was restored in 2012 and now produces power for the village a century after it was installed.

12. Saltburn-by-the-Sea

Saltburn-by-the-Sea

Up to the mid-1800s there wasn’t much in Saltburn bar an inn  and a few cottages.

That was until the railways arrived, and with them the Pease Family of industrialists from Darlington.

The story goes that Henry Pease, a Quaker, had a heavenly vision of a city here resembling Jerusalem in 1858 and ventured to bring it to life.

Notice the “Jewel Streets” , a series of parallel roads with sea views, named after precious stones (Amber, Pearl, Diamond) and claimed to be inspired by that original vision.

The resort had a whole load of innovations, like the water-powered “Cliff-Lift” funicular, which still rattles from the pier to the cliff-top.

The Zetland Hotel, now apartments,  was remarkable for being one of the first hotels with its own private train platform.

Hawes

Like many places towards the North of England Hawes has an Old Norse name, which means “mountain pass”. This comes from the Buttertubs Pass, an upland road that now links Hawes with the villages of Muker and Thwaite to the north.

And as for the name “Buttertubs”, these are the 20-metre limestone potholes on the way, where market traders would store their butter on hot days.

Hawes market has been trading since the early-1300s and got its official charter in 1699. Now it takes place on Tuesdays, and the must-buy is Wensleydale cheese, which is produced in Hawes at the Wensleydale Creamery.

Inquisitive cheese-lovers can stop by to see how George Orwell’s second-favourite cheese is made, and try it for themselves afterwards.

14. Pickering

Pickering

On the southern verge of the North York Moors, Pickering is the town that many travellers choose as their accommodation for their excursions into the park.

It’s a given that the moors are a big draw in Pickering, but there’s also a weekend’s worth of interesting things to see in and near the town.

Take St Peter and St Paul’s Church, which has a captivating set of frescos on the walls of the nave, with images like St George slaying the dragon, painted around 1450. Also here are the spectacular ruins of Pickering Castle, with a 13th-century ruin with a chapel and much of the outer walls and towers remaining.

Finally, the Beck Isle Museum is a celebrations of all things Victorian, and recreates life in a Market Town in the 1800s.

15. Robin Hood’s Bay

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The achingly pretty Robin Hood’s Bay is a seafront village with cliffs, beaches and a little nest of alleys and lanes to explore.

You’re also on Yorkshire’s Dinosaur Coast, where it’s not too difficult to find fossils in the local shale rock, and dinosaur footprints have even been identified.

The village rests in a gap in the cliffs and has no more than a few streets of red brick fishing cottages.

The beach is below, and at low-tide seems to never end.

You can step inside the old Coastguard Station, which is a National Trust property commanding wonderful coastal views, or walk to the Georgian St Stephen’s Church in Fylingdales, which has a 200-year-old Georgian interior that has hardly been touched.

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Grosmont (pronounced 'Growmont') was once a hive of industry but is now a peaceful village huddled in the Esk Valley.

There are some tell-tale signs to the village’s character as you approach, notably the plume of steam and the railway tracks disappearing into a tunnel.

This, after all, is where ‘the father of railways’ George Stephenson's original railway from Whitby was being built that would go onto link to Pickering. The discovery of ironstone here made the development of the railway feasible and so back in the 1830s the village, then known simply as Tunnel, went from isolated hamlet to being a hotbed of industry almost overnight.

Today peace has returned but the railway remains very much the hub of the village, courtesy of the heritage steam train and the modern Esk Valley line taking passengers on a scenic journey between Middlesbrough and Whitby.

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Even before leaving the National Park car park, there are hints of Grosmont’s past as this was the site of a major ironworks in Victorian times where the surrounding mines would supply 1,000 tonnes of iron a week to feed the insatiable appetite of the three furnaces.

Where once brick chimneys stood, mine shafts were dug and tracks laid, nature has reclaimed these spaces leaving just gentle nods to their existence in the form of lumps and bumps in the landscape.

Another part of Grosmont’s heritage is also tied to the ironstone boom. Pop your head into the village shop, which is Britain’s oldest retail cooperative, established in 1867, and imagine those times when it served the scores of workers and their families.

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Soak up a slice of railway nostalgia, glimpse the wildlife reclaiming land once dominated by industry or simply enjoy quiet Esk Valley walks

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Go on a nostalgic journey on a heritage steam locomotive footplate

Go on a time travel walk along the Rail Trail to reimagine Grosmont’s role in the Land of Iron

Head through one of the oldest passenger railway tunnels to NYMR’s engine sheds

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Shop in Britain’s oldest retail cooperative

View a talented artist at work, a fabulous bluebell display lights up the local woods every may, taking in historic birch hall inn.

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Grosmont Ironworks, the major industrial complex has merged into the leafy National Park car park

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From the tumbling waters of the River Esk and Murk Esk to the wooded paths through Crag Cliff Wood

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A small but valuable population is found in the upper catchments of the Esk, Murk Esk and Leven

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Car parks: National Park car park (YO22 5QE) and NYMR station car park (both pay and display) Bike hire and repair Yorkshire Cycle Hub Nearest public EV charging points – Whitby Post Office in Grosmont Co-op offers cash withdrawals Cafés and pub, including a tearoom at the railway station when line open

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Buy the Rail Trail guidebook from local outlets to get the most from the 3.5 mile walk which runs up Stephenson's original railway line from Grosmont, via Beck Hole, to Goathland

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Regional board highlights: November 2023

Regional board highlights: November 2023

Here are the key regional board decisions affecting multi-academy trusts in each region in England in November 2023. For more updates, visit our  regional advisory boards hub .

In total, there were 18 academy orders, 62 academy conversions and five academies moving trusts.

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Regional board decisions in November 2023

  • Single-academy trust (SAT) Great Smeaton Academy Primary School in North Yorkshire will join Dales Academies Trust, which has 13 primaries and one secondary based in North Yorkshire. The minutes note that the board “agreed that being part of a multi-academy trust (MAT) would offer better prospects of financial stability”.  
  • The board approved the transfer of a second SAT (Bradshaw Primary School in Calderdale) to join The Family of Learning Trust, which has four schools in Halifax.

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  • Approval was given for the conversion of three primary schools in Herefordshire (Weston-under-Penyard CE, Whitchurch Church of England and Goodrich) and two in Shropshire (Onny CofE and Lydbury North CofE) to join the Diocese of Hereford Multi Academy Trust in Shropshire. The trust currently has 15 academies.  
  • Aqueduct Primary School in Telford and Wrekin was approved to be sponsored by REAch2 Academy Trust, based in Derbyshire, which has 60 schools. The school will be the trust’s second in Telford.
  • Approval was given for the conversion of Puttenham CofE Infant School in Surrey to join the Good Shepherd Trust - an eight-school trust based in Dagenham. The trust currently has seven primary schools and one secondary. Puttenham School will be the only school the trust has in Surrey.  
  • The board approved the conversion of SAT Bishop Wand CofE School in Surrey to a MAT.  
  • Approval was given for Inspira Academy Trust in Kent (a two-school primary trust) to join Turner Schools. Turner is a six-school MAT, based in Folkestone, with three primary schools and three secondary.  
  • Three primary academies and two secondaries will transfer from the Skills for Life Trust to the Beyond Schools Trust, on the condition that further growth of the MAT is to be paused until the regional director is assured that the two secondaries (Walderslade Girls’ School and Greenacre Academy) have improved sufficiently. Trust accounts published in January 2024 reveal that approval had been given for the Skills for Life Trust to merge with Beyond Schools Trust.
  • The board approved the sponsorship of the Emily Wilding Davison School in Newcastle-upon-Tyne by River Tees MAT, a five-school trust based in Middlesborough. The school, which is a special school catering to pupils with social, emotional and mental health needs, will be the trust’s first academy in the area.
  • Approval was given for the two-school trust Bedford College Academies Trust (consisting of Wixams Tree Primary School and Wixams Academy) in Bedfordshire to join Knowledge Schools Trust. The MAT currently has seven schools (six primary schools and one secondary) in London and Milton Keynes.  
  • The board also approved the amalgamation of Barnes Farm Infant School and Barnes Farm Junior School - both part of the Chelmsford Learning Partnership in Essex, which has five primary schools, two secondaries and one all-through school. Minutes show that the board noted that “the amalgamation would lead to consistency in the curriculum between the two schools, which would make the transition for pupils from infant to junior school easier”.  
  • The board approved the conversion of Ardleigh St Mary’s CofE Voluntary Controlled Primary School in Essex to join Canonium Learning Trust, a MAT with five primary schools based in Colchester. The board heard that the trust is keen to expand and noted the geographic hub that the trust is creating.  
  • Approval was given for the conversion of Dersingham Voluntary-Aided Primary School in Norfolk to join the Diocese of Norwich Education and Academies Trust. The MAT currently has 40 schools - one secondary and 39 primaries - across Norwich. The board heard that the trust is in a growth phase, with many new schools joining recently.
  • Approval was given for the sponsorship of Derrymount Special School in Nottingham - classified as coasting after two consecutive “requires improvement” judgements by Ofsted - to join Nexus Multi Academy Trust, which currently has 15 schools (14 special schools and one primary).  
  • The board approved the sponsorship of Fourfields CofE Primary School in Sutterton, Lincolnshire, to join the Lincoln Anglican Academy Trust, a 21-school MAT based in Ruskington.  
  • Ash Field Academy special school, a standalone academy trust, was approved to transfer and join Discovery Schools Academies Trust, which has 15 schools across Leicestershire, Leicester and Rutland. This includes 13 mainstream primary schools and two special schools in Leicester.
  • The board gave its approval (with conditions) for 12 primary schools to convert and form a new trust, The Mosaic Partnership: •  Gillingstool Primary School, South Gloucestershire •  Raysfield Primary School, South Gloucestershire •  The Ridge Junior School, South Gloucestershire •  Broadway Infant School, South Gloucestershire •  St Michael’s CofE Primary School, Winterbourne, South Gloucestershire •  St Stephen’s CofE Junior School, Soundwell, South Gloucestershire •  The Park Primary School, South Gloucestershire •  Parkwall Primary School, South Gloucestershire •  Redfield Edge Primary School, South Gloucestershire •  Barrs Court Primary School, South Gloucestershire •  Neston Primary School, Wiltshire •  Box CofE Primary School, Wiltshire The board gave its approval on a number of conditions, including that the MAT add more diverse experience to its board and that the CEO has a mentor to provide positive and constructive support, working with both the CEO and chair in the first 12 months.  
  • The board gave its approval for Waycroft Multi Academy Trust’s three academies in Bristol (Waycroft Academy, Wicklea Academy and Woodlands Academy) to transfer to Cabot Learning Federation, a 30-school MAT based in Bristol.  
  • The board also approved the sponsorship of Queen Margaret Primary School in Gloucestershire to join the Cabot Learning Federation. The board noted that the MAT has taken on a number of vulnerable schools recently and this is the last of the trust’s planned growth in this academic year and the future focus will be on a period of consolidation.  
  • The board also approved the merger of two Plymouth-based trusts - the North Cornwall Learning Trust (five schools) and Westcountry Schools Trust (26 schools) with the former transferring its four primaries and one secondary. These schools are: •  Camelford Community Primary School, Cornwall •  St Teath Community Primary School, Cornwall •  Otterham Community Primary School, Cornwall •  St Breward Community Primary School, Cornwall •  Sir James Smith’s School, Cornwall Minutes show that the merger would see Westcountry Schools Trust form a Cornwall Hub consisting of two secondary schools and four primary schools. This is on condition that the trust undertakes an external review of governance following the transfer of the North Cornwall Learning Trust schools, and strengthens the educational expertise on the trust board.
  • The board approved the proposed formation of a new MAT called Ambition Community Trust and for the following schools in Tameside to convert and join it: •  Tameside Pupil Referral Service •  Russell Scott Primary School •  Greswell Primary School and Nursery •  Corrie Primary School •  Millbrook Primary School This came with the condition that the trust would provide the Education and Skills Funding Agency (ESFA) with a trust-level three-year financial plan. A note was made of the trust’s long-term strategy to grow beyond Tameside.  
  • The board approved the conversion of Marple Hall School and Romiley Primary School in Stockport to the Helix Academies Trust. A note on Marple Hall’s website states that the two schools will form the MAT together, with academisation expected in autumn 2024.  
  • The proposed formation of East Lancs Learning Trust, with two secondary schools to join it - Unity College and Sir John Thursby Community College - was approved with the condition that the trust was to provide the ESFA with a three-year financial plan. The board also approved for the newly proposed trust to sponsor Shuttleworth College in Lancashire under the same conditions.  
  • Horizon Academy Trust, a MAT with seven primary schools in Hull, was approved by the board to expand beyond the city into Lancashire. The trust will no longer be primary-only after the board approved the conversion of two secondaries - Lytham St Annes High School and McKee College House - to join it, alongside pupil referral unit Chadwick High School and Blackpool Sixth Form College. This is on the condition that the board appoints at least one trustee with MAT board-level experience in one or more “high quality” MATs, and that the CEO has training and development from an established CEO - with CEO or executive experience - in one or more high-quality MAT.  
  • The board approved the conversion of two primary schools (Our Lady’s Catholic Primary School in Warrington and SS Peter and Paul Catholic Primary School in Wirral) to join the Holy Family Catholic Multi Academy Trust, with the condition that a school resource management adviser would be deployed. The approval means that the trust is set to expand into Warrington for the first time.  
  • The board also gave the green light to three SATs joining MATs in the region: Kirkby Stephen Grammar School in Westmorland and Furness was approved to join Cumbria Education Trust, a 13-academy trust based in Carlisle. Hodgson Academy SAT in Lancashire was approved to join Horizon Learning Trust on the condition that there is the recruitment of an independent trustee onto the board with high-quality trust experience, and that the CEO is mentored by a high-quality MAT CEO. The Sutton Academy SAT in St Helens was approved to join the Challenge Academy Trust, an 11-school trust based in Warrington.
  • The London advisory board did not meet in November 2023.

Note: Published regional advisory board minutes do not contain full details of the school context.

Written and compiled by Matilda Martin

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