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The Moors
The North Yorkshire Moors
Staithes is within The North York Moors where you can experience a landscape where stunning moorland, ancient abbeys and picturesque villages live side by side in such perfect harmony. It will take your breath away.
Goathland Station
A must-see is the celebrity station which became Hogsmeade Station in the first Harry Potter film and featured as Aidensfield in the ITV programme Heartbeat. The charming village of Goathland is just a few minutes’ walk up the bank from the station, with a great range of shops and pubs. You could explore the national park; embark on a country walk along the Rail Trail back to Grosmont or to the Mallyan Spout Waterfall. Goathland Station has its very own shop, and has a tea room which is in a converted 1922 style goods shed.
Danby
The bustling moorland village of Danby lies in the Esk Valley, below the warm, south-facing slopes of Danby Low Moor. Come by train for a day out on the Esk Valley Railway, and visit The Moors National Park Centre where events, activities, walks, and picnics on the lawns await.
The Moors National Park Centre
½ mile from Danby with plenty of things for Young and Old with the inspired by Gallery, an outside adventure playground, woodland trails and more.
Lealholm
The name means ‘the settlement by the willow trees’ – is sited in a lovely location on the banks of the River Esk. It’s a beautiful scene but it’s no accident that the village is here. It developed around a handy crossing point, just downstream from a deep and treacherous ravine, and the handsome 17th-century bridge and the village stepping stones (not to mention an earlier ford) all indicate that people have found it convenient to cross the Esk here for centuries.
The rushing waters of the Esk also provided the farming village of Lealholm with another source of prosperity in earlier times. A corn mill was established in the 14th century – its successors operated until just after the Second World War – and there was a thriving paper mill here in the 19th century
There are a couple of tea rooms and a lovely nursery for garden plants.
