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The Malton Harvest Food Lovers Festival, an autumnal counterpart to the Spring Food Lovers Festival, celebrates Yorkshire‘s finest produce and culinary delights, focusing on seasonal autumn offerings. Anticipate a bounty…
Mark Bibby Jackson does some guided walking in the Yorkshire Dales with HF Holidays to Gordale Scar and Bolton Abbey. I’ve never been a great fan of footwear. Barefooted is…
Mark Bibby Jackson goes on an escorted Yorkshire walk organised by Solos Holidays, visiting Ripon Cathedral, Fountains Abbey and Brimham Rocks. There is no more appropriate setting for the Theakston…
The VW Festival returns to Harewood House in August. The festival involves live music, food and entertainment as well as the best in vintage – and modified – VW automobiles. It attracts in excess…
This July will mark the twentieth anniversary of arguably the most famous crime writers festival in the UK. The Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival will run from 17 to…
Neil Hennessy-Vass visits Middlethorpe Hall and Spa near York, and enjoys the elegant proficiency. Middlethorpe Hall and Spa is an elegant building with a large simple garden where deer roam…
The family friendly, UK food festival returns to Roundhay Park in Leeds, West Yorkshire for the eighth time in May. The North Leeds Food Festival celebrates local and international food…
On his recent tour along the Hockney Trail in Yorkshire, Mark Bibby Jackson checks in at Sandburn Hall and goes for a stroll around the grounds of Castle Howard. In…
Celebrate the Great Outdoors with the annual Walking East Yorkshire Festival held from 11 to 19 September, 2021. The walking festival highlights the Yorkshire Wolds landscape…
Imagine an English wine tour and thoughts might naturally turn to Hampshire, Kent or Sussex. But from this summer, there’s a new kid on the block… Yorkshire. And an East…
One of the UK’s most popular attractions, North Yorkshire Moors Railway, has announced the success, and the closure of, its ‘Crisis Appeal’, which was set up to support…
Gusts of wind as strong as 90mph are hitting the UK as Storm Ciara wreaks havoc on the country’s travel and sporting events on Sunday, 9 February. More than 150…
Hull city centre is set to light-up during a spectacular three-day event celebrating the city’s rich seafaring heritage this month – while predicting the weather will never be the same…
The National Portrait Gallery in London, will stage the first major exhibition devoted to David Hockney’s drawings in over twenty years, between February 27 and June 28…
The Yorkshire Dales Cheese Festival held in October is a celebration of Yorkshire cheese and its recent revival. Events include: a 5.5 mile guided walk through the countryside …
The Rhythm & Brews Festival is a new beer and music festival held in September to celebrate the diverse and talented pool of North East musicians, as well as regional…
Held in late August to early September, the Freedom Festival Hull is the flagship event in the former UK City of Culture’s festival calendar. Now in its 16th year and…
Actors, writers, poets and even a few journos will descend upon the West Yorkshire Victorian spa town of Ilkley in October for the Ilkley Literature Festival, which celebrates its 50th…
From unlocking secret art to ‘boots and beer’ treks and a “Hockney Country’ ramble, plus the chance to walk two long-distance routes over new daily stages, the ninth Yorkshire Wolds…
Mal Tattersall samples the delights of the Saddleworth Whit Friday Band Contests, to discover much to enjoy in Yorkshire brass band contests. There’s an intriguing sign hanging on a red…
Wish you could dance, sing or play an instrument, but don’t know where to start? Whitby Folk Week this August may be just what you’re looking for. There are more than three hundred events…
The North Yorkshire town of Whitby is famed for its fabulous fish and chips, that and a nautical traditional that includes Captain Cook. So, why not combine the two together…
A medieval market town littered with fine examples of Georgian architecture, Mark Bibby Jackson discovers that Beverley is steeped in tradition with the Beverley Minster…
On a trip to the North York Moors, Mark Bibby Jackson encounters in the Farmhouse a wonderful conversion with breathtaking views and great food that will eventually lead to Switzerland…
They call it God’s Own Country, and not without reason. For Yorkshire is blessed with some of the most dramatic senery in the UK, as well as numerous historic monuments.
One of the most spectacular ruins in the county is Whitby Abbey. It’s here that Dracula is reputed to have landed, just above the town when Captain Cook lived. The town is now best known for its wonderful fish and chips, as well as its nautical tradition, both of which are celebrated in the Whitby Fish and Ships Festival.
With both the Yorkshsire Dales and the North York Moors as national parks, the walking opportunities across the county are numerous and varied. You can also join the Yorkshire Wolds Outdoors Festival. Or how about following the footsteps of David Hockney in admiring the breathtaking scenery.
York is the county town, and has a rich history as well as arguably the most beautiful cathedral in England, in the York Minster. Hull is also a wonderful city to visit, especially if you pop into the house of William Wilberforce, who devoted his life to help abolish slavery. Neighbouring Beverley is a beautiful Georgian town with its beautiful Beverley Minster and a great festival of Christmas.
Festivals across the county venture from music, to cultural and food. The town of Malton is known as a bit of a foodie nirvana and for its annual Malton Food Festival. Other festivals of note include: Whitby Folk Week, Ilkley Literature Festival, Freedom Festival Hull, and the Rhythm and Brews Festival.
For music you should try to take in to a Yorkshire Brass Band. Finally, how could we leave the county without paying refence to its most famous culinary delicacy – the Yorkshire Pudding. Although any self-respecting Yorkshireman would claim that Yorkshire ales are the best in the world. You certainly can’t go far wrong with a pint of Old Peculiar!
