Yorkshire Partners

Learn More About York & Yorkshire

For your benefit, we are pleased to include some useful links to places that we visit on our tours, local tourist information offices in York and some of the towns we visit.

Visit York Tourist Information Centre – you can book guided tours of York, save money on museums and attractions in York and arrange your accommodation in York at competitive prices using this website: www.VisitYork.org

Visit Helmsley Tourist Information – we love Helmsley and travel to this beautiful market town on two of our three tours. www.VisitHelmsley.co.uk

Yorkshire Dales – we visit the Yorkshire Dales on our “Yorkshire Dales & Fountains Abbey” tour. Find out more about the Dales here: http://www.yorkshire-dales.com

North York Moors National Park – the amazing North York Moors features on two of our tours. One of Britain’s treasured National Parks, you can find out more about the area and how it is managed at www.northyorkmoors.org.uk.

There’s more information about the Moors here: http://www.north-york-moors.com

You can also read information, look at maps and find out about spending more time in the North York Moors by visiting www.yorkshirenet.co.uk/yorkshire-moors/

Whitby is probably the jewel of the Yorkshire coastline – a seaside fishing town of real charm, where Captain James Cook learned the art of seamanship and the location which helped to inspire Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Find out more about Whitby at their tourist information website, www.VisitWhitby.com

Goathland is better known to many as ‘Aidensfield’ from the ITV drama ‘Heartbeat’. The pretty village is preserved in its 1960s style and you can still visit the Aidensfield Arms, Scripps Garage and the Aidensfield Stores. Goathland Station featured in ‘Heartbeat’ and ‘All Creatures Great and Small’, but is now best known for its starring role in the Harry Potter Films as ‘Hogsmeade Station’. You can learn about this charming railway station from the volunteers who look after it at their website, Goathland Station

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway is one of the most successful heritage railways in the world. The railway is almost entirely staffed by enthusiastic volunteers, running a daily schedule of steam trains and heritage diesels on a route through the North York Moors. Their website has information about the railway, its history, its volunteers and its timetable: www.NYMR.co.uk

Castle Howard – one of Britain’s finest stately homes and the filming location for ‘Brideshead Revisited’ on TV and film. We run tours to Castle Howard twice every week during the summer season (March – November) and three times every week during the festive season from late November until Christmas Eve. Find out more about Castle Howard here.

Rievaulx Abbey – founded in 1130, the Cistercian Abbey ruins are located only a few miles from Helmsley and feature on our twice-weekly ‘Castle Howard, Rievaulx and the Moors’ tour. Find out about visiting Rievaulx Abbey here.

Fountains Abbey – another Cistercian Abbey, founded only a few years after Rievaulx, is located close to Ripon on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales. Our twice-weekly “Yorkshire Dales and Fountains Abbey” tour includes time for you to explore Europe’s best-preserved monastic ruins and the surrounding water gardens of Studley Royal Park. Read about Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal here.