ON LOCATION
NORTH YORKSHIRE
Hill, Dale and Coast From gently bucolic to rugged and wild, this vast county’s scenery enchants
A direct train from London’s King’s Cross to York takes just under two hours. From York, use local services or hire a car to explore.
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orth Yorkshire is England’s largest county and one of its most beautiful and remote. It contains neither motorways nor cities, and more than 40 per cent of its area is taken up by National Parks: most of the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors lie within its boundaries. The vet and author James Alfred Wright, better known as James Herriot, was born here in 1916
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and wrote the area into popular culture with his books about life in the Yorkshire Dales. In works including It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet, he captured the reputation of those who live here: hardy, modest, careful with money. Later television adaptations showed off the unspoilt scenery at its very finest. While North Yorkshire’s rural identity and bitter winters demand a certain rigour, the spa town of Harrogate is altogether more refined. It owes its
