History & heritage
Waterfalls and packhorse bridges, steam engines and abbey ruins, tea gardens and moorland viewpoints. Filter by type or by village.
History & heritage
Beggar's Bridge
A graceful 17th-century packhorse bridge built, so the story goes, by a sailor for the sweetheart the river kept him from.
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Whitby Abbey
The gaunt Gothic ruins on the headland above the harbour, inspiration for Dracula and site of a 7th-century monastery.
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Captain Cook Memorial Museum
The 17th-century house where the young James Cook lodged as an apprentice, now a museum of his life and voyages.
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Danby Castle
A fortified 14th-century manor that was home to Catherine Parr, and still the seat of a working manorial court.
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Duck Bridge
A 14th-century packhorse bridge over the Esk, narrow, humped and still in use by walkers and cyclists.
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Hunter's Sty Bridge
A medieval packhorse bridge over the infant Esk, restored by the Victorians in fine Gothic style.
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St Hedda's Church
The "Cathedral of the Moors": a richly painted Catholic church holding relics of the martyr Nicholas Postgate.
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Wade's Causeway
A mile of mysterious stone causeway across Wheeldale Moor, long called a Roman road, and still argued over.