List of Yorkshire Ridings posts

I explore my home county of Yorkshire by bike whenever I can, and when I visit somewhere I find particularly interesting, I blog about it. All Yorkshire Ridings posts (81 in total) are listed below. Incidentally, all these trips are undertaken by train and bike; I don’t have or use a car.

  • Norber: Erratic behaviour
    ‘Norber Erratics’. Jazzband collective? Invitation cricket touring XI? No, another Yorkshire scenic gem: strange rock formations in Three Peaks country, near Ingleborough….
  • Dean Head: Cutting remarks
    England’s highest motorway; Britain’s biggest single-arch bridge; Europe’s deepest roadway cutting; a farm stranded in the middle of the M62. Welcome to…
  • Lake Semerwater: Welcome to Lake Lakelakelake
    Torpenhow Hill in Lancashire is sometimes said to the most redundantly named thing in Britain, because all four elements (tor, pen, how,…
  • Buttertubs: You’ve done the Pass, now try the beer
    Jeremy Clarkson calls Buttertubs Pass one of his favourite roads, but that won’t put me off. Because Buttertubs is, indeed, one of…
  • Thirsk: Thoroughly vetted
    Both the 1980s and 2020s TV settings of All Creatures Great and Small, James Herriot’s heartwarming tales of a vet’s life in…
  • Emmerdale: The village that doesn’t exist
    Of all 57 Yorkshire dales, Emmerdale is the best-known. Which is remarkable, as it doesn’t exist. Emmerdale is, of course, fictional: the…