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 (88 in total) are listed below. Incidentally, all these trips are undertaken by train and bike; I don’t have or use a car.

  • Hull: Larkin about
    Britain’s favourite 20th-century poet (whose centenary is in 2022) wasn’t initially impressed by Hull. Nice and flat for cycling, was Philip Larkin’s…
  • Millington: Pump up the volume
    Britain’s best phone box is in East Yorkshire. The Wolds village of Millington boasts a disused K6 – the standard red cast-iron…
  • Scarborough: Benchmark resort
    Three relaxed days exploring ‘Britain’s first seaside resort’ in the winter sunshine. It boasts Britain’s longest bench, a science pioneer, Yorkshire’s fourth…
  • Filey: Brigg day out
    Filey Brigg is one of Yorkshire’s small-scale geological gems: a natural jetty of rock sticking out into the North Sea which, I…
  • Yorkshire’s Greenwich Meridian: Prime Factors
    East, West, Yorkshire’s best. We have everything here, including the very first bit of the Greenwich Prime Meridian: zero longitude, the dividing…
  • Sheffield: Rise and fall of the Paternoster
    We all have ups and downs, but a paternoster – half-escalator, half-lift – has both at the same time. Britain now has…