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

  • Map addict: Darlington to Whitby with an OS-meister
    My friend Mark Wedgwood is on a remarkable journey right now: cycling all 204 OS Landranger maps, in order. It’s a 7,000-mile…
  • Marston Moor: Civil liberty
    Three of Britain’s most decisive and pivotal battles were each fought a short bike ride from York, which probably explains it. I’ve…
  • Thorne: Going Dutch in Little Holland
    Little Switzerland; Little Germany; Little Canada; Little Denmark; Little Holland. Yorkshire contains many miniature foreign countries, and I’ve cycled the lot. Which…
  • Morley: Gone for a Beryl Burton
    ‘BERYL BURTON OBE / Was a cycling phenomenon’, states the blue plaque in Morley town centre. The ‘Yorkshire housewife’ (as they called…
  • Dark matter: York to Bridlington night ride
    ‘Night riding has a strange fascination of its own,’ opined a recent Cycling Plus article. ‘It’s not about the views, for obvious…
  • Huddersfield Narrow Canal: Picking locks
    I’ve cycled most of Yorkshire’s canals, from the aquatic urban highway of the Leeds and Liverpool, to the backwaters of the Pocklington….