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E: York to Bridlington

Posted on 21 April 20172 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

The third of my Yorkshire Compass Rides was a wind-assisted glide through the Wolds to seaside Bridlington, and the eastern promontory of Flamborough Head. It included the area’s most scenic downhill, a Roman Road, a lighthouse-rich chalkberg, and a land train. There’s always something nice about returning home. Less so this morning, though, as I…

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S: York to Harthill

Posted on 4 April 20172 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

The second of my Yorkshire Compass Rides took me south to the county’s most obscure extremity, and was a day of planets, power stations, pints, and a place called Wales. I rode south alongside a mirror-flat Ouse out of York and down the planets trail, a fantastic scale model of the solar system where the…

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N: York to Redcar

Posted on 3 April 20172 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

The first of my Yorkshire Compass Rides was a glorious day offering some characteristic Yorkshire views – stately homes; the North York Moors; beaches with hardy bathers; closed factories; and penguins. I headed north out of York through the misty Howardian Hills (pic). They take their name from the Howard family, who still own much…

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Skipsea: Till the coast crumbles

Posted on 22 September 201622 May 2022 by Rob Ainsley

Yorkshire’s Holderness coast is one of the strangest places to cycle in Britain. I spent today wandering the lanes round Skipsea (pic), south of Bridlington. Many old people – in other words, me – remember when these linked up with roads running along the clifftop. I cycled along them thirty years ago on my Raleigh…

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Tan Hill Inn: Drink up

Posted on 7 June 20152 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

Yorkshire reckons it’s got the best of everything. All the stuff that counts anyway. France may do better philosophy, Germany engineering, and the Philippines know how to do nail bars. But for the best cricket, the best beer, the best scenery, the best people… well, it’s got to be the broad acres. (There are famously…

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Beverley: Wolds apart

Posted on 19 May 20152 August 2025 by Rob Ainsley

Beverley (picture), at the edge of the gentle Wolds, is one of our great secrets: a fine, characterful Georgian market town with its own brand of Yorkshireness. While it has plenty in common with the county’s other market towns such as Richmond – a fondness for turning potentially pedestrianised-showcase market squares into car parks, for…

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Market Weighton: Tall stories

Posted on 18 May 20152 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

A key to understanding Yorkshire is that nothing else, anywhere, will ever be as good as it is in God’s Own Country. (That’s what Yorkshire people call Yorkshire. It’s not what God calls it, but obviously His opinion doesn’t count as much as, say, Fred Trueman’s.) Think, for example, of the farmer whose land straddled…

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Haworth: Novel experiences

Posted on 11 March 20152 April 2021 by Rob Ainsley

The most literary place in the world is an old vicarage in Haworth. Many countries in the world are proud enough to boast one major author. Well, this West Yorkshire village boasts three: in the 1840s, the parsonage was home to Emily, Anne and Charlotte Brontë. Which means this one building (pop. 6) has produced…

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Middlesbrough: Playing bridge

Posted on 22 June 201218 February 2021 by Rob Ainsley

Middlesbrough, Yorkshire’s northernmost industrial town, is home to an iconic Transporter Bridge (pic) – one of only eight or so in the world still operating. It’s quite a metaphor for the area, and possibly for me: heavy, old-tech, struggling to grind on into the 21st century. Transporter Bridges were constructed around the turn of the…

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