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 (80 in total) are listed below. Incidentally, all these trips are undertaken by train and bike; I don’t have or use a car.
- 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… - Bingley Arms: Time to chill at Britain’s oldest pub
We pub pretty well in Yorkshire: 3,725 of them in all (or only 17, if you believe Wikipedia). These include not just…
- North Cave Wetlands: Gravel is for the birds 23 June 2021
- Football: Coming home to an odd-named place 21 June 2021
- Yorks B to B 2: Malton to Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge 4 June 2021
- Yorks B to B 1: Humber Bridge to Malton 2 June 2021
- Hambleton Drove Road: Always wanting moor 29 May 2021
- Yorks A to Z 4: Grassington to Zebra Hill to Piercebridge 22 May 2021
- Yorks A to Z 3: Halifax to Grassington 21 May 2021
- Yorks A to Z 2: Abbeydale to Halifax 20 May 2021
- Yorks A to Z 1: Abbeydale 19 May 2021
- Pocklington Canal: Shaken, but not stirred? 7 May 2021
- Brimham Rocks: Yes it does 26 April 2021
- Coldstones Cut: Yorkshire’s Machu Picchu 26 April 2021
- Barwick Green: Bow to the Archers 10 April 2021
- Hornsea: Mere bagatelle 3 April 2021
- Wentworth Woodhouse: 150 receps, 150 beds, lge gdn, needs tlc 30 March 2021
- Wharram Percy: Just deserts at a DMV 29 March 2021
- Barkston Ash: Tree cheers for the centre of Yorkshire 20 March 2021
- York: A very good sign 17 March 2021
- Rudland Rigg: Track and trace 19 December 2020
- Kilburn: Best white horse by a long chalk 14 December 2020
- Eboracum: All roads lead to Roman York 8 September 2020
- Rudston: Village of standing 8 September 2020
- Kiplingcotes: Course of history 1 September 2020
- Ure 3: York to Faxfleet 11 August 2020
- Ure 2: Ripon to York 8 August 2020
- Ure 1: Garsdale to Ripon 7 August 2020
- Swale 2: Northallerton to Myton 29 July 2020
- Swale 1: Keld to Northallerton 28 July 2020
- Nidd 2: Knaresborough to Nun Monkton 4 March 2020
- Nidd 1: Scar House to Knaresborough 2 March 2020
- York: Floody but unbowed 17 February 2020
- Hunmanby: Good spirits 11 December 2019
- Derwent 3: Kexby to Barmby 22 November 2019
- Derwent 2: Malton to Kexby 21 November 2019
- Derwent 1: Lilla Rig to Malton 20 November 2019
- Aire 2: Shipley to Airmyn 10 October 2019
- Aire 1: Malham to Shipley 9 October 2019
- Cottingley: Fairy story 9 October 2019
- Nun Monkton: Lighter moments 21 September 2019
- Wharfe 2: Bolton Abbey to Cawood 21 August 2019
- Wharfe 1: Beckermonds to Bolton Abbey 20 August 2019
- Bradford: Currying favour with cyclists 18 July 2019
- Ingleton: Peak blinders 21 February 2019
- Calder 2: Dewsbury to Castleford 11 January 2019
- Halifax: Calder mobile 10 January 2019
- Calder 1: Cornholme to Dewsbury 10 January 2019
- Easingwold: Narrow escape 20 December 2018
- Don 2: Sheffield to Goole 27 November 2018
- Don 1: Dunford Bridge to Sheffield 26 November 2018
- Ilkley: On Ilkla Moor baht ’elmet 8 November 2018
- Malham: Welcome to Norway 2 June 2018
- NW 3: Grinton to High Force 17 October 2017
- NW 2: Ripon to Grinton 16 October 2017
- NW 1: York to Ripon 15 October 2017
- Hessay: Journey to the Centre of the Earth 29 July 2017
- W 3: Slaidburn to Dunsop Bridge 27 July 2017
- W 2: Harrogate to Slaidburn 26 July 2017
- W 1: York to Harrogate 25 July 2017
- SE 2: Ferriby to Spurn Point 12 June 2017
- SE 1: York to Ferriby 11 June 2017
- NE 2: Thornton-le-Dale to Robin Hood’s Bay 1 June 2017
- NE 1: York to Thornton-le-Dale 31 May 2017
- SW 2: Grange Moor to Saddleworth 6 May 2017
- SW 1: York to Grange Moor 5 May 2017
- Hebden Bridge: Hip operations 26 April 2017
- E: York to Bridlington 21 April 2017
- S: York to Harthill 4 April 2017
- N: York to Redcar 3 April 2017
- Skipsea: Till the coast crumbles 22 September 2016
- Tan Hill Inn: Drink up 7 June 2015
- Beverley: Wolds apart 19 May 2015
- Market Weighton: Tall stories 18 May 2015
- Haworth: Novel experiences 11 March 2015
- Middlesbrough: Playing bridge 22 June 2012