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 (161 in total) are listed below. Incidentally, all these trips are undertaken by train or bus (if necessary) and bike; I don’t have or use a car.
- Wold Newton: Losing the Gypsey Race
The poetically named Gypsey Race is East Yorkshire’s most enigmatic watercourse. One that only works part-time, like me, and keeps disappearing unpredictably,… - Thankful Yorks 1: Helperthorpe
The Great War of 1914–18 resulted in the loss of almost 900,000 of Britain’s men. Every city, town and village suffered casualties…. - North Ferriby: Don’t stop the boats
A quick visit today to the village I grew up in, North Ferriby just outside Hull, to see what has put it… - Ousefleet: Britain’s emptiest experience
Fans of Ordnance Survey maps – particularly the 204 of the classic Landranger series that cover Britain – spend hours looking for… - Whitgift: Thirteen to the dozen
If Yorkshire was a clock face, the area roughly at half past four – the string of villages on the south bank… - Yorks’ longest street and shortest: Beverley Rd to Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate
Whip-ma-whop-ma-gate, in York, is always cited as Yorkshire’s shortest street. What about the longest? Google’s AI suggested Beverley Road, in Hull. So…
- Everthorpe: Benchmark for Britain’s maps 30 January 2025
- Sheffield: Dutch courage 17 January 2025
- Cottingham: Going large 23 December 2024
- Sykehouse: Long story 21 December 2024
- Oulston: May the Foss be with you 30 November 2024
- Yorks’ least used station to most: Rawcliffe to Leeds 27 November 2024
- Yorks coast 4: Kilnsea to Spurn Point 7 November 2024
- Yorks coast 3: Bridlington to Kilnsea 6 November 2024
- Yorks coast 2: Whitby to Bridlington 5 November 2024
- Yorks coast 1: Redcar to Whitby 4 November 2024
- Tile Maps 4: Driffield 29 October 2024
- Altared images: Yorks’ Biggest Church to Smallest 22 October 2024
- Holgate: No trouble at t’Mill 18 October 2024
- Bishop Wilton: The famous secret village 13 September 2024
- Mastiles Lane: In the droving seat 14 August 2024
- Yorks County Towns 3: York to Wakefield 1 August 2024
- Yorks County Towns 2: York to Beverley 15 July 2024
- Yorks County Towns 1: York to Northallerton 8 July 2024
- Driffield: Yorkshire’s smiling Bletchley Park 12 February 2024
- Rufforth: Journey to the Centre of the Earth II 24 January 2024
- City job: A York End to End 5 January 2024
- Ouse Gill Beck: Ouse Ure friend? 25 November 2023
- Pontefract: Liq of the lips in liquorice town 10 November 2023
- Hull Cycle Museum: When the bicycle rained 24 October 2023
- Slow Wharfedale: Timewarps with JBP 22 October 2023
- Slow Three Peaks: Cafe ups and downs 16 October 2023
- Markenfield Hall: Home sweet 14th-century home 10 October 2023
- Searching high and low: A vertical York end-to-end 4 October 2023
- Slow Masham: Otherness out of this world 22 September 2023
- Slow Nidderdale: Gorging on views (hedgehogs on bananas) 21 September 2023
- Slow Sedbergh: Chapter and verse on the book town 8 September 2023
- Market Weighton: Grand col du Tour de Bretagne 5 September 2023
- Slow Swaledale: Tales of trails, dales and ales 28 August 2023
- Whitton Island: Yorkshire’s Surtsey 22 August 2023
- Slow Kirkby Stephen: Variations on a theme of Frank’s Bridge 18 August 2023
- Slow Wensleydale 3: Say cheese (or squirrels) 11 August 2023
- Slow Wensleydale 2: Cantering round Middleham 10 August 2023
- Slow Wensleydale 1: Snail’s Pacer 9 August 2023
- Slow Malham: Craven behaviour 3 August 2023
- Solar System 2: York’s other unique planets model 29 July 2023
- Solar System: York’s on a different planet 24 July 2023
- Harrogate: Cherry blossom polish 29 April 2023
- Tile Maps Trail 3: Whitby to Middlesbrough 21 April 2023
- Tile Maps Trail 2: Scarborough to Pickering 20 April 2023
- Tile Maps Trail 1: York to Scarborough 18 April 2023
- Middleton: Steamy experience at world’s oldest railway 10 April 2023
- Kirkdale: Yorkshire’s secret micro-Minster 4 April 2023
- Barnsley: All mine 29 March 2023
- Thornborough: Henge fund 17 March 2023
- Masham: The genuine fake Druid’s Temple 17 March 2023
- Swanland: Thinking outside the phone box 8 March 2023
- Goodmanham: Fired up 14 February 2023
- Helmsley: Star line-ups 2 February 2023
- Ripon: Up secret valleys, down Cathedral rabbit holes 23 January 2023
- Castle Howard: Bridleway Revisited 20 January 2023
- Goathland: Spouting off about time travel 6 January 2023
- Whitby: A Gothic-Horror hill 5 January 2023
- Map addict: Darlington to Whitby with an OS-meister 31 August 2022
- Marston Moor: Civil liberty 29 August 2022
- Thorne: Going Dutch in Little Holland 6 July 2022
- Morley: Gone for a Beryl Burton 28 June 2022
- Dark matter: York to Bridlington night ride 14 June 2022
- Huddersfield Narrow Canal: Picking locks 28 March 2022
- Cockayne: It’s far out, man 10 March 2022
- Wakefield: Rhubarb, rhubarb 25 February 2022
- Yorkshire Whisky Trail 2: York to Filey 24 January 2022
- Yorkshire Whisky Trail 1: Pateley Bridge to York 21 January 2022
- Hull: Larkin about 29 December 2021
- Millington: Pump up the volume 21 December 2021
- Scarborough: Benchmark resort 16 December 2021
- Filey: Brigg day out 15 December 2021
- Yorkshire’s Greenwich Meridian: Prime Factors 10 December 2021
- Sheffield: Rise and fall of the Paternoster 22 November 2021
- British Library: Book now for Yorks’ hidden research gem 2 November 2021
- Norber: Erratic behaviour 26 September 2021
- Dean Head: Cutting remarks 2 September 2021
- Lake Semerwater: Welcome to Lake Lakelakelake 16 July 2021
- Buttertubs: You’ve done the Pass, now try the beer 15 July 2021
- Thirsk: Thoroughly vetted 8 July 2021
- Emmerdale: The village that doesn’t exist 26 June 2021
- Bingley Arms: Time to chill at Britain’s oldest pub 26 June 2021
- 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