North Yorkshire Cottage for Rent in North Yorkshire Moors

A traditional hill sheep farm in the beautiful surroundings of the North York Moors National Park.

1 Bedroom    1 Bathroom    Sleeps 2    Children Welcome    Some Pets Allowed    No Smoking
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North York Moors

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

North York Moors National Park is a National Park in the north of England. Its size is 1,436 km² (554 square miles), and it is one of the largest expanses of heather moorland in the United Kingdom. It has a population of about 25,000 ¹

History

The North York Moors bacame a National Park in 1952, through the National Parks and Access to the Countryside Act of 1949.

Economy

The area's economy is mainly comprised of tourism and agriculture.

Tourism

Many visitors to the moors are engaged in outdoor pursuits, particularly walking; the parks has a network of rights-of-way almost 2300 km (1400 miles) in length, and most of the areas of open moorland will be open access under the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000. Popular named walks included the Cleveland Way, which circles the moors, and has a section along the coast; and the Lyke Wake Walk, which leads directly across the heart of the moors.

The area also offers opportunities for cycling, mountain biking, and horse-riding. The steep escarpments that define the edges of the park on three sides are used by several gliding clubs.

Attractions

• North Yorkshire Moors Railway
• Cleveland Way National trail (long distance footpath)
• Lyke Wake Walk (long distance footpath)
• Forge Valley NNR National Nature Reserve
• Farndale LNR Local Nature Reserve
• Yorkshire Wildlife Trust Reserves: Ashberry Pastures, Bridestones, Ellerburn Bank, Fen Bog, Garbutt Wood, Hagg wood Marsh, Hayburn Wyke, Littlebeck.
• River Seven, River Dove, River Rye, River Seph, River Esk

Entertainment

The moors have a not changed much in the past 50 years, and are often used a backdrop to British television programmes and films. Heartbeat and the scenes of The Hogsmeade Station were filmed in Goathland.

Geography

The area is very well defined; on three sides rampart-like escarpments rise up from the flat Yorkshire countryside, whilst the fourth (eastern) side is a cliff-edged coast.

80% of the Park's area is in private ownership and 40% is farm land.

Hills

• Urra Moor, the highest point
• Cringle Moor
• Roseberry Topping

Towns

There are few major settlements within, or around, the National Park; Helmsley, Pickering, Kirkbymoorside, and Whitby, which is often regarded as the capital of the North York Moors. The moors are within a reasonable distance of Redcar and East Cleveland.

Whitby is linked to Middlesbrough via a railway along the Esk Valley. The Esk Valley Line itself links with the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, one of Britain’s most popular and picturesque preserved railways, at Grosmont.

Other towns in the moors include Hutton-le-Hole, Goathland, and Rosedale.

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