Yorkshire's Historical Attractions By Tom Sangers Platinum Quality Author

There is hardly a place in the country where you can visit without stumbling over some great historical attraction, but when planning a visit to a location with the historical eminence of Yorkshire, it is important to consider the wealth of attractions in advance. This will allow you to arrange your trip so that you can comfortably see and enjoy each of the many meaningful sites that you hope to encounter. Preparing a potential plan of attack ahead of time will ensure the success of your trip.

The following are only a small sampling of the historical attractions to be found in Yorkshire. They are split into categories that may be more helpful to travelers trying to sort through the wealth of culturally enriching activities available to them. Yorkshire is home to hundreds of years of military, industrial, and literary history and a great many sites have been preserved for future generations. In addition, there are reenactments and interactive history events available for those visitors who wish to see history in action.

Museums

* National Railway Museum
* York Castle Prison at York Castle Museum
* MAGNA Science Adventure Centre
* Streetlife Hull Museum of Transport
* National Media Museum
* World of James Herriot
* JORVIK Viking Centre
* Bronte Parsonage Museum

Military Heritage

* Royal Armouries Museum
* Eden Camp
* Yorkshire Air Museum
* York and Lancaster Regimental Museum
* York Cold War Bunker
* Royal Air Force Holmpton Bunker Tours
* Richmond Castle

Churches

* York Minster
* Beverley Minster
* Ripon Cathedral
* St. Hildas Church
* St John the Evangelist
* The Church of St Michael and All Angels

Industrial Heritage

* UNESCO World Heritage Site of Saltaire and Salt's Mill
* National Coal Mining Museum
* The North Yorkshire Moors Railway
* Kirklees Light Railway
* Wilberforce House
* Bradford Industrial Museum
* Leeds Industrial Museum
* Wortley Top Forge
* W R Outhwaite and Son, Ropemakers
* Kelham Island Museum
* Coine Valley Museum
* Keighley and Worth Valley Railway

The Fellsman

Castles and Ruins

* Scarborough Castle
* Helmsley Castle
* Conisbrough Castle
* Skipton Castle
* Middleham Castle
* Richmond Castle
* Ripley Castle
* Roche Abbey
* Rievaulx Abbey
* Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal
* Bolton Abbey
* Whitby Abbey

Gardens and Parks

* Newby Hall and Gardens
* Sheffield Botanical Gardens
* Thorpe Perrow Arboretum
* Wenthworth Woodhouse Gardens
* The Harewood Himalayan Garden

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Walking in the Footsteps of Dinosaurs (And Smugglers) By Alan Moore Platinum Quality Author

Although the moors are rich with attractions, just exploring the coast around Whitby can be enough to occupy a whole holiday. Whether you have an interest in fossils, would like to see if you can find any of your own Whitby Jet, or would simply like to see some more of the small villages so unique to this part of North Yorkshire, Whitby makes an ideal starting point.

Robin Hood's Bay

Perhaps the best-known of the villages near to Whitby is Robin Hood's Bay. Nestled at the bottom of a very steep hill and surrounded by vertical cliffs, Robin Hood's Bay is one of the most charismatic and remote settlements on the Yorkshire coast.

First mentioned in 1536, Robin Hood's Bay was for many years an exceptionally self-contained and isolated fishing village, whose residents were almost completely self-sufficient. However, in the 17th and 18th centuries at least some residents must have had links further afield - as Robin Hood's Bay became infamous as the most active smuggling centre on the North Yorkshire coast.

Helped by their remote location and by the inhospitable moorland which surround their village, the fishermen of Robin Hood's Bay carried on a determined trade in illicit goods, often resulting in pitched battles with the local excise men - such were the potential profits of smuggling.

Virtually the whole community was behind the free traders' efforts, and it is said that contraband could pass from the bottom of the village to the top without leaving the houses, whose network of secret passages and storage rooms made life extremely difficult for Her Majesty's enforcement officers.

Eventually changes in duty levels made smuggling less attractive, and the introduction of motorised fishing boats made the Bay's small sailing cobles less economically-viable. The onset of World War I meant that many men left the Bay, and it proved to be the beginning of a period of decline for the area. Since then, however, tourism in the North Yorkshire Moors has continued to grow, and this has led to the purchase and sympathetic restoration of many of the Bay's old cottages as holiday lets.

Today, Robin Hood's Bay is a thriving small community, favoured by artists and writers and extremely popular as a holiday destination.

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