Yorkshire Day
In honour of Yorkshire day today we want to know what are your favourite things to do in Yorkshire? Including places to visit, best sites to stay and favourite places to eat.
Share your recommendations and photos in the discussion below. 
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Never heard of it!
Yorkshire Day is celebrated on 1 August to promote the historic English county of Yorkshire. It was celebrated in 1975, by the Yorkshire Ridings Society, initially in Beverley, as "a protest movement against the local government re-organisation of 1974".
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It’s not a County I’ve visited much but I know it’s produced some very good things and people. Where would we be without flat caps, curd tarts, Geoff Boycott and Compo? 👍🏻
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I love the Yorkshire Dales as we live within an hour of the most beautiful walking country.
Wharfedale is the site we use when visiting the area. It's within easy walking distance to some fine eateries serving first class ales and food.
Eateries have to include the Red Lion at Burnsall, the Fountainne Inn at Linton.
Walking has to be the number one thing to do in the area with amazing things like Malham Cove, Gordale Scar, Janet's Foss etc., etc. to see.
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…and we mustn't forget Yorkshire pudding 😃
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We don’t particularly celebrate it, but then we live here. We appreciate its diversity of landscape, it’s swathes of remote moorlands, it’s nice little villages, quirky towns. Great coastline. Full of history, as evidenced by the many castles, Abbeys, big houses. The four regions are very different, with their own building styles and building materials. Not forgetting of course that it’s coalfields and iron and steel works very much shaped a great deal of this country’s past.
Yorkshire folk are quite forthright as well. Tell it like it is.
Favourite place.......Levisham Station, deep in a North York’s valley, around 11pm at night, listening to owls hooting and foxes screaming, and then you hear that ghostly whistle a couple of miles down the track. Five minutes later, something resembling a dragon puffs into view, and the Sir Nigel Gresley makes a graceful stop and you realise that it was worth sitting in the dark to see such a glorious sight!
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County of broad contrasts from beautiful coastlines, offering everything from peace and solitude to Kiss Me Kwik hats in Scarborough, to lush wide, green, valleys in the Dales to the peaks of Ingleborough, Penyghent and Whernside. Beautiful karst scenery as a result of the massive depth of the limesone hiding away hundreds of caves and potholes behind the ancient dry stone walls. There is literally something for everyone.
Favourite site...North York Moors for peace and solitude.
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Timothy Taylor Beer, Whitby Fish and Chips, Flamborough's Cliff nesting birds, Dry Stone Walls, Walking, Local produce and the pride that goes into making it, History both prettified and the down and dirty stuff, Did I mention the Walking?, Diversity.
Even the locals grow on you after a time.😊😊
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Ooo, I love Parkin. Mum used to make it with a mix of black treacle and golden syrup, lovely and rich and sticky.
I always think that one of the nicest things about visiting different parts of the country is trying some of the local food. The part of Wales we stayed in in June seemed to major on Eccles Cakes. I also like the big flat oatcakes you get in Derbyshire, and the heart attack inducing Macaroni Pies in Scotland!
Perry’s Nursery located in Ruswarp is on the banks of the River Esk. The gardens and tea room are lovely, and we like to have an afternoon tea, in the garden watching the steam trains go past to Whitby, and folks rowing on the river. Dog friendly as well.
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Havent you all forgot the two men you mentioned .had a mate who wore a white coat ?
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Dickie Bird. His statue enjoys lots of fancy dress and decoration on a regular basis?😂
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some very good people, Geoff Boycott and Compo
Among others!!
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NOT for the easily offended or less than 18yr olds.
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plus walking the city walls in York,
Just a pity that one can't do it with one's dog!!
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1. Swan Farm CL: walking to either Whitby or Robin Hood's Bay via the cinder path from the site and then having a meal upon our return in the Hare and Hounds pub, which is virtually opposite the site.
2. The coastal cliff walks all the way down the Yorkshire Coast.
3. The Victoria Hotel in Robin Hood's Bay (our first weekend away together in our pre-caravanning days😁)
4. Fish and chips in Whitby: we've tried loads of different places and they've all been great so don't waste time queuing at that well known place.......
5. The distant sea views from Monks Farm CL or a private site called Lound House Farm- once you've navigated the tight winding roads!
6. Rhubarb
7. The local accent
8. Hole of Horcum- wonderful walking!
9. Staithes: walking the cliffs from Skinningrove and then recovering with a crab sandwich and pint of cider in "The Cod and Lobster"
10. The drive across The Moors
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No, they were definitely Eccles Cakes, I tried the Welsh cakes as well. I remember them because Dad loved them, rich flaky pastry and packed full of currants. I asked in the bakery in the village where we were staying, Llangwril, and then I noticed that a lot of the locals had Lancashire and Liverpudlian accents. Apparently the village had a lot of retirees who had moved into it after a lifetime of enjoying holidays in Wales, and some of their favourite foods had followed them. It was a lovely place.
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Staying up near Bolton Castle, after performing in the annual "Medieval Music in the Dales" event there last year, we were seriously awed by Swaledale. Not scenery for the faint hearted!
So we were very saddened to see all the reports of the horrendous flash flooding there at present. It's rare to see a Yorkshire sheep farmer in tears, but that's what he was, after the wreckage of everything he'd worked for.
Let's hope the area recovers. They're very resilient folk, though nothing in anyone's experience has prepared them for these latest effects of climate change.Favourite parts of the county - too many to name here, and for me, it's the accent of my mother's side of my family too, so that's another favourite.
... though I can't resist adding that working several times in Shibden Hall, long before "Gentleman Jack" was conceived as a programme, was hugely enjoyable. It really is just as shown on the screen!
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The county day of Kent is May 26th, the feast day of Augustine.
Insecure eh?
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Tinny - I did not know we had one nor do I need it.
I know who I am , where I am and to heck with officialdom!
Seems to me that local Mayors need an excuse to have a jolly or two at the taxpayers expense.
Tunbridge Wells has just got rid of it's leader whose vanity project was a theatre capable of hosting shows direct from the West End of London at a cost of £90m. It also included a brand new town hall.
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Let’s not get political here.
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The amazing waterfalls and scenery of Wensleydale. Both photos taken a short walk from the Hawes CAMC site.
Theakstons Old Peculiar at the Crown,in Hawes. Fruit Cake made with OP, served with Wensleydale Cheese, at the tea shop in Muker, Swaledale.
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Apologies for being a day late - only just seen this - but here's a bit more of Yorkshire tradition - look here
If anyone needs a translation of Wezzy-speak, just ask
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https://youtu.be/ItcedKDZF0E
