North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire is a county in in northern England. Yorkshire was a huge county, the largest in England, so it was traditionally divided into three "ridings" which were later re-organised into four counties.
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Essential Destinations

Top destinations include York and Middlesbrough.

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The ancient cathedral city of has a history dating back over 2000 years. Romans, Saxons, Vikings, and Britons from all eras have each left their mark.

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is a port on the River Tees at the north edge of North Yorkshire. It's industrial and in 2021 had a population of 143,900.

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is a resort on the North Yorkshire coast, with a population of 61,000 in 2024. It has two broad, sandy bays divided by a headland, with confident Victorian hotels ranged above.

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is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England. Its main attraction is the cathedral, and the nearby UNESCO World Heritage Site of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden. It’s also a good base for exploring the .

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is an attractive Regency / Victorian spa town in North Yorkshire, with fine public gardens, and on the edge of the . Its spa hotels have morphed into conference and "wellness" centres, and it's well stocked with good eating places, including the famous Betty's Tea Rooms.

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is a picturesque town on the coast of North Yorkshire. It was the home of Captain Cook, but is more famous as the place where Bram Stoker's Dracula landed in England.

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is the county town of North Yorkshire, with a population of 14,000 in 2024. It's a quiet market town with limited sights, but a possible base for touring the North York Moors, the Vale of York, and the northern part of the Yorkshire Dales.

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is a market town in North Yorkshire 14 miles south of York, with a population in 2024 of 20,000. Its main attraction is the abbey, with a stained glass window depicting the original "Stars and Stripes".

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is a market town in North Yorkshire in northeast England, with a population of just over 50,000 in 2021. It has an attractive old centre and is a good base for visiting the Yorkshire Dales.

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are a scenic upland area in North Yorkshire. They form a quadrilateral roughly 70 miles / 120 km on a side, bounded to the west by the Vale of York, to the south by the Vale of Pickering and to the east by the sea.

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is a market town in North Yorkshire, with a population of 15,000 in 2021. It has a sturdy castle and scenic canal; it's within a short travel time of the Leeds-Bradford conurbation and is on the southern edge of the , so it's a popular day-trip destination.

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is a market town in North Yorkshire, 23 miles north of , with a population of 5900 in 2021. It's best known for its racecourse and as the home of the veterinarian and author known as James Herriot.

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is a town in North Yorkshire, best known as a centre for brewing. It's about midway between Leeds and York, a commuter town for both, and in 2021 had a population of 5900.

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is a seaside town in North Yorkshire, England. It used to be a fishing village, catching sea trout from cobles, but it lacks a harbour: boats have to be dragged up the sands.

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is a market and agricultural town in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, with the rising behind. The town slumped from 1965 when it lost its railway, but this helped preserve its historic centre.

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is a picturesque market town in North Yorkshire. It's four miles east of , and bounded to the west by the deep gorge of the River Nidd. In 2024 the population was 16,500.

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The are a scenic area of limestone hills and valleys in North Yorkshire in the north of England. Much of the area falls within the National Park, which extends into neighbouring Cumbria and Lancashire.

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is a town in North Yorkshire on the north bank of the River Derwent, with Norton-in-Derwent on the south. They're 18 miles northeast of York with a combined population in 2024 of 15,000.

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is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, the town had a population of 2,421 in the 2001 census, increasing to 2,564 at the 2011 census.

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is a market town in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, with a population of 1348 in 2021. The main attraction in town is Castle, while Rievaulx Abbey is 3 miles west; the surround the town.

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is a town in North Yorkshire, England. It's a market town and commuter district for Middlesbrough and Redcar, with a population of 18,100 in 2021.

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is a small town in North Yorkshire at the tidal limit of the River Tees, with a population of 8700 in 2024. Its High Street has many handsome Georgian buildings.

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is a seaside town in North Yorkshire, 12 miles east of . It was a tiny fishing village until the 1860s when ironstone mining got started, and it was laid out as a resort and mineworkers' village on a grid pattern.

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is a village in North Yorkshire, with Gayle its southwest extension; in 2021 their population was 800. It's in Wensleydale, one of the , and is best known for making Wensleydale cheese.

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is a village in North Yorkshire set in karstic scenery: its best-known feature is the cliff of Cove. In 2021 its population was just over 200, which includes the neighbouring smaller village of Kirkby .

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is a small town in Wharfedale in North Yorkshire, set in the limestone scenery of the . You come here to browse in the cobbled market square and to hike the hills.

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is a village in North Yorkshire. With a population of 400 in 2021, it's set in the beneath the "Three Peaks", and is a stopover on the Pennine Way.

North Yorkshire

Latitude of center
54.1977° or 54° 11′ 52″ north
Longitude of center
-1.3939° or 1° 23′ 38″ west
Population
1,280,000
Elevation
85 feet (26 metres)
Geo­Names ID
11609043
Wiki­data ID
Q23086
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“North Yorkshire” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Noord-Yorkshire”
  • Arabic: “شمال يوركشاير”
  • Arabic: “يوركشاير الشمالية”
  • Aragonese: “Yorkshire d’o Norte”
  • Armenian: “Նորթ Յորքշիր”
  • Asturian: “North Yorkshire”
  • Azerbaijani: “Nort-Yorkşir”
  • Balinese: “Yorkshire Kalér”
  • Basque: “Iparraldeko Yorkshire”
  • Belarusian: “Норт-Ёркшыр”
  • Belarusian: “Паўночны Ёркшыр”
  • Bengali: “উত্তর ইয়র্কশায়ার”
  • Breton: “Norzh Yorkshire”
  • Bulgarian: “Северен Йоркшър”
  • Catalan: “North Yorkshire”
  • Cebuano: “North Yorkshire”
  • Chinese: “North Yorkshire”
  • Chinese: “北約克郡”
  • Chinese: “北約郡”
  • Chinese: “北约克郡”
  • Chinese: “北约郡”
  • Czech: “Severní Yorkshire”
  • Danish: “North Yorkshire”
  • Dutch: “Noord-Yorkshire”
  • Dutch: “North Yorkshire”
  • Esperanto: “Norda Jorkio”
  • Esperanto: “Norda Jorkŝiro”
  • Esperanto: “North Yorkshire”
  • Estonian: “Põhja-Yorkshire”
  • Finnish: “North Yorkshire”
  • French: “Yorkshire du Nord”
  • Galician: “North Yorkshire”
  • Galician: “Yorkshire Norte”
  • German: “Nord-Yorkshire”
  • German: “North Yorkshire”
  • Gujarati: “ઉત્તર યોર્કશાયર”
  • Hakka Chinese: “Pet Yorkshire”
  • Hebrew: “צפון יורקשייר”
  • Hindi: “नॉर्थ यॉर्कशायर”
  • Hungarian: “North Yorkshire”
  • Icelandic: “Norður-Yorkshire”
  • Indonesian: “Yorkshire Utara”
  • Interlingua: “North Yorkshire”
  • Irish: “Yorkshire Thuaidh”
  • Italian: “North Yorkshire”
  • Japanese: “ノース・ヨークシャー”
  • Japanese: “北ヨークシャー”
  • Kannada: “ನಾರ್ತ್ ಯಾರ್ಕ್ಷೈರ್”
  • Korean: “노스요크셔주”
  • Ladin: “North Yorkshire”
  • Latin: “Isuria Septentrionalis”
  • Latvian: “Nortjorkšīra”
  • Latvian: “Ziemeļjorkšīra”
  • Lithuanian: “Šiaurės Jorkšyras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Nord Yorkshire”
  • Macedonian: “Северен Јоркшир”
  • Manx: “Yorkshire Hwoaie”
  • Marathi: “नॉर्थ यॉर्कशायर”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “North Yorkshire”
  • Northern Frisian: “North Yorkshire”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “North Yorkshire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “North Yorkshire”
  • Norwegian: “North Yorkshire”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “North Yorkshire”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Yorkshire del Nòrd”
  • Ossetian: “Цæгат Йоркшир”
  • Persian: “یورک‌شایر شمالی”
  • Persian: “یورک‌شر شمالی”
  • Polish: “North Yorkshire”
  • Portuguese: “North Yorkshire”
  • Quechua: “North Yorkshire”
  • Romanian: “North Yorkshire”
  • Russian: “Норт-Йоркшир”
  • Russian: “Северный Йоркшир”
  • Scots: “North Yorkshire”
  • Serbian: “Северни Јоркшир”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “North Yorkshire”
  • Sindhi: “نارٿ يارڪ شائر”
  • Slovak: “North Yorkshire”
  • Slovenian: “North Yorkshire”
  • Spanish: “Yorkshire del Norte”
  • Swedish: “North Yorkshire”
  • Tajik: “Йоркшири Шимолӣ”
  • Tajik: “Норт-Йоркшир”
  • Tamil: “வடக்கு யோர்க்ஷிர்”
  • Telugu: “ఉత్తర యార్క్ షైర్”
  • Thai: “นอร์ทยอร์กเชอร์”
  • Turkish: “North Yorkshire”
  • Turkish: “Törensel North Yorkshire Kontluğu”
  • Ukrainian: “Північний Йоркшир”
  • Urdu: “شمالی یارکشائر”
  • Urdu: “نارتھ یارکشائر”
  • Venetian: “contea de North York”
  • Vietnamese: “Bắc Yorkshire”
  • Vietnamese: “North Yorkshire”
  • Volapük: “North Yorkshire”
  • Waray (Philippines): “North Yorkshire”
  • Welsh: “Gogledd Swydd Efrog”
  • Western Frisian: “Noard-Yorkshire”
  • Western Panjabi: “اتلا یارک شائر”
  • Western Panjabi: “نارتھ یارکشائر”
  • Wu Chinese: “北约克郡”
  • Yiddish: “צפון יארקשיר”
  • Yue Chinese: “北約郡”

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