North Yorkshire

Some background for your North Yorkshire visit or North Yorkshire holiday

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Encompassing all of the North Yorkshire Moors national park and the majority of the Yorkshire Dales national park North Yorkshire is the largest county in the country.

The North Yorkshire moors became a national park in 1952 and is one of the largest expanses of heather moorland in the UK and contains 700+ scheduled ancient monuments (a 'nationally important' archaeological site or historic building, given protection against unauthorised change) amongst the many thousand archeological sites in the area.

Covering an area of 1,762 square kilometres (680 square miles) the Yorkshire Dales was established in 1954 and though principally in North Yorkshire also stretches into both West Yorkshire and Cumbria across the Central Pennines. It got is name because it is comprised of a large number of river valleys or 'dales' (from the Danish word for valley).