Tim Barber's

Real Yorkshire Blog

Bringing "God's own county" to life

As the owner of Real Yorkshire Tours, I am always out and about in "God's own county" showing visitors the history, heritage & culture of the area. With this Real Yorkshire blog I hope to share some of this information and bring to life the best of Yorkshire.

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Heritage & Landscape

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Eat, Drink & Stay

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6 days ago
6 min

Dalesway Link – Harrogate to Ilkley walk

Over the course of the last few months, myself and my wife have been working through the various Dales Way link stages. The Dales Way wal...

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6 days ago
3 min

Norton Tower – a show of strength to protect their rabbits!

When driving back from the Yorkshire Dales on the stretch of road on the B6265 between Grassington and Skipton, there are three landmarks...

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Oct 6
3 min

The Lickerish Tooth Distillery – weird and wonderful gin making in Lythe near Whitby

Whilst helping renovate a cottage in Staithes over the last week, I have been forced to make a number of trips down the coast road to Whi...

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Oct 3
3 min

Shepherds Purse relaunch their Yorkshire Fettle to help support the UK’s Sheep milk industry

I’ve always been a fan of Shepherds Purse cheeses, being a particular fan of their Yorkshire Blue and Harrogate Blue cheeses. Having rece...

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Oct 1
4 min

Market Weighton to Londesborough - a Circular walk in the Yorkshire Wolds

This is a lovely 7 mile walk over easy terrain in the Eastern section of the Yorkshire Wolds. The Yorkshire Wolds is a relatively unknown...

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Sep 29
4 min

Fountaine Hospital – an architectural mystery in the Dales

The beautiful Yorkshire Dales village of Linton just a couple of miles from Grassington has everything you would expect from a village – ...

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Sep 25
3 min

The Navvies Memorial in Otley

This strange crenellated building on the edge of the West Yorkshire market town of Otley first caught my attention a few years ago. I’d b...

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Sep 20
4 min

Sir George Cayley – “the father of aerial navigation”

In my previous life running a marketing agency, I had the pleasure of working with a local precision engineering company called Produmax w...

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Sep 19
2 min

The Wishing Trees of Yorkshire - Who says money doesn’t grow on trees?

I was walking near Malham and close to Janet’s Foss waterfall along Gordale Beck I spotted a couple of old logs covered in coins. I’d spo...

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