On the road between Pateley Bridge and Grassington just outside Greenhow lies a curious structure with the remnants of a stack chimney...

Nestled in the woodland close to Swinton Bivouac on the Swinton Park Estate lies a huge stone circle which looks like the sort of...

After visiting a friend in Barwick in Elmet, I remembered years ago he’d mentioned the remains of a motte bailey castle behind the local...

Nothing to do with the Led Zeppelin song of the same name, I stumbled on the book The Gallows Pole by Benjamin Myers in a book store in...

Living in Burley in Wharfedale, I spend a lot of time on Ilkley Moor with my dog and love exploring the wild moorland. So when a friend...

I had read about a Leper Hospital in Ripon, so last summer having dropped off some overseas visitors at The Old Deanery next to Ripon...

I have loved fossil hunting since being a child and over the years with my kids I have spent hours scouring the beaches around Staithes...

Riding on the coat tails of smash-hit period dramas such as BBC’s Downtown Abbey and ITV’s Victoria, Netflix released its own romp...

One of my favourite buildings in Leeds is situated just on the edge of Park Square near the Town Hall. Having taken my son into Leeds for...

One of my first jobs after leaving University was for the Clothing Industry Training Board (CAPITB), which used to be based in Pudsey,...

Deep in the heart of Nidderdale’s Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) towards the top of the Nidd Valley and in the shadow of Great...

As a student living in Headingley in the 1980s, I walked past the strange towers looking like a mini castle on Cardigan Road many times....

Having pretty much exhausted walks around Burley in Wharfedale where I live during lockdown, it was satisfying to find a walk I hadn’t...

An old rugby pal of mine from London decided to pay a visit to Yorkshire with his family before Covid struck. We ended up going with his...

A small unassuming brick built building dating from the 1600’s, situated just off the road between Addingham and Bolton Abbey has found...

William Bradley – often known as “The Yorkshire Giant” or “Bradley the Giant” was born in Market Weighton in the East Riding in 1787 and...

Theakston’s Brewey based in the Yorkshire Dales market town of Masham has been brewing ale since 1827. It is still run by direct family...

My good friend and Yorkshire author, Colin Speakman has written an article for The Real Yorkshire Blog on the history of the Yorkshire...

After the recent Black Lives Matter protests around the world it was quite apt when one of my fellow guides, Nick Smith, the owner of Yor...

After being blessed with great weather for the first couple of months of the pandemic, Wednesday saw the weather change and as we parked...