I regularly stop for lunch at Simonstone Hall on my way up and over Buttertubs during my tours of the Yorkshire Dales. My guests are...

Winter Solstice We have to look back much further than the nativity to start exploring the origins of winter festive celebrations. In...

I’d walked on part of Simon’s Fell during my Yorkshire 3 Peaks Challenge in May but never actually reached its summit. As it’s one of the...

Sitting a few miles outside Wakefield are the ruined remains of Sandal Castle. There is not much of the stonework left but the moat and...

One of the most iconic sights in Yorkshire has to be the huge viaduct stretching 400 metres across the Ribble Valley which forms part of...

Most people head out from Ilkley up onto the Moors above White Wells or The Cow and Calf, but walking up on the Moors over the other side...

On my tours of the Yorkshire Dales, I often stop in Masham sitting on the River Ure to show guests around the town before heading into...

My pal Glen has a restaurant just off Wellington Street called The Good Luck Club. The area is in a newly developed, vibrant part of...

Every September, one of my school pals comes up to Yorkshire with his partner for a week’s break in Middleham. Over the years I have been...

I regularly walk my dog on Otley Chevin and walking up from the East Chevin Quarry Car Park to Surprise View, I often pass a long...

These small tablets of liquorish are synonymous with Yorkshire but what is the story behind these strange black confectionary disks,...

Having arrived back in Yorkshire after a week’s holiday in Northumberland, we still had a Friday off. To end our break in style I had...

On a recent walk along the Yorkshire Wolds Way from Wintringham, I stumbled upon a wonderful public artwork. The walk started in...

Whilst driving up to Bamburgh for a few days break with my wife, we decided to stop in Bedale for a bit of lunch. Looking at a tourist...

If you mention Yorkshire cheese – most people would immediately think of the crumbly Wensleydale cheese made famous by Wallace and...

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...

In late July there was a flurry of activity on social media about the launch of a Yorkshire Wine Trail. Whilst I was aware of Yorkshire...

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...

I’d heard lots of people raving about the Leeds based restaurant Home, situated where the old Darbar Indian restaurant once was in...