Yorkshire’s Historic and Beautiful Seaside Resorts
East Yorkshire sits on the North Sea, and has quite a few seaside resorts.
If at the coast, read about how to keep dogs safe by the seaside.
The small village of Robin Hood’s Bay (old cottages look over a windswept harbour) is where you paddle your toes, to mark the end of Wainwright’s Coast-to-Coast Walk, which begins in St Bees (Cumbria).
The oldest seaside resort in England is Scarborough (when local resident Elizabeth Farrow stumbled upon the healing waters of a local stream in 1626.
Other popular seaside resorts are Whitby (climb the 199 steps that lead up to the abbey), Saltburn-by-the-Sea (home to England’s oldest funicular railway) and Bridlington (popular with wild swimmers).
Characterful Towns and Cities of Yorkshire
Hebden Bridge is a unique hill town in West Yorkshire that (along with Whitstable in Kent) has more independent shops than anywhere in England. This hilly town used to have so many textile mills that it was called ‘trouser town!’ Many writers and artists make here their home.
Leeds features Roundhay Park (one of England’s biggest), York is beautiful city with cobbled streets and a Gothic cathedral and Sheffield (with a steel heritage) is near the Peak District National Park.
Bradford is ‘the curry capital of England!, and Kingston upon Hull is full of winding streets and historic pubs, sitting on the Humber Estuary.
Smaller cities include Wakefield (near the Pennines), Doncaster (a lively market) and Ripon (Yorkshire’s smallest city, with a 7th century cathedral)
