
North York Moors Highlights
Heather moorland, a wild coast, Cistercian ruins and a steam railway make the North York Moors National Park an easy place to plan a first visit.
Walks, villages, the steam railway, Whitby and the folk museum: a reader's guide to the North York Moors. Every guide lists the sources it was checked against; the festival archive keeps the pages first published on this domain.

Heather moorland, a wild coast, Cistercian ruins and a steam railway make the North York Moors National Park an easy place to plan a first visit.



Born as a weekend of folk music in 1965, Whitby's August festival now fills the town with song, sessions, ceilidhs and dancing for a week.

Thatched cruck houses, a Rosedale glass furnace and old village workshops tell 4,000 years of moorland life in one of Yorkshire's open-air museums.

Where the sessions and the May weekend took place: Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Botton Village and Danby Dale.

The four-day May bank holiday weekend of 2013 at Botton Village in Danby Dale: the guests, the venues and the village.

Monthly acoustic afternoons in Saltburn and the Christmas ‘Yorkshire Wassail’ shows of carols, songs and stories.



