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The historic market town of Pickering (formerly known as Piceringas and Pykering) is situated between York and Scarborough. Providing the official gateway to the beautiful North York Moors National Park. Also known to many as the North Yorkshire Moors.

The town draws a large number of visitors (mostly during the summer months), many are day trippers visiting the North Yorkshire Moors Steam Railway (the longest steam railway in England). The Beck Isle Museum is also a major visitor attraction with its unique collection of black and white photography and displays of rural life.

Pickering Castle
This splendid motte-and-bailey castle is well-preserved, with much of the original keep, towers and walls remaining. There is an exhibition in the chapel.

Take the opportunity of a day trip with a difference and the chance to visit PICKERING – a busy market town, GOATHLAND village – perhaps better known as Aidensfield in YTV’s Heartbeat, LEVISHAM – with its beautiful forest drive and walks, GROSMONT – a genuine 1950s railway junction where you can take a break in the station café, visit the engine sheds and view the locomotives under restoration and on many days throughout the year, journey onwards to the historic port of WHITBY.

Whitby is dominated by the cliff-top ruins of a beautiful 13th century Abbey. This quaint maritime town, with its old cobbled streets, picturesque houses and sandy blue flag beach, is set among fine stretches of coast with spectacular cliffs and bays

199 steps lead down from the Abbey to the old town where you find yourself in a shoppers’ paradise. With an array of unique shops offering local crafts, famous Whitby Jet jewellery, maritime memorabilia and antiques, you are sure to find that holiday treasure.

A selection of diverse attractions includes the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Victorian Jet Works, the Dracula Experience and Whitby Museum, which offers a cabinet of curiosities from geology to jet carving, birdlife to bygones and costumes to clocks.

The ancient and stupendous castle, once the glory, and still the ornament of Scarborough, was built in the reign of King Stephen, by William le Gros; Earl of Albemarle and Holderness. Here Piers de Gaveston, the favourite of Edward II. sought refuge against the exasperated barons, but after a short siege, he was obliged to surrender for want of supplies, and lost his head, as already related, in the castle of Dedington.

Robert Aske, the leader of the Pilgrims of Grace, made an unsuccessful attempt upon Scarborough Castle, in 1536. In the time of Wyat's rebellion, in 1553, it was surprised and taken by the stratagem of introducing a number of soldiers, disguised as peasants. This achievement was performed by Thomas, second son of Lord Stafford, but his success was of short duration, three days afterwards the place was retaken by the Earl of Westmoreland, and Stafford; and three other of the leaders were conveyed to London, and executed for high treason.