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Roseberry Topping circular
Short, steep and hugely rewarding: the classic climb to the moors' most recognisable summit.
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Photo: Prioryman, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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🏰 History & heritage
🏰 History & heritage
🏰 History & heritage
Gisborough Priory
The soaring east end of an Augustinian priory church rising above the market town of Guisborough.
The great east window of Gisborough Priory, 30 metres high, is one of the most dramatic monastic fragments in the north, standing at the end of the town's market street with the moors behind. The Bruce family, ancestors of Robert the Bruce, founded it in 1119. The grounds include an Elizabethan dovecote and the Priory Gardens, and the town has a Thursday and Saturday market.
Walks nearby
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Great Ayton to Captain Cook's Monument
A climb from Cook's boyhood village to the obelisk on Easby Moor, with Roseberry Topping across the valley.
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Highcliff Nab and Guisborough Forest
Forest tracks to a rocky viewpoint over Guisborough, the sea and the whole northern moor edge.
More history & heritage
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Whitby Abbey
Dramatic Gothic ruin on the East Cliff that inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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Rievaulx Abbey
One of the most complete and beautiful Cistercian abbeys in England, in a wooded valley near Helmsley.
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Ryedale Folk Museum
Open-air museum of rescued moorland buildings: cottages, workshops, a chapel and a Victorian shop.