Challenging
The Wainstones and Hasty Bank
Rocky tors, a stretch of the Cleveland Way and a big view over the Cleveland plain.
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Challenging
Easy
Challenging
🏰 History & heritage
🏰 History & heritage
🏰 History & heritage
Mount Grace Priory
The best-preserved Carthusian monastery in England, with a reconstructed monk's cell and Arts and Crafts gardens.
The Carthusians lived as hermits within a community, each monk in his own two-storey cell with a garden, and Mount Grace shows this better than anywhere. One cell has been fully reconstructed and furnished. The house built into the priory guesthouse has Arts and Crafts interiors, and the gardens have been recently restored.
Walks nearby
Challenging
Easy
Cod Beck Reservoir circular
A gentle lap of a pine-fringed reservoir on good paths; half the route is accessible for wheelchairs.
Challenging
Lyke Wake Walk
The famous 40-mile challenge across the moors from west to east coast, to be completed inside 24 hours.
More history & heritage
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Ryedale Folk Museum
Open-air museum of rescued moorland buildings: cottages, workshops, a chapel and a Victorian shop.
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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.