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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.
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The 199 Steps and St Mary's Church
Whitby's famous stairway from the old town to the church and abbey on the East Cliff.
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Helmsley Castle
Medieval castle with a shattered keep, Tudor mansion and Civil War history in the middle of the town.
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Pickering Castle
Well-preserved motte-and-bailey castle used by medieval kings as a hunting lodge.
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Mount Grace Priory
The best-preserved Carthusian monastery in England, with a reconstructed monk's cell and Arts and Crafts gardens.
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Kilburn White Horse
Yorkshire's hill figure, cut in 1857 and visible from the A1 on a clear day.
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Rosedale ironstone kilns and railway
Industrial ruins along a level railway trackbed high above Rosedale, now one of the finest walks on the moors.
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Nunnington Hall
Sheltered manor house on the River Rye with walled gardens, peacocks and the Carlisle collection of miniature rooms.
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Beck Isle Museum
Museum of rural life in a Regency house beside Pickering Beck, with a reconstructed street of shops.
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Byland Abbey
Vast Cistercian ruin with a great rose window, once one of the largest churches in Europe.
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Whitby Museum and Pannett Park
Wonderfully old-fashioned museum of fossils, ships, whaling and the Hand of Glory, in a park above the town.
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Captain Cook Memorial Museum
The house on Grape Lane where the young James Cook lodged as an apprentice, now a museum of his voyages.
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Duncombe Park
Baroque country house and parkland on the edge of Helmsley, with a National Nature Reserve of ancient trees.
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Whitby jet
The black gemstone of Whitby, carved here since the Bronze Age and made famous by Queen Victoria.
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Ampleforth Abbey
Working Benedictine monastery with a visitor centre, tea room, orchard and cider made by the monks.
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Castle Howard
One of the grandest houses in England, in 1,000 acres of parkland fifteen minutes from the moors.
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St Gregory's Minster and Kirkdale Cave
A Saxon church with the finest pre-Conquest sundial in England, beside a cave full of Ice Age hyenas.
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Cawthorn Roman Camps
Four Roman military earthworks on the moor edge north of Pickering, with a waymarked trail.
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Wheeldale Roman Road
A mile of ancient paved trackway across the moor, long thought Roman, now a pleasing mystery.
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Lilla Cross
The oldest Christian monument on the moors, marking where a thane died saving King Edwin in 626.
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Shandy Hall
The house where Laurence Sterne wrote Tristram Shandy, now a museum and garden.
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Mouseman Visitor Centre, Kilburn
The workshop of Robert Thompson, whose oak furniture carries a carved mouse, still made in the village.
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Rievaulx Terrace
A curving grass terrace with two Georgian temples and framed views down onto Rievaulx Abbey.
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Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum
The village schoolroom where James Cook learned to read and reckon, now a small museum.
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Gisborough Priory
The soaring east end of an Augustinian priory church rising above the market town of Guisborough.
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Old Coastguard Station, Robin Hood's Bay
National Trust visitor centre on the slipway with exhibits on the bay's geology, wildlife and smugglers.
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Ravenscar alum works and National Trust centre
The remains of a 17th-century chemical industry on the cliffs, and the story of the resort that never was.
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Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum
Underground tours of a real ironstone mine in the village of Skinningrove on the coast north of Staithes.
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St Peter and St Paul, Pickering
Parish church with a complete cycle of 15th-century wall paintings, whitewashed over and rediscovered in 1852.
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Staithes Heritage Centre
A reconstructed Staithes street of 1745 and the story of the young James Cook and the Staithes painters.