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Whitby Abbey
Gothic ruin high on the East Cliff, with 1,300 years of history, a museum in Cholmley House and the view that helped inspire 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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Eden Camp Modern History Museum
Award-winning Second World War museum in a genuine prisoner-of-war camp on the edge of Malton
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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 A19 and the main railway line 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 Cistercian abbeys in Britain.
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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
Vanbrugh's baroque palace in the Howardian Hills, with 1,000 acres of gardens, lakes and temples, a famous Christmas, and the Arboretum across the road.
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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
Believed to be the oldest standing cross 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 building on the slipway at Robin Hood's Bay, with exhibits on the bay's geology, wildlife and smugglers. Its future is under review.
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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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Land of Iron (Cleveland Ironstone Mining Museum), Skinningrove
Guided tours of the old Loftus ironstone mine buildings and drift entrance 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.
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Kirkham Priory
Ruined Augustinian priory with a magnificent carved gatehouse beside the River Derwent
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Ormesby Hall
Georgian mansion of the Pennyman family on the edge of Middlesbrough, with a model railway and parkland walks
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Kirkleatham Museum
Local history museum in a Queen Anne mansion, with the Saxon Princess treasures and 20 acres of grounds
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Whitby RNLI Lifeboat Museum
Free volunteer-run museum on Pier Road telling the story of Whitby's lifeboats and their famous rescues
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Rotunda Museum
Circular 1829 geology museum built to William Smith's design, home to Gristhorpe Man and the Jurassic Coast's fossils
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Scarborough Castle
Medieval royal castle on the headland between Scarborough's two bays, with 3,000 years of history and huge views along the coast