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Fat Betty: BU2682a
| North Yorkshire Moors National Park
The North Yorkshire Moors National Park became the first national park in North Yorkshire in 1952. Two years before the Yorkshire Dales National Park in 1954.
The North Yorkshire Moors National Park covers an area of upland stretching over 1432 square kilometres. It is famous for it’s areas of heather moorland which grows 200 metres above sea level.
The national park has many picturesque villages, none more famous than Goathland. Goathland, near Whitby, is ’Aidensfield’ in the television show ’Heartbeat’. There is also a stretch of coastline on the park’s eastern boundary on which you can find the villages of Ravenscar, Robin Hood’s Bay, Runswick Bay, Sandsend and Staithes. These villages are steeped in history and have their own sea-faring and smuggling tales to tell. Inland, Castleton, Danby, Hutton-le-Hole and Rosedale are traditional moors villages, surrounded by hills and moorland, ideal for walkers. No trip to the moors is complete without a springtime visit to view the Farndale daffodils.
Lyke Wake Walk
The Lyke Wake Walk is a 40-mile challenge walk across the North Yorkshire Moors from Osmotherley to Ravenscar to be completed in less than 24 hours. Bill Cowley laid down the challenge in an article in ‘The Dalesman’ in August 1955. Within four months, the first successful walk took place and the Lyke Wake Club was formed, which is open to anyone who completes the walk in the allotted time. On the route a many strange stones such as Fat Betty. Many of these stones were way markers to provide assistance for travellers or were boundary stones which marked the boundary of a landowners estate. Moors Railway
The North Yorkshire Moors Railway is an 18-mile stretch of preserved steam railway. It has been run as a living museum since 1974. The track runs from Pickering to Grosmont through the heart of the North Yorkshire Moors National Park calling at Levisham, Newton Dale and Goathland.
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