Yorkshire

A great place to start!

A big Yorkshire welcome to our expanding independent guide to the most scenically diverse region of the UK, produced for you right here in Yorkshire.

Scroll down this page to get up to date with what is going on in Yorkshire and some of the newest additions to Yorkshire.guide

Find your way around Yorkshire.guide

If you’re new to Yorkshire see what it has to offer on our Introduction page.

We have now added more than 1,000 places to our A to Y Gazetteer of Yorkshire. We've listed the cities and towns and now many of the villages, with links to pages providing more information or to pinpoint villages on our unique Yorkshire map.

The Home button links you to many other parts of Yorkshire.guide

And look below for our frequently updated page with some of our newest items about Yorkshire issues and events in more detail .......

York's ghosts haunt city gardens

Ghostly appearances will be found in the York Museum Gardens and other locations around the cityGhostly figures have returned to York and will be appearing in the city's gardens through October.

The popular annual Ghosts in the Gardens event, enhancing York's reputation as a haunted city, features a trail of see-through sculptures in gardens and around historic sites. A map of the trail can be downloaded from the York BID website or picked up at the visitor centre at Back Swinegate.

The Ghosts In The Gardens trail continues until Sunday November 1. The ghosts' stay in the city is extended for a few more days when around 70 sculptures also feature in a ticketed illuminated evening event "Ghosts After Dark" around the York Museum Gardens, King's Manor Courtyard and Library Lawn from November 4 to 8.

Find out more about the trail at this Ghosts in the Gardens page at the York BID website.

York

Yorkshire.guide/York

Open studios in Beverley

Beverley where more than 40 artists will open their studios over two weekendsAround 40 artists in Beverley will be opening up their studios and art spaces over two weekends this October.

Spread around venues in the East Riding county town, painters, potters, printers, photographers, jewellers and framers will be showing their work in their creative places over the weekend of October 3 and 4 and again on October 10 and 11 with free entry between 10am and 4pm each day. Organisers have created a map to guide visitors to the studios.

Find out more at the Beverley Open Studios website

Beverley

Yorkshire.guid/Beverley

Book-lovers treat at Ilkley Literature Festival

King's Hall is one of the festival venues All Saints' Church hosts festival eventsIlkley Literature Festival provides a 17-day treat of more than 90 events in the West Yorkshire town in Wharfedale between Friday October 2 and Sunday October 18.

One of the best-loved festivals of its kind in the North of England, it includes digital events as well as live talks by poets, authors and writers on stage. Events take place at several venues around Ilkley including Ilkley Playhouse, King's Hall, All Saints' Church, Ilkley Grammar School and Clarke Foley Centre.

Find out more at the

Ilkley Literature Festival website.

Ilkley

Festival of Words in East Riding

Toll Gavel Church in Beverley is one of the venues Several authors will be introducing books at Bridlington SpaThe Festival of Words is under way in the East Riding and continues until next Saturday (October 10).

Popular and new authors will be giving talks at several locations across the East Riding during the festival organised by East Riding Libraries and the festival also includes craft workshops and a poetry competition.

Events are taking place in libraries and various other venues including Toll Gavel Church and the Guildhall in Beverley, Bridlington Spa, Newbald Village Hall, Brough Petuaria Centre, Driffield Centre and Pocklington Arts Centre.

More information at this

East Riding Libraries - Festival of Words web page.

Cottingham

Trams operating only half way to Halfway

Trams are not operating all the way to Halfway Sheffield Supertram services continue to be disrupted on the blue line as investigations continue into a shaft which opened up beneath the tracks at Birley Lane in late August. Trams continue to operate as far as Gleadless Townend with replacement buses between there and Halfway.

Updated details can be found at this Travel South Yorkshire - Supertram web page.

Tour de France Grand Départ in Yorkshire in 2027

The Tour de France heads towards Holme Moss in West Yorkshire in 2014More route details for the women's races have been announced as the Tour de France Grand Départ returns to Yorkshire in 2027.

The prestigious event boosted a massive interest in cycling in Yorkshire when the men's race Grand Départ was held in Yorkshire in 2014.

The Tour returns with the first two days of the women's race next year while the men's Scotland to Wales Grand Départ also reaches into historic Yorkshire.

The first day for the Tour de France Femmes will start at The Headrow in Leeds on Friday July 30, 2027, to head via Birstall , Heckmondwike , Mirfield and a hill climb to Kirkheaton before reaching Huddersfield .

Day 1 of the women's racing will cross the Pennines above the Dove Stone Reservoir near GreenfieldThe race then heads out towards the Pennines towards Meltham with a climb to Wessenden Head to cross the Pennines, passing the Dove Stone Reservoir to reach Greenfield and Uppermill . The third hill climb stage will be at Delph on the way to a finish at Deansgate in Manchester.

The following day the race will head back from Manchester through the Peak District on a winding and hilly route through Derbyshire, including Buxton, Hope, Castleton and Glossop before climbing the Snake Pass to the Ladybower Reservoir, climbing back into Yorkshire for a route via Low Bradfield and Worrall before ending at Attercliffe Common in Sheffield .

The third day of the women's race will be in London before the cyclists head off to France.

WaddingtonNewton-in-BowlandDunsop BridgeThe earlier men's Grand Départ will also be in Britain and briefly dips into historic Yorkshire on its second day on Saturday July 3 as it heads through the Forest of Bowland National Landscape via the historic West Riding villages of Dunsop Bridge , Newton-in-Bowland and Waddington , a route along which there will hopefully have been some road repairs by the now-responsible Lancashire County Council.

The men's Tour de France 2027 enters historic Yorkshire at the Trough of Bowland boundary stoneThe Yorkshire section begins with the descent from the Trough of Bowland after the second of five mountain stages on the Tour de France ride through England on Day 2. It also includes the highest point of the day, the third King of the Mountains climb up the "Côte de Waddington Fell" to 347 metres at around the mid-point of the race. After Waddington, cyclists cross the River Ribble to the Lancashire town of Clitheroe.

Day 1 of the men's race heads from Scotland to England with a stage from Edinburgh to Carlisle. The short stretch of historic Yorkshire is on the Keswick to Liverpool stage on Day 2. The third day is in Wales with a stage from Welshpool to Cardiff.

Peak District Forest of Bowland

Awesome abbeys

Fountains Abbey, near RiponSawley AbbeyAbbeys and priories are a magnificent reminder of the region's wealth of history.

They can be found in abundance across Yorkshire, all providing rich pieces in a historic jigsaw showing the part these monastic communities played in the region between the 12th and 16th centuries.

You can find out more about Yorkshire’s monastic settlements on our Abbeys page, including which ones have free access and which require a ticket to visit.

Abbeys

Yorkshire mixture

Here are links to a few of the most popular pages at Yorkshire.guide:

Cities

Largest towns and cities

Railway stations

On Ilkla Moor Baht ’at

If you’re from Yorkshire you will probably recognise our background picture as the Cow and Calf Rocks on Ilkley Moor, famous as the location of the Yorkshire dialect anthem "On Ilkla Moor Baht ’at". More on Ilkley .

Yorkshire news topics

ARCHIVED

News archive 2025 : News from 2025.

News archive 2024 : News from 2024.

News archive 2023 : News from 2023.

News archive 2022 : News from 2022.

News archive 2021 : News from 2021.

News archive 2020 : News from 2020.

News archive 2019 : News from 2019.

News archive 2018 : News from 2018.

News archive 2017 : News from 2017.

Also in Yorkshire.guide

Home Travel Places to visit
Webcam Map Film locations