God’s own country has everything: beautiful countryside, derelict castles, cliff-hugging coastlines, bleak moors, quaint villages, winding waterways and post-industrial monsters of cities. Many of the most interesting episodes in English history have happened here: the Wars of the Roses, the English Civil War, the birth of the industrial revolution, the rise of the Labour movement. But when people think of Yorkshire they also think of the unusual: Bettys delightful tea rooms, cricket at Scarborough, the windswept steps of Whitby Abbey, and the steam railway of the Railway Children.
