Yorkshire Moors National Park

The Yorkshire Moors may not be one of the best known national parks, but the area includes some breathtakingly beautiful scenery, including vast expanses of open moorland, dramatic sea cliffs, sudden escarpments and hidden valleys.

This site is going to be my personal guide to the Moors, based on twenty years of walking in the national park. We will be building up a collection of suggested walks (fifty one at the moment), complete with maps and easy to follow instructions, each based on my own walks over the last few years, and illustrated by some of the thousands of photos I've taken on the moors.

The heart of the site is going to be the gazetteer, which we hope to develop into a complete guide to the Moors, supported by a series of maps created for this site. Gazatteer entries will be created as I visit the Moors, and expanded as more infomation is found, so keep coming back. We also hope to create a series of articles about the wildlife and history of the moors.

If you have any questions, then get in touch using our contact form and we'll get back to you as soon as possible.

Most recent addition: 13 May 2012: St. Mary's Church, Allerston, is a largely 14th century church, St. Mary Magdalene, Faceby, was rebuilt in 1875 on the site of a smaller 12th century church

At the end of July 2006 I walked Hadrian's Wall for the Perthes Disease Association.

Click on the map below to go to more detailed maps of the Moors, linked to our gazatteer.

Earlier updates

21 April 2012: All Saint's Church, Sinnington, is a 12th century church with a Victorian interior while St. Andrew's Church, Upleatham is a 19th century church built to replace an older building.

3 March 2012: All Saint's Church Ingleby Arncliffe and St. Cuthbert's Church Kildale are two nineteenth century churches built to replace earlier buildings

4 February 2012: Today we add twelve new pictures to our Wildlife Gallery.

15 January 2012: All Saints' Church, Hawnby, is a 14th century building located on a hill overlooking the River Rye, to the west of the main part of the village.

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