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Patches of purple heather just down from Easy Moor, looking across Cockshaw Hill to the profile of Roseberry Topping, near Great Ayton in North Yorkshire.
The distinctive half-cone shape with a jagged cliff, lends itself to being compared with the much higher Matterhorn in the Swiss-Italian Alps.
However, with a height of 1,049 feet (320 m), Roseberry Topping is but a bump in the landscape compared against the real thing whose summit soars to 14,692 ft (4,478 m).
The countryside just now reflecting the season of summer beginning to wind down, making way for autumn arriving in just over a week.
Great views from up here on a clear day making it definitely worth while bring the binoculars (and a camera!).
#england #yorkshire #northyorkmoors #greatayton #summer #september #landscape #photography

At the top of Sutton Bank, near Thirsk in North Yorkshire, there is a walk along the west-facing escarpment with views across the Vale of York and over to the Pennines.
The author James Herriot famously described the vista from here as "the finest in England!"
Far off on the horizon, if it is clear enough, you should have little trouble in spotting the cooling towers of the Drax Power Station complex near Selby, roughly halfway between Leeds and Hull.
The poet William Wordsworth (the chap who loved wandering lonely as a cloud) and his wife Mary walked to the Sutton Bank clifftop on their wedding day in October 1802 and was so inspired by the view he wrote a sonnet.
Oddly enough, his lines make no reference to the Drax Power Station!
#england #yorkshire #suttonbank #view #landscape #wordsworth #thirsk #photography

A path well royally trodden – framed in the lychgated entrance, the Church of St Mary and St Alkelda in the North Yorkshire village of Middleham, near Leyburn in Wensleydale.
Grade I listed, the ancient church dates from the 13th century and was where Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later Richard III) once worshipped.
King Richard spent several years during his childhood at Middleham Castle and which later became one of his royal homes.
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What better way to celebrate Yorkshire day on 1st August than with a yomp up on Ilkley Moor (baht 'at?)

Late summer on a moorland means HEATHER, which is always delightful to see.

Plenty more images from this day, just waltz this way -> https://www.iancylkowski.com/posts/ilkley-moor-west-yorkshire-summer/ 👍

#landscape #nature #travel #summer #uk #britain #england #yorkshire #yorkshireday #ilkley #moor #photography #photo #photographie

The Kettlewell scarecrow festival – in pictures

'The two-week event celebrates the creativity of the Yorkshire Dales village and has gone from strength to strength since beginning as a fundraiser for the local primary school in 1994'

#photography #FestivalPhotography #quirky #fun #Kettlewell #Yorkshire #UK

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2026/aug/09/the-kettlewell-scarecrow-festival-in-pictures

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Welcome to north England's ONLY chalk coastline: Flamborough Head and Bempton Cliffs.

Last time I visited this area was 2015, so I was WAY overdue a revisit. Pretty lovely, eh?

There's plenty more photos from this day, just head hither -> https://www.iancylkowski.com/posts/flamborough-east-riding-yorkshire-summer/ 👍

#landscape #nature #travel #summer #yorkshire #seascape #uk #britain #england #photography #photo #photographie

A busy summer's day along St Ann's Staith on the Whitby waterfront in North Yorkshire.
I know the town can become a bit rammed at this time of the year, but many of the local businesses depend on the footfall and it would be a totally different kind of Whitby without the holiday makers and day trippers.
Note the 'Dracula Experience' which draws on the town's connection with the 1897 Bram Stoker Gothic horror novel 'Dracula'.
In more recent years, the theme sees two 'Goth Weekends' taking place with a music festival and gathering attendees dressing up in elaborate gothic, steampunk, and Victorian attire.
The narrow historic streets and famous 199 Whitby Abbey steps become something of an open-air catwalk.
On a personal note, the location connects with my love of Cornwall and fondness for a real authentic Cornish pasty, thanks to the Proper Cornish Pasty Co's shop!
#whitby #whitbyabbey #yorkshire #northyorkshire #august #summer #photography

A perfectly peaceful scene in Hawes, Wensleydale and the Grade II listed Church of Saint Margaret of Antioch, where in the nearby pasture, 'sheep may safely graze' (cue JS Bach!).
This North Yorkshire market town is associated with the eponymous cheese, made using traditional recipes handed down from French monks in the 12th century.
No small thanks to the stop-motion claymation characters 'Wallace and Gromit', created by Nick Park at Aardman Animations, that Wensleydale cheese is probably known around the world with Wallace famously adoring its taste and flavour and proclaiming to Gromit to it being a particularly "Cracking cheese!"
#england #yorkshire #wensleydale #wensleydalecreamery #yorkshiredales #landscape #photography