Midi playing: She believes   Goathland 7 miles south-west of Whitby Sheep graze on the coarse grasses where the moors come right among the greystone houses of this straggling village. A series of huge greens - more like heathland than conventional village greens - breaks the village up into pockets of houses, hotels, shops and tidy terraces of mixed styles of architecture. Goathland has had so much room to grow, that the economical use of space, so frequently associated with the English village, is completely lacking. The whole area is fine walking country, and a network of footpaths fans out from the village on the the moors. There are several waterfalls, the nearest just beyond the village to the west. To the south-west is a stretch of Wade's Way, a preserved Roman Road. The television series "Heartbeat" is filmed at Goathland and the surrounding area and the village is a mecca for fans of this popular T.V. programme, and you will not be disappointed, there are a number of souvenir shops that relate to the cast members and there is lots to please the visitor. Remember to take a folding chair with you, so you can just sit and view the breathtaking Yorkshire scenery at it's very best, and just to listen to .....silence, occasionally interrupted by a birds song or a sheep's bleat. Rapers Farm Offering Bed and Breakfast, Rapers Farm, a grade II listed English Heritage building is set in idyllic surroundings with picturesque views of Newtondale, the farm is situated 10 miles north of Pickering, 4 miles from The ideal base for the Dales visitor the village of Levisham.  This is one village you just do not want to miss on your visit to Yorkshire, it's beautiful. Eden Camp, Malton, North-Yorkshire This is no ordinary museum, reconstructed from a Prisoner-of War camp that was originally built in 1942, Eden Camp re-creates history by using movement, lighting, sound and smell, even smoke from smoke machines, to transport you back in time and make you feel that you are there, taking part in history There is so much to see and do that you will need 3 to 4 hours to enjoy your visit.   Rosedale. Rosedale in the North Yorkshire Moors is typical of the scenery around this beautiful part of Yorkshire and you have the added interest of the Abbeys in Yorkshire. Bolton, Jervaulx and Rievaulx and the incomparable Fountains Abbey built by the Cistercian monks and the adjoining landscape gardens of Studley Royal.    Fountains Abbey, near Ripon, North-Yorkshire.   Fountains Abbey Cloisters Today, in their setting of an eighteenth-century landscaped park, its ruins are probably the most beautiful and certainly the most extensive, of any Cistercian foundation in Britain. Tranquil and serene it may be today, but Fountains had its share of troubles. The thirteen monks from the Benedictine abbey of St Mary's in York found their chosen site (a thorn filled barren wilderness), and at first lived under an elm tree, and amongst the surrounding rocks.   Fountains Abbey After 15 years work, in 1147 someone maliciously set fire to the abbey and with the exception of the church everything had to be rebuilt. By 1478 records show that the church was in a bad state of repair and work began on the great tower. The worst time for Fountains history was during the reign of Henry VIII. In 1536, Abbot William Thirsk was executed for taking part in the Pilgrimage of Grace and his successor, Marmaduke Bradley no doubt a king's man, meekly surrendered the abbey to its ultimate fate on 26 November 1539.   Studley Royal ornamental gardens. The riverside below Fountains Abbey opens out into ornamental gardens and ponds full of exotic geese and visiting water birds. Created in the 1720s by John Aislabie as a deer park near his house, of which only the stable block remains. The park is part of an estate sold to Sir Richard Gresham in 1540 following the dissolution of Fountains Abbey. A short stroll (one and a half hours, 2 miles) which takes in the glories of the abbey and the beauty of Studley starts at the abbey car park and follows the River Skell past Fountains Hall to the abbey.   Water Gardens, Studley Royal It continues down stream past Half Moon Pond and through the ornamental gardens of the park to follow the canal to the lake with its numerous geese and ducks both wild and tame. In the late summer and early autumn, the abbey ruins are floodlit.  St-Marys Church, Studley Royal park. Within this county are the lavish stately homes, amongst them with its Baroque splendour is Castle Howard, near Malton. Made famous by the television series "Brideshead Revisted" and Nostell Priory near Wakefield, palatial Harewood House near Leeds and the more intimate but no less beautiful are the region's many smaller historic homes. They reach back through time from Edwardian Lotherton Hall near Leeds to the Elizabethan warmth of Burton Agnes Hall on the Wolds near to the holiday resort of Bridlington. Yorkshire Traveller..continued COLOUR CUBE Select a colour background for your webpages   View My Previous Guestbook View My New Guestbook Sign My New Guestbook Malcolm mal@jupiter98.freeserve.co.uk Date Last Modified:03/02/01