A Yorkshire national park is drawing up plans to stop new agricultural buildings having a negative impact on the landscape. The North York Moors National Park Authority has drawn up a draft design ...

You are in: North Yorkshire > Nature > Nature features > Moors at a crossroads Sheep are a familiar sight on the North York Moors, but do you realise how they help shape the landscape? Sheep ...

BOSSES at a national park in North Yorkshire have warned protecting its landscape will be the priority despite an increase in renewable energy… ...

Residents living in a picturesque North Yorkshire market town fear the rise in tourism will stop locals trying to get on the property ladder. Pickering, hailed the 'gateway to the moors' , is ...

North York Moors and the surrounding area Ruminate on romantic ruins. It may not be as isolated as when it was founded by ...

The North York Moors National Park covers an area of more than 500 sq miles (1,300 sq km) and attracts an estimated 8.4 million visitors a year.

As Frank Elgee, geologist, naturalist and the North York Moors’s great advocate, put it in The Moorlands of North-Eastern Yorkshire (1912): ‘If, unacquainted with moors, we were told by travellers of ...

Since it was positioned in the Yorkshire countryside last June, '˜the seated man' has been the focus of many a photograph. The first public sculpture to be placed in the North York Moors National ...

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway is a full day out, and an excellent centrepiece ... give you the opportunity to hop off at the smaller stops on the moors for a wander around this unique landscape.

A NEWLY launched pilgrims’ trail in the North York Moors National Park commemorates St Aelred, Abbot of Rievaulx Abbey from 1147 to 1167. The abbey is one of the 12 churches on the 41-mile trail, ...

Sheep are a familiar sight on the North York Moors, but do you realise how they help shape the landscape? Sheep numbers are falling, but if they disappear completely the look of the moors will ...