A well that turns objects to stone. A film inventor who vanished without a trace. A river that kills everyone who falls into it. Yorkshire contains more genuine strangeness than most counties manage in...

From the Roman Emperor proclaimed on these streets to the city that invented Kit Kat, Aero and the Chocolate Orange, York has more history per square metre than almost anywhere in England. Most people come...

The story of Wojtek the bear, a Syrian brown bear who fought in the Second World War, carried ammunition at Monte Cassino, and spent his final years at Edinburgh Zoo, visited by the Polish...

Four acres of tunnels, grotesque statues, and deliberate confusion. The man who built it started with a windbreak. The Yorkshire Dales draws most people for its walking routes and market towns. The Forbidden Corner Yorkshire...

Druids Temple Yorkshire, is a folly built with post-war wages, home to a hermit who lived there for four years, and the site of a little-known zodiac column that almost nobody talks about. Despite...

Castle ruins in England stretch far beyond the ones on every calendar. Bodiam and Corfe are on every list. There is no argument about what they are. But the car park queue at both...

From ammonites at Saltwick Bay to Cretaceous clay at Speeton, the Yorkshire coast puts 175 million years of prehistory within reach of the tide line. Most people know Whitby for the abbey and Dracula. They...

The moor looks empty. It is not. Most people who visit Dartmoor follow the same route: Haytor, the clapper bridge at Postbridge, a look at Dartmoor Prison from the road, then back to the pub....