hidden Yorkshire

Two schoolgirls, a borrowed camera and a beck at the bottom of a Bradford garden produced five photographs that convinced Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fairies were real. The Cottingley Fairies hoax ran for six...

A six-metre waterfall drops over a curtain of limestone tufa into a pool the colour of pale jade, twenty minutes' walk from Malham village. Local tradition has held for generations that a fairy queen...

Half a mile of weathered millstone grit along a ridge above the Calder Valley, and a story that has run since at least 1491: a wedding party, caught in fog on the way home,...

A well beside the River Nidd has been turning ordinary objects to stone since long before photography existed to prove it. Mother Shipton's Cave and its Petrifying Well have been charging visitors an entry...

A market town 850 feet above sea level has just been named one of the country's most overlooked places, and the reasons go well beyond the cheese. Country Living has just put Hawes, Yorkshire Dales,...

In 1907, a newspaper poll declared this the prettiest village in Yorkshire. Nobody has seriously challenged the title since. Thornton-le-Dale Yorkshire is built around a working stream. Thornton Beck runs straight through the middle of...

Five Yorkshire family days out the standard guidebooks miss: underground caves, a lost woodland gorge, and one of the strangest four-acre gardens in England. Yorkshire has a reliable visitor circuit. Flamingo Land, the National Railway...