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Perhaps this is a region whose magic speaks best for itself. Come soon and see if you agree.

Watch as the sun guilds the green Yorkshire Dales, a patchwork of high fell and pasture, criss-crossed by dry stone walls and dotted with ancient villages. Breaking out here and there in a silver drama of crags and cascading waterfalls, this is limestone country at its best.

A sense of space and solitude marks the North York Moors where ridge upon ridge of heather moorland roll into the purple distance. The deep secret valleys which cut the plateau come almost as a surprise and the warmth of their dreaming red-roofed villages gives pleasing contrast to the upland solitude.

Different yet again are the vistas of the wild Pennine hill country where moorland and mill towns weave a special harmony. Here are the landscapes which inspired the Brontes and their home, Haworth, remains little changed. "Last of the Summer Wine" viewers will recognise Holmfirth whose moors climb on up into the Peak District National Park.

Not all our treasured landscapes are "high and wild". Remote Holderness and the gentle vales of Pickering and York beckon to be explored and the flowering lanes and unspoilt villages of the Yorkshire Wolds and Howardian Hills are quiet corners of deepest rural England.

Man and the land is a centuries-old story unfolded in our local life museums. They include the Yorkshire Museum of Farming near York, the Dales Countryside Museum in Hawes, Normanby Park Farming Museum, Scunthorpe and the outdoor Ryedale Folk Museum.

In a region where the "great outdoors" really is great, it's no surprise that so many of our visitors come here for outdoor action. Climbing, caving, canoeing, angling, sailing - in fact - you name it! Cycle on country routes or off the road on mountain bikes. Try a "learn to ride" holiday or go trekking.

Above all this is matchless walking country. Its many footpaths include the rough, tough Pennine Way, the coastal Cleveland Way, the Wolds Way, the Dales Way, the Bronte Way and dozens of waymarked local routes, available at Tourist Information Centres. So get those boots on!

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