Seeing Yorkshire in Style

Getting There

Manchester is the nearest major airport to Yorkshire; change planes in London for the hop north. The area is also easily reached by taking a train to Halifax, Leeds, or York.

Stay

I adored Grantley Hall

(doubles from `35,900; grantleyhall. co.uk), a converted 17th-century mansion with 47 rooms and suites and a restaurant helmed by chef Shaun Rankin.

Holdsworth House

(doubles from `10,520; holdsworth house.co.uk) lies on the edge of busy Halifax, but sitting in the hotel’s Jacobean garden, you’d never know it. Just outside York, I stayed at the

Feversham Arms Hotel (doubles from `11,625; feversham armshotel.com), a stylishly restored former coaching inn in the village of Helmsley.

Eat

At the Shibden Mill Inn (entrées `1,400– `2,870; shibden millinn.com), you can feast on dishes like duck-fat brioche prepared with hen of the woods mushrooms, slowcooked duck egg, and scallions. The

Stubbing Wharf

(entrées `735–`1,470; stubbing.co.uk) is a quaint little pub on the Rochdale Canal that cooks up a dynamite fish and chips. Black Swan at Oldstead (tasting menu `11,770; black swanoldstead.co.uk) has a clutch of awards for chef Tommy Banks’s way with local produce. Don’t miss the Yorkshire pudding at Andrew Pern’s Michelin-starred

Star Inn at Harome

(entrées `1,400– `3,240; thestarat harome.co.uk).

See

The 15th-century estate at Shibden Hall (museums. calderdale.org.uk)

is a must-visit for fans of the TV series Gentleman Jack.

The Hepworth Wakefield (hepworth

wakefield.org) and Yorkshire Sculpture Park (ysp.org) showcase works by local sculpture stars Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth. You’ll find haunting ruins at Whitby Abbey (english-heritage.org.

uk) and Fountains Abbey (nationaltrust.

org.uk), while the North Yorkshire Moors Railway (nymr.co.uk) covers one of the most scenic routes in the UK.