This tour covers a splendid variety of magnificent scenery and contrasting countryside, with quaint Yorkshire towns and villages. We also feature a ride on the Wensleydale Railway, reopened after 50 years and also a boat trip on the Tees to Yarm.
View Dates & BookThis tour covers magificant scenery and contrasting countryside, with quaint Yorkshire villages. We also feature a ride on wensleydale Railway, reopened after 50 years re-living rural railway travel as it used to be all those years ago. Alongside a refreshment stop at the hostoric public house the Bilsdale Sun Inn that has had the same lanlords for 200 years.
Holiday Highlights
Historic Maritime Whitby
5 days, 4 nights with dinner, bed & breakfast
Free Pick-Up Home
Gold Coach Travel with hostess service
North Yorkshire Moors Railway to Whitby
Wensleydale Railway
Swaledale Historic Richmond
Bilsdale Sun Inn
Monday
We depart and make our way north, arriving at the Blackwell Grange Hotel for the next 4 nights with dinner, bed and breakfast.
During your stay
• We join the North Yorkshire Moors Railway for a steam train journey through rugged moorland to Whitby.
• Historic Richmond for free time and to explore.
• A Nostalgic ride on the ‘Wensleydale Railway’.
• Bilsdale - Little Switzerland to the Sun Inn, which has had the same landlord for 200 years!
• Visit to Yam for free time and enjoy some retail therapy or take a stroll along the banks of the River Tees
• Visit to Helmsley with its 12th century castle
• Kilburn, home of Mousey Thompson a famous wood worker renowned for his little mouse carvings and hand carved oak furniture.
Friday
After breakfast we depart for home.
Your Hotel
The Blackwell Grange Hotel is a stunning 17th Century mansion which enjoys an enviable setting in the beautiful County of Durham countryside.
The hotel is nestled in wooded parkland in Darlington, located between the North Yorkshire Moors and the Pennines. Hotel facilities include leisure club with heated indoor swimming pool, spa and sauna and all bedrooms are en suite with TV, radio, telephone, hairdryer and tea/coffee.
The hotel has a lift
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Below is a list of pick-up points available on this tour.
Below is a list of pick-up points available on this tour.
Name | Address |
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Bath | Bath Odd Down Park and Ride Coach Park |
Bridgwater | Bridgwater Mount Street Bus Stop Rear of Angel Place Shopping centre |
Chippenham | Chippenham The Bridge Outside Rivo Lounge or Megabet. |
Cirencester | Cirencester Little Chef/Burger King Hare Bushes Services, A429 Burford Road, GL7 5DS |
Clevedon | Clevedon Miles Morgan Travel Agency, Triangle Bus Stop |
Exeter Services | Exeter Services - M5 - Pickups from here may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach |
Frome | Frome Market Place |
Gloucester | Gloucester outside the British Heart Foundation Shop, Northgate Street, Gloucester, GL1 1SL |
Gloucester Sainsburys | Gloucester Sainsburys Layby, Barnett Way, Barnwood GL4 3RT South East bound Bus Stop |
Gordano | Gordano M5 Services CAR PARK |
Highbridge | Highbridge, Church Street Bus Stop Near to Church |
Ivybridge | Ivybridge Leisure Centre Car Park - Pickups may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach |
Junction 27 M5 | J27 M5 - Burger King/ Travelodge Pick ups maybe fed to Gordano Services |
Liskeard | Liskeard Lloyds Bank The Parade, Liskeard, PL14 6AW |
M5 Junction 13 | M5 Junction 13, Starbucks Formerly Little Chef |
Melksham | Melksham Town Hall. |
Michael Wood Services | Michael Wood Services - Outward - Northbound side Return - Southbound side |
Midsomer Norton | Midsomer Norton Town Hall |
Minehead | Minehead Railway Station |
Newton Abbot | Newton Abbot Railway Station Lay By Pickups may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 |
Plymouth | Plymouth Railway Station SE Bound Bus Stop Pennycomequick Hill/ Saltash Road |
Shepton Mallet | Shepton Mallet Station Road Car Park Bus Stop near Monument |
Somerton | Somerton The Cross - Pickups from here may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach |
St Austell | St Austell-Railway Station PL25 4LA |
Street | Street Bayliss Centre |
Taunton Herons | Taunton - Hankeridge Farm Bus Stop, Herons Gate by Halfords Superstore. |
Thornbury | Thornbury Aldi Lay-by |
Torquay | Torquay Coach Station |
Trowbridge | Trowbridge Town Hall |
Truro | Truro Fairmantle Street Coach Park TR1 2EE |
Wells | Wells Princes Road Car Park |
Westbury | Westbury Haynes Road bus stop |
Weston-super-Mare | Weston-super-Mare Locking Road Car Park |
Yeovil | Yeovil Bus Station - Pickups may be fed to Gordano Services M5-J19 to meet coach |
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03 Jun 2024 | £759.00 | | | | |
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26 Aug 2024 | £759.00 | | | | |
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16 Sep 2024 | £759.00 | | | | |
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14 Oct 2024 | £749.00 | | | | |
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