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North Yorkshires Coastal Moors

The North York Moors are a compact Sheep farming area which can't fail to impress the visitor with its rural tranquility.

Bordered to the East by the rugged coastline from the recreational holiday resort of Scarborough to  to the smuggling cove of Robin Hood's Bay and the fishing port and Abbey at Whitby. 

The moors as with the North Yorkshire Dales can be accessed by air through the Teesside and Leeds/Bradford airports, by road the Moors are flanked by the A1 and A19 Highways which divide the Moors to the East and the Yorkshire Dales to the West.

The main Highways from the South are the A1 which runs directly North from London To Edinburgh and the M1 the Motorway Route which also runs North from London to the West up the centre of the country to the Leeds / Bradford region where one can traverse East on the M18 or M62 to the A1 to continue through the Eastern region of the North Country past York, Durham, Newcastle and over the Border to Scotland and Edinburgh.

There are no main Highways which pass through the North York Moors, but its perimeter is services by the the A171 from the A19 at Middlesbrough /Teesside to the North which follows the coast South to Scarborough.

The southern Moors are accessed by the A170 From Thirsk also on the A19, this route passes through Pickering on its way East to Scarborough on the coast.

The route from Thirsk is interesting with Castles and Abbeys at Rievaulx, Helmsley and Pickering.

A major attraction for Steam Rail Enthusiasts is the North York Moors Railway which runs a daily service with restored steam locomotives and rolling stock.  The route winds through the moors from Gromont at the North end through the scenic village of Goathland to Pickering to the South. 

Goathland is a very attractive village to visit and a splendid central location to stay at while absorbing the North York Moors, the village is better known as Aidensfield in the 1960's period TV series Heartbeat giving the area the name of Heartbeat Country.

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Roman Britain and After

The Romans invaded Britain in 43 AD on the Kent Coast at Richbrough bringing with them the first keystones of civilisation, by turning villages into town which acted as rural and industrial centres and a road network stretching across Britain up to the Roman Wall built by Emperor Hadrian from Wallsend upon Tyne on the East coast to Carlisle on the Solway firth.

They came in search of minerals for the home land and left nearly four hundred years later largely disappointed except for large quantities of lead sent back to Rome and other centres of their Empire, leaving behind them an organized prosperous country with law and order established.

After over 300 years of peace in the early fifth century they had withdrawn back to Rome the Empires Capital which was under threat from other foes intent on building their own Empire. This left Britain unprotected from the Scots to the North beyond the Wall and the Angles and Saxons across the channel to the South.

The Anglo Saxons  came as the Romans were leaving followed by many migrant farming settlers during the following two centuries, while the Scot’s to the North plundered Northern England across the then border. As the farming communities slowly demolished the old boundary line, Hadrian’s Wall for the pre cut stone to build homes and mark off territorial boundaries with dry stone walls.

Then the Danes plundered the East Coast for a while in the Ninth Century eventually settling in the coastal regions around York and the southern dales. While the Vikings after years of raiding the Northumbrian Coast eventually stayed and settled in the Northern Dales and the Cumbrian Lake District.

Then last but not least the Normans invaded in 1066 and stayed after William the Conquer won the Battle of Hastings. William was the first to bring organized Taxation to Britain by ordering the compilation of the Doomsday Book in 1086.

The Doomsday Book formed the first census of the counties, shires, towns and family names throughout southern England. The Counties north of York and over the border were not part of his Empire  and remained uncounted until the first official census at the start of the nineteenth century some seven hundred years later.

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