Best weekend breaks from Leeds and Sheffield

A Pennine valley town of canals, woods and independent shops

A Victorian seaside town with a pier and a water-powered cliff tramway

Britain's oldest seaside resort, with two bays and a castle

A cathedral and castle on a wooded river bend

A pretty market town and the gateway to the North York Moors

A hilltop cathedral city with a medieval castle

Yorkshire's food town, beside Castle Howard

Heather moorland, steam trains and a dramatic coast

A Georgian market town beneath a Norman castle, at the door of Swaledale

A tiny cathedral city next door to Fountains Abbey

A smugglers' village tumbling down a steep cliff

A cliff-hugging fishing village with a tiny harbour

A dramatic harbour town with a clifftop abbey

Green valleys, limestone scars and drystone walls

A genteel spa town of gardens, tea rooms and Turkish baths

England's first national park, with moors, dales and stately homes

Medieval walls, a magnificent minster and cobbled streets