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Linne's notes and tips on visiting Yorkshire



First of all, for those coming from the USA, I'd recommend you look 
into rail passes which can only be purchased while you're still in the 
USA.  For a flat fee you can travel on trains in the UK, e.g. there's 
one for travelling anywhere within the UK on four separate days within 
a month.  These may cost you less than British Rail tickets,  especially 
if you're walking into a station and buying to travel that  day since 
those are the most expensive of all.



Secondly, there are LOTS of things to do nearby: in York (walk the 
medieval walls, visit medieval buildings within the city, the shambles 
(best preserved medieval street in the country), the Jorvik Viking 
Centre, the Fairfax House (Geogrian townhouse museum), the National 
Railway Museum, the Castle Museum (wonderful museum of Victorian life 
in Britain including a whole recreated street of shops indoors), and 
lovely walks along the river, many parks, etc., besides the Minster, 
largest gothic cathedral north of the Alps.  A bit further afield but 
all accessible by public transport are the great medieval abbeys of 
Yorkshire: Fountains Abbey, Bylands Abbey, Riveaux Abbey, Jervaulx 
Abbey, and Whitby Abbey on the coast north of Scarborough.  For 
walkers, the Yorkshire Dales are only half an hour north of here, the 
North Yorkshire Moors even closer.  So think about extending your 
holiday to enjoy the area; these websites will tell you more about it:



http://www.visityork.org



http://www.visityorkshire.co.uk



http://www.yorkshire.com/do



http://www.yorkshire-guide.co.uk

Linne R. Mooney
Professor in Medieval English Palaeography
University of York
King's Manor
York  YO1 7EP
U.K.

telephone (UK)  01904 323909
telephone (from USA)  011 44 1904 323909
Linne.Mooney at york.ac.uk