White Horse at Kilburn

Thursday 24^th May 2012

Another glorious day- blue sky (some haze), no wind and temperature reached 26°. Almost a heat wave with lots of locals out sitting in parks soaking up the sunshine.

We set off this morning to see some of the Yorkshire countryside.

First stop was Kilburn to see the large white chalk horse carved into the hillside, and to visit  the Mouseman Visitor Centre. The Mouseman produces individually hand made furniture (really very expensive, a serviette ring costs £32.00 each). On each piece is carved a small mouse, hence the name Mouseman.

Scripps Funeral Services

Next on the list today was Goathland on the Yorkshire Moor. Goathland has been made famous as Aidensfield in the TV series “Heartbeat”. For all you ‘Heartbeat’ fans we saw Scripps Funeral Service, Aidensfield Garage and the Aidensfield Pub where we had lunch.  Walked to the station in time to see a steam train pulling into the station. Goathland is a very lovely little Yorkshire village.

Whitby Harbour

Back in the car and onto Whitby where the HMS Endeavour was built and Captain Cook served his apprenticeship. There is also a monument to Captain Cook on the headland.

Great Hall in Castle Howard

To finish the day we decided to look at one more castle, Castle Howard. The castle was built over 300 years ago by the Howard family, who still live there. The castle was used as the setting for the TV series “Brideshead Revisited”. A very beautiful castle with lovely gardens - we would have loved more time there.

Drove back to York and had dinner in the Hole in the Wall pub.