Following the huge success of his portrait of The Yorkshire Coast Mark Denton presents a further collection of his remarkable panoramic photographs. This time he takes as his subject the Yorkshire Moors & Wolds two very different landscapes separated by the Vale of Pickering & encompassing forests remote farmlands dramatic rocky landscapes & gently rolling hills. In these images Mark Denton captures some of the most atmospheric varied enchanting & little-known areas in the whole country. ...

Yorkshire People & Coal is the third title in Peter Tuffreys Yorkshire People series featuring photographs from the Yorkshire Posts picture archives. This volume makes use of the wealth of pictures & information held in the Yorkshire Posts archives on the countys long association with coal. Peter believes there has never been a period in coal minings long history as eventful as the previous forty to fifty years & many of the pictures contained here are from that time. Images have been carefully selected to show how coal has had a wide-ranging effect on Yorkshire life. Most aspects of colliery life are depicted & not surprisingly several themes dominate throughout: disasters strikes & pit closures. It might be that coal is becoming a fading memory to those who lived through the trials & tribulations of the past fifty or more years & present generations might find it hard to imagine a time when it was relied upon to provide heating energy & a means of travel. However it cannot be denied that coal has left an indelible mark on Yorkshires long industrial history & its final glory years are aptly portrayed in Yorkshire People & Coal. ...

Three South Yorkshire friends all on the cusp of 40 fall pregnant at the same time following a visit to an ancient fertility symbol. For Helen it's a dream come true although her husband is not as thrilled about it as she had hoped. Not only wrestling with painful ghosts of the past Helen has to deal with the fact that her outwardly perfect marriage is crumbling before her eyes. For Janey it is an unmitigated disaster as she has just been offered the career break of a life-time. & she has no idea either how it could possibly have happened seeing as she & her ecstatic husband George were always so careful over contraception. For Elizabeth it is mind-numbing because she knows people like her shouldn't have children. Damaged by her dysfunctional childhood & emotionally lost she not only has to contend with carrying a child she doubts she can ever love but she also has to deal with the return to her life of a man whose love she must deny herself. Heart-warming up-lifting tear-jerking & lovely THE YORKSHIRE PUDDING CLUB is the story of how three women find themselves empowered by unexpected pregnancy. How it revitalises one woman's tired marriage strengthens another's belief in herself & brings love & warmth to a cold & empty life. ...

If you are new to walking in the Yorkshire Dales youre in for a treat as we trace our way up the Three Peaks. First though well do them one at a time giving a chance to savour the experience as well as getting to know the area. Paul Shorrock is the local expert who has brought together the whole Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge adventure. He starts by exploring each of the three peaks through six day walks before moving on to tackle the whole challenge. Everything you need to explore these glorious landscapes & prepare yourself for the 12 hour Challenge is included in The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge:-
- Fully detailed walk descriptions with frequent timings to aid navigation for the six day walks & the complete challenge.
- OS 25k large scale mapping of all the walking routes.
- Gps waypoints for the pin-point navigational accuracy that is so valuable for a successful challenge.
- Full training accommodation & local information for everything you need to know before attempting the challenge. The Three Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales provide some of the finest walking in Britain. With a combination of high peaks & stunning scenery the area is rightly popular with outdoor types from leisure walkers up to super-fit fell runners. It always seems to follow that when you have a mix of high places & human beings sooner or later someone will come up with an idea of a challenge of some kind. With the Three Peaks of Pen y Ghent Whernside & Ingleborough the solution was simple
- do them all in one walk!




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Discovery Walking Guides Celebrating 25 Years of Adventures" is slashing the price of its ' Challenge' books from GBP8.99 to GBP4.99 for books bought up to 30 September 2013. If you are new to walking in the Yorkshire Dales you're in for a treat as we trace our way up the Three Peaks. First though we'll do them one at a time giving a chance to savour the experience as well as getting to know the area. Paul Shorrock is the 'local' expert who has brought together the whole ' Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge' adventure. He starts by exploring each of the three peaks through six day walks before moving on to tackle the whole challenge. Everything you need to explore these glorious landscapes & prepare yourself for the 12 hour Challenge is included in ' The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge':-
- Fully detailed walk descriptions with frequent timings to aid navigation for the six day walks & the complete challenge.
- OS 25k large scale mapping of all the walking routes.
- gps waypoints for the pin-point navigational accuracy that is so valuable for a successful challenge.
- Full training accommodation & local information for everything you need to know before attempting the challenge. The Three Peaks of the Yorkshire Dales provide some of the finest walking in Britain. With a combination of high peaks & stunning scenery the area is rightly popular with outdoor types from leisure walkers up to super-fit fell runners. It always seems to follow that when you have a mix of high places & human beings sooner or later someone will come up with an idea of a challenge of some kind. With the Three Peaks of Pen y Ghent Whernside & Ingleborough the solution was simple
- do them all in one walk! New for the 2nd edition is the news that Paul's routes are now the 'official' Y3P routes."




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Discover the darker side of Yorkshire with this remarkable collection of true-life crimes from across the county. Featuring tales of highwaymen cut throats poachers poisoners thieves & murderers all factions of the criminal underworld are included in this macabre selection of tales. Drawing on a wide variety of historical sources & containing many cases which have never before been published Yorkshire Villains" will fascinate everyone interested in true crime & the history of Yorkshire." ...

The Yorkshire Wolds Way runs for the 79 miles (127km) over the gently rolling chalk hills between Hessle Haven & the Cliffs above Filey. Beginning by the Humber estuary you can follow the countryside agency's acorn waymarks through wooded slopes & valleys past the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy to the geological curiosity of Filey Brigg. This Official National Trail Guide published in association with Natural England the countryside agency who administer England's fifteen official long-distance footpaths is the perfect companion for the dedicated walker & the weekend stroller. ...

This is the incredible story of Yorkshires 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Athletes. If Yorkshire had entered as a country in its own right
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This is the full-colour campaigning guide to the 120 or so pubs in Yorkshire & Humberside which still have interiors or internal features of real historic significance
- some of them stretching back a century or more. It is the first ever publication of its kind to cover the entire Yorkshire region. The book is the product of many years of surveying & research by CAMRA volunteers who are dedicated to helping preserve & protect the UKs pub heritage. This guide sets out to celebrate the genuine pub heritage that survives in Yorkshire to share an understanding of its importance & to sound a call-to-arms for its better protection.
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The West Riding of Yorkshire was the largest of Englands historic counties. This volume the first of two for the area covers the northern half of the territory from the outskirts of York to the edge of the Lake District. It is full of contrasts from the urbanised landscape of the cities of Leeds with its proud civic buildings by Cuthbert Brodrick & Bradford possessor of one of the finest collections of commercial warehouses in the country to their hinterland of tightknit mill-towns & villages pushing into the Pennines. There can be found the highly distinctive houses of the seventeenth-century minor gentry & the substantial yeoman farmers & clothiers. To the north-west are the still sparsely populated Yorkshire Dales
- Ruskins truly wonderful country its beauties & curiosities admired by tourists since the eighteenth century. On the gentler eastern edge of the Pennines are the major survivals of the Cistercian Order: Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal the nearby cathedral town of Ripon & spa town of Harrogate & the opulently agricultural broad acres beyond forming part of the Vale of York counting among its monuments the magnificent designed landscape of Bramham Park.
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