Explore Yorkshire

Your Yorkshire adventure begins at the edge of the Yorkshire Dales in Harrogate, an attractive Georgian spa town with a 200-year tradition of providing restorative treatments. Popular among fashionable Victorians, Harrogate still offers spa treatments today at its beautiful Turkish bath house. Meet your Tour Manager at your hotel in time for dinner. With some free time, maybe head out and start exploring the elegant town.

• Dinner

Take the train to York for a guided tour of the main sights, including the magnificent 12th-century Minster, one of the largest Gothic cathedrals in Northern Europe. With its wide nave and Chapter House, the Minster's handcrafted stone facade turns gold at sunset and exquisite medieval stained-glass windows scatter the light inside. This awe-inspiring cathedral can be seen from almost everywhere in the city. Your tour ends at the quaint Shambles, one of the world's best-preserved medieval streets where you can still see original features on each shop front.

With free time to explore this afternoon, you could visit the National Railway Museum. Here you can see and explore over 100 different locomotives, including a 1960s Japanese Shinkansen Bullet Train, and Queen Victoria's own saloon railway carriage. Alternatively, take a stroll around the city walls and enjoy the stunning city views, or relax with a drink in one of the 365 pubs York is famous for - some of which have been serving ale since the 16th century. Back in Harrogate, sit down to a three-course, Yorkshire-themed dinner.

• Breakfast, Dinner

Board a coach to Whitby, one of the county's most popular seaside resorts. Crowned by its brooding Abbey, Whitby is famous as the inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula, and for its unique jet jewellery. Enjoy free time here, perhaps to visit the historic Benedictine Abbey, found at the top of 199 steps on the east cliff. While here, you could visit quaint St Mary's Church where you're greeted with panoramic views across the town, harbour and ocean. You could also take a walk along the wide sandy beach or along the wooden pier. Many people visit Whitby to see the whalebone arch, a reminder of the town's history as a whaling industry. You will find these weathered arches on the West Cliff near the Captain Cook monument. Whitby is known for some of the UK's finest fish and chip restaurants, which you could sample before joining the nostalgic North Yorkshire Moors Railway for the return journey. Travel in style on the restored heritage train and relax as views of heather-strewn moorland pass by. After your rail journey, continue back to Harrogate by coach.

• Breakfast

Travel by coach to Ingrow today for a journey on the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway*. This trip takes you up the Worth Valley to Oxenhope, passing the beautiful scenery from the much-loved classic 1970 film 'The Railway Children'. On-train commentary reveals more about the history of the railway and on arrival, there's a chance to visit the Vintage Carriage Museum and goods shed. Continue to the picturesque village of Haworth, surrounded by the remote Pennine Hills and site of the Brontë Parsonage, once home to the famous literary sisters. It was here, amid the wonderfully dramatic landscape, that the Brontës were inspired to write novels such as Wuthering Heights and Jane Eyre.

*Some departures this journey will be operated by diesel

• Breakfast, Dinner

After breakfast, you're free to leave Harrogate. Before you do, you might like to visit one of the town's beautiful parks, such as the Valley Gardens, or step into Betty's Tea Room for some tea and a Fat Rascal before you leave.

• Breakfast