Tours normally run from Monday to Sunday.
Your luxury tour begins as soon as you are greeted at Manchester airport. From here you will be chauffeur driven to your chosen accommodation, in our classic Bentley Mulsanne.
If your flight arrives in the morning, you will have a couple of hours to rest and freshen up before going on a small tour in the afternoon.
After your evening meal, discuss with your personal chauffeur/guide about details and arrangements for the week ahead.
We will provide a suggested itinerary for you to choose from, taking into account your personal interests and also bearing in mind the weather forecast for the week.
Visit the fascinating Herriot Museum, set in the original Kirkgate vetinary practice and home of Alf Wight for many years. The house and surgery have been recreated as they would have been in the 1940’s.
We will take you over the high fells in our luxurious 4x4 vehicle. See for yourself the beautiful scenery as described so vividly in Herriots books.
View the Whitestone cliffs, where Alf Wight enjoyed walking his dogs. From here he described having the finest views across the vale of York to the Pennines.
Explore the historic market town of Thirsk, known as Darrowby in James Herriot’s books.
Visit the many unspoilt villages of the Dales which are still much the same as when Alf Wight would have known them.
The beauty of the Dales is due to the way it is still farmed as it has been for hundreds of years with sheep on the high fells and cattle in the lower Dales. In many cases the farms have been in the same family for generations. These are the same families that Alf Wight dealt with in his everyday working life.
Here are just a few examples of other places of interest you may visit on a Herriot-Country Tour;
Near the village of Aysgarth the river Ure tumbles over a series of broad limestone steps which are known as Aysgarth Falls. In spring time the woodside banks are covered in bluebells and primroses.
Fountains Abbey is Britain’s largest monastic ruin, founded in 1132 by 13 Benedictine Monks. The Abbey became derelict following the Dissolution of the Monasteries by Henry VIII in 1539.
Spend a day in the Lake District. A special part of England with its rugged
mountains and peaceful lakes, the inspiration for William Wordsworth's poems,
visit his former home Dove Cottage.
Also visit Hill Top Farm where Beatrix Potter wrote her novels.
Tour Castle Howard, a magnificent 18 th Century house with extensive collections, sweeping parklands and famous gardens.
Explore Bolton Castle, a massive fortress dominating Wensleydale since 1399. It has connections with Richard II. Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned here for six months.
Spend an afternoon in the ancient Roman City of York.
Take a tour of the magnificent York Minster, one of the largest cathedrals of its time.
It is described to be an architectural masterpiece dating back to the 13th Century.
Explore the network of small streets known as the Shambles, with its timber-framed
overhanging buildings from the 14th century.
Tour the dramatic and extensive remains of Rievaulx Abbey, once one of the most powerful medieval monasteries in Britain. Set in the beautiful Rye valley.
These are just a few examples of the many attractions the Yorkshire Dales have to offer.
You have the choice of staying in the following accommodation (Prices include accommodation, personal chauffeur guide and chauffeur-driven vehicle for the entire tour);
- Six nights in the lower Dales at Crakehall Watermill for £1,500 per person. You will enjoy your stay in this peaceful 17th Century mill house, with its restored watermill in a quiet riverside setting.
- Six nights in a hotel in Wensleydale for £1,700 per person.
This is highly recommended as the hotel is in the centre of the Dales and so provides an ideal base for touring Herriot Country. It is also the hotel where James Herriot spent his honeymoon. If you book well in advance it would be possible to book the actual room that he stayed in.
- Three nights in a hotel and three nights in farmhouse accommodation for £1,900 per person.
This is the same hotel as featured above. Also stay on the types of farms that James Herriot visited or stay on a farm used in the filming of All Creatures Great And Small.
- Three nights in a luxury country house hotel and three nights in farmhouse accommodation for £2,000 per person.
A mixture of traditional Dales farmhouses along with the grand country houses.
Six nights in a luxury country house or castle hotel for £2,500 per person.
Experience some of very best accommodation Yorkshire has to offer. One of these estates is still owned and managed by the same family with links going back over 500 years.
Prices include :
6 nights accommodation with full English breakfast.
Personal guide/chauffeur and vehicle for entire tour.
All land travel expenses.
All entry fees to stately homes, castles and museums etc.
Great Britain provides a great wealth of history together with beautiful countryside. You will see parts of England that most tourists never see or experience. Spend as much time as you need to take in the views or stroll leisurely around the ruined abbeys, stately homes and beautiful gardens. Enjoy the beauty of the hills and Dales of Herriot Country.
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