| Page Views: 1,515 Last Visit to Grassington: December, 2002 | Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales by bugalugs - last update: Jan 5, 2003 |
|  | Christmas Time Grassington is situated in the Yorkshire Dales, in an area known as Upper Wharfedale. I had always thought Grassington to be a village but apparently as it name depicts Grassing 'ton', meaning a town. Even if it is a town it is quite a small but really lovely place.
Beautiful stone cottages and cobbled squares that seem to be vanishing from our larger towns.
Grassington is about 9 miles north of Skipton on the B6265, and 55 miles north of Manchester.
An interesting fact I did find out about Grassington is that it is twinned with Dodge City, Kansas, U.S.A. I thought this was such a coincidence as the Dodge family (or some of it) actually came from the town I live in in the North West of England. There is a house here that belonged to them and a road (which is very steep) called Dodge Hill!!!
There are also lots of other beautiful places to see around this area, namely Bolton Abbey, which is a popular tourist attraction lies about 10 miles south east of Grassington on the B6160. It is a ruined abbey since the time of Henry VIII and the dissolution of the monasteries. |
| | Haworth A lovely place to visit whilst in this area is Haworth, home to the Brontes, famous for their writings.(Please see my Haworth page)
On leaving Grassington we stopped at Haworth which earlier on had apparently been as busy as Grassington. |
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| Pros: | "A nice place to visit" | | Cons: | "Too many people" | | In A Nutshell: | "Must try and visit in the summer!" |
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nickandchris Wed Mar 29, 2006 08:23 UTC
An interesting angle of Grassington. It's a shame how these festivals get too large. It would annoy me, being so crowded!!!! (but then I'm easily annoyed!) | evaanna Sat Jul 16, 2005 17:15 UTC
Thanks for letting me see Christmas in such a charming little English town. The only time I would have had a chance to see Christmas in England martial law was declared in Poland (in 1981) and no one could leave the country. | birchy99 Sat Feb 5, 2005 00:43 UTC
My, such a difference. In March the town was very, very quiet, but still as charming I'm sure. | steventilly Fri Dec 12, 2003 17:04 UTC
Thinking of going this weekend! I'll let you know. |
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