# The prettiest villages in Yorkshire

Coastal fishing villages, North York Moors greens and Dales stone villages.

- 98 votes · 12 items
- May 16, 2025 · tripnerd81
- https://even.best/en/l/3689/the-prettiest-villages-in-yorkshire

## Top 12

1. **Goathland** (9 · ▲11 ▼2) — Steam railway station and Heartbeat's Aidensfield.
2. **Malham** (9 · ▲9 ▼0) — Gateway to Malham Cove and Gordale Scar.
3. **Robin Hood's Bay** (8 · ▲9 ▼1) — Tumbles down the cliff to the sea, an old smugglers' haunt.
4. **Haworth** (7 · ▲7 ▼0) — The Brontë Parsonage on a steep cobbled street.
5. **Thornton-le-Dale** (6 · ▲8 ▼2) — Thatched cottage and beck-side lanes.
6. **Staithes** (6 · ▲7 ▼1) — Fishing village in a narrow inlet where young James Cook first worked.
7. **Grassington** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Cobbled square in Wharfedale.
8. **Reeth** (4 · ▲6 ▼2) — Big village green in Swaledale.
9. **Hutton-le-Hole** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Sheep on the village green beside the stream.
10. **Hawes** (3 · ▲5 ▼2) — Market town of the Wensleydale Creamery.
11. **Runswick Bay** (2 · ▲4 ▼2) — Red-roofed cottages piled above a sandy bay.
12. **Kettlewell** (1 · ▲3 ▼2) — Dales village where Calendar Girls was filmed.

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