Shepherds Rest Activities
Shepherds Rest is the perfect base for outdoors enthusiasts with easy access to both the North York Moors National Park and the East Yorkshire coastal resorts of Runswick Bay, Whitby and Robin Hood’s Bay. You will find a number of excellent restaurants and pubs in the area enabling you to sample some of the finest food around. Shepherds Rest is also ideally located for many of the attractions worth paying a visit to in the region. The numerous possibilities for a day out include:
| Walking & Cycling: |
The Cleveland Way Roseberry Topping Captain Cook’s Monument Danby Moors Centre |
| Houses & Gardens: |
Newby Hall Helmsley Walled Garden Harewood House Duncombe Park, York Castle Howard |
| Historic Cities/Towns & Coastal Villages: |
York Durham Harrogate Darlington Newcastle Whitby Staithes Runswick Bay Robin Hood’s Bay |
| Market Towns: |
Stokesley Yarm Thirsk Helmsley |
| History & Heritage: |
The World of James Herriott Eden Camp National Trust Fountains Abbey & Studley Royal Helmsley Castle Rievaulx Abbey Mount Grace Priory Gisborough Priory Whitby Abbey Beamish Open Air Museum National Railway Museum, York Royal Armouries, Leeds |
| Retail Therapy: |
York Leeds Newcastle City Centre Gateshead Metro Centre Dalton Park Teesside Retail Park Darlington |
| General Activities: |
North Yorks Moor Steam Railway Hartlepool Marina Yorvik Viking Museum Flamingo Land |
| Restaurants & Pubs: |
Chapters Restaurant & Deli Howards Eatery The Tontine The Crab & Lobster Bettys Joe Rigatonis Chadwicks |
