Secret Yorkshire

York is officially the most haunted city in Europe, but that is barely the start.

Emperor Constantine was proclaimed Roman Emperor here in 306 AD. Kit Kat, Aero, Smarties, and the Chocolate Orange were all invented here. The city walls are the longest surviving medieval walls in England. And somewhere beneath York Minster, a Roman fortress still sits underground.

We have pulled together 12 fun facts about York that most visitors never hear, from the Viking street names hiding in plain sight to the pub that has been open since 1503.

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There is a four-acre garden in the Yorkshire Dales where nothing behaves the way it should. Doors open onto brick walls. Tunnels loop back on themselves. Statues move.
The Forbidden Corner in Coverdale has operated since 1994 and takes pre-booked visitors only. Most Yorkshire families have never heard of it.
And six miles from Ripon, Hackfall Woods is a free 18th-century pleasure ground in a gorge that almost nobody visits. The Woodland Trust manages it. Entry is free. The woodland is ancient.
Five hidden family days out in Yorkshire that the standard guidebooks miss. Link in the comments.
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Yorkshire has beaches, dark skies, and flower meadows that most visitors never find because they stay in York and Whitby.

In 1682, a landslide during a funeral at Runswick Bay brought almost every house in the village down into the sea. One house survived. The village was rebuilt above the bay. The Times named it one of Britain's best beaches in 2020.

Meanwhile, Muker in upper Swaledale holds flower hay meadows that Britain has lost 97 per cent of since the Second World War. They still bloom here from late May.
Five lesser-known places to stay, all worth the drive. Link in the comments.

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