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Introducing North Yorkshire
The largest of Yorkshire’s four counties is also the most beautiful, if only because unlike the rest of northern England, mills and mines are nowhere to be found. Blissfully free of the landmarks of the Industrial Revolution, North Yorkshire has, since the Middle Ages, always been about sheep and the woolly wealth that they produced.
Instead of smoke-bellowing factories and labour-abusing mills and mines, the man-made monuments that dot the landscape round these parts are of the magnificent variety: the great houses and rich abbeys that sit ruined or otherwise in glorious isolation from the rest of the world are a reminder that there was lots of money to be made off the sheep’s back. Indeed, much of North Yorkshire’s untamed, untouched quality is preserved within the confines of the county’s two superb national parks – the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors.
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