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 The Black Horse Hotel is situated at the top of the cobbled
village square of Grassington, in the heart of the Yorkshire
Dales in Wharfedale in North Yorkshire.
Grassington is a beautiful and very popular dales village,
with a good range of amenities, shops, pubs and cafes.
The Hotel is ideally located for exploring the picturesque
countryside of this beautiful part of the country, including
the historic market town of Skipton & Skipton Castle,
a complete medieval fortress standing at the top of Skipton's
main street. For those who prefer other pursuits, walking
in the dales, pony trekking at Kilnsey Centre, or exploring "underground" at
Stump Cross Caverns, are all within easy reach of Grassington.
Yorkshire has been chosen as the setting for many TV dramas
and films as well as being the setting for some of the
classics of English literature.
Some of the most notable which are well within reach of
Grassington are, south of Skipton, the Bronte country,
home to Charlotte and Emily Bronte, famous for "Jane
Eyre" and "Wuthering Heights" respectively,
as well as other novels and poems, and the rest of their
talented family, sister Anne, who wrote "The Tenant
of Wildfell Hall", and brother Bramwell who wrote
and painted.
Closer to the present day Yorkshire has been the location
of the James Herriot books and TV series. The actual 'Skeldale
House' may be seen in Thirsk in North Yorkshire, with exhibits
of veterinary science and farming from the forties and
fifties.
The soap "Emmerdale", originally "Emmerdale
Farm" is also filmed in North Yorkshire in the Harewood
Estate, having been originally in Arncliffe, in Littondale,
and then in the village of Esholt,West Yorkshire. So there
is plenty of Emmerdale scenery to visit from Grassington.
The current TV series "The Real Emmerdale" features
Grassington and the local community.
Heartbeat's village of Aidensfield may be seen at Goathland,
a stop on the North York Moors Railway, in the North York
Moors National Park, where The Aidensfield Arms is the
Goathland Hotel.
The very popular film "Calendar Girls" was filmed
locally in Kettlewell, and was based on the calendar produced
by the "naked" ladies of the Rylstone Women's
Institute in aid of Leukaemia Research. Kettlewell is short
trip to the north of Grassington, while Rylstone lies between
Grassington and Skipton.
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