English Heritage sites near Goathland Parish
WHEELDALE ROMAN ROAD
3 miles from Goathland Parish
A mile-long stretch of enigmatic ancient road - probably Roman but possibly later or earlier - amid wild and beautiful moorland, still with its hard core and drainage ditches.
WHITBY ABBEY
8 miles from Goathland Parish
The inspiration for Bram Stoker's Dracula, Whitby Abbey sits high on a cliff overlooking the picturesque Yorkshire seaside town.
PICKERING CASTLE
10 miles from Goathland Parish
This splendid 13th century castle was used as a royal hunting lodge, holiday home and stud farm by a succession of medieval kings.
SCARBOROUGH CASTLE
15 miles from Goathland Parish
With its 3,000 year history, stunning location and panoramic views over the Yorkshire coastline, Scarborough Castle is one of the finest tourist attractions in the North.
GISBOROUGH PRIORY
17 miles from Goathland Parish
The ruins of an Augustinian priory founded by the Bruce family, afterwards Kings of Scotland. They are dominated by the dramatic skeleton of the 14th-century church's east end.
HELMSLEY ARCHAEOLOGY STORE
17 miles from Goathland Parish
Helmsley Archaeology Store holds the extensive archaeological collections and paper based archives from English Heritage guardianship sites from the North of England including the counties of Northumberland, County Durham, Cumbria, Lancashire, Yorkshire, North Lincolnshire, Cheshire.
Churches in Goathland Parish
St Mary's Goathland
Goathland
Whitby
http://www.goathlandstmary.com
St. Mary's Church, Goathland is one of five churches in the United Benefice of Middle Esk Moor. The other churches in the Benefice are at Egton, Grosmont, Glaisdale and Lealholm. At this stage of the Covid pandemic and as we currently have no incumbent, our services, in general, are combined benefice services rotating around the benefice.
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Goathland is now known as a tourist centre in the North York Moors National Park. It has one of the main railway stations of the North York Moors heritage steam railway (used as a film location for Hogsmeade Station in the first Harry Potter film) and is the fictional village ‘Aidensfield' in the TV series ‘Heartbeat'. However, the spiritual origins of Goathland (or Godeland) go back much further.
Towards the end of the eleventh century, a small group of Christian brothers settled by the Eller Beck to the South of modern-day Goathland. They built a chapel called ‘St Mary at Godeland', probably close to their hermitage buildings.
Records from 1568, during the reign of Elizabeth I, tell of St. Mary's Chapel which was by then probably near to the site of the present church. By 1821 a new church building had been completed, standing on a site next to the present church in what is now the old churchyard.
The present church was designed by William Brierley of York and completed in 1896. The style is perpendicular, with some Arts and Crafts overtones. Much of the woodwork was made by Robert ‘Mouseman' Thompson of Kilburn.
The church has some good pictorial stained glass, the east window (designed by A.L. Moore) and the south wall windows (by J.C.N. Bewsey) being from the early twentieth century. The two west end windows are modern, commissioned for the Millennium, by Ann Sotheran.
Although the church is late Victorian, it contains several artefacts from the earlier churches and chapels, dating back to the Norman or even Saxon periods.
A leaflet with more information is available in St. Mary's church.
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Pubs in Goathland Parish
Birch Hall Inn
Charming historic Grade II listed olde world pub which maintains an excellent choice of beers. A limited range of quality cold meals are available - sandwiches, pork pies, plus beer cake, etc. Some outside seating. Extensive garden to the r...
Goathland Hotel
Famous as the Aidensfield Arms in TVs Heartbeat, this traditional and unspoilt pub in Goathland offers up to three cask beers including Camerons Strongarm. Regular Coastliner buses go to Whitby York & Leeds, while the NYMoors Railway travel...
Inn On The Moor
The Mill Green Way, Goathland, YO22 5LZ
(01947) 896296
innonthemoor.com
Mallyan Spout Hotel
Comfy pub at the back of the Grade II listed hotel offering two cask beers including Black Sheep Bitter. Bar food as above the restaurant is also open from 6.30pm - 8:30pm Famous for the waterspout inherent in its title, the Mallyan Spout i...