7-Day Lake District & Yorkshire Dales & North-East Tour
The Northern Crown: Lakes, Dales & North East road trip
No tour covers more landscape variety per mile
The Northern Crown takes you through England's most dramatic and romantic landscapes — the Lake District of Wordsworth and Beatrix Potter, the Yorkshire Dales of the Brontës, and the wild North-East where Vikings settled and Christianity came to England. The variety per mile is unmatched anywhere in Britain.
Highlights
- Wordsworth's Grasmere
- Hadrian's Wall
- The Yorkshire Dales
- Whitby and its Dracula connection
- Durham Cathedral
What You'll Discover
- •Why the Romantics fell in love with the Lakes
- •The Viking legacy in Yorkshire place names
- •How Lindisfarne became one of Christianity's most important sites
- •What Dracula has to do with Whitby
- •The Brontës' wild moors and wilder lives
Day-by-Day Itinerary
Into the Lakes
70 milesEnter the Lake District from the south. Windermere opens before you — England's largest lake and gateway to the Romantic poets.
Heart of the Lakes
50 milesGrasmere, Wordsworth's home for most of his life. The landscape that inspired the Romantic movement.
Over the Pennines
80 milesCross England's backbone via the dramatic passes. The Yorkshire Dales open on the eastern side — limestone instead of volcanic.
Brontë Country
70 milesHaworth and the wild moors that shaped the Brontës' imaginations. Wuthering Heights was written looking at this landscape.
Viking Yorkshire
60 milesYork — Jorvik to the Vikings — is England's second city and its medieval heart is intact. The Minster still dominates the skyline.
The North-East
120 milesAlong the coast to Whitby, where Dracula came ashore, and north to the holy island of Lindisfarne.
Return via Durham
150 milesDurham's cathedral is England's finest Norman building. Return south through the industrial heritage of Teesside and the Midlands.
What's Included
Start Point
Manchester (flexible)
End Point
Manchester (or continue to Edinburgh)
Best For
Literature lovers and landscape enthusiasts
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