North York Moors National Park
North York Moors: Where the Heather Is Purple, the Abbeys Are Ruined, and the Steam Trains Run More Reliably Than the Actual Railway HELMSLEY — The North York Moors National Park, a 1,436 square kilometre expanse of purple heather moorland, crumbling abbeys, impossibly steep coastal cliffs, and one of the finest heritage railways in the world, presents a compelling argument that the best things in Yorkshire were either built by…