Find your favourite film location when you stay in Yorkshire

Some of our luxury cottage guests enjoy visiting film locations while they’re with us. We’ve compiled details of many locations, from Harry Potter to The Railway Children. Read on for a comprehensive list of well-known film locations nearby.

There are also details about other cultural highlights near Dalesend Cottages, including theatres, art galleries, World Heritage Sites, and cinemas.

Culture and film locations

The Georgian Theatre Royal, Richmond

This theatre is world-famous as Britain’s most complete Georgian Playhouse. It’s the smallest indoor theatre in the UK and there is always a varied calendar of performances. Just 9 miles from Dalesend Cottages.

Georgian Theatre Royal website

Fountains Abbey, Ripon

A day out to this World Heritage Site will NOT disappoint – even in the rain. If you visit, you will appreciate why.

Fountain’s Abbey website

Bronte Parsonage, Haworth

Why wouldn’t you want to see the place those interesting brainy sisters lived and wrote? Step back in time and see where they wrote Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights and The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall.

Bronte Parsonage website

West Yorkshire

The best days out here are to the Bradford area – about an hour and fifteen minutes away.
Salt Mills, Hockney Gallery, and the World Heritage Site of the Saltaire Village.

York’s Museums

There are many to visit in York including the Castle Museum, the Yorkshire Museum, Mansion House, Barley Hall, the JORVIK Viking Centre and the City Art Gallery. Just one hour’s drive from us, it makes for a wonderful day out.

Visit York website

Around Wakefield

We love the Wakefield area for the Hepworth Art Gallery,  the Henry Moore Institute and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. This is a long day out, so allow time.

Cinemas

The Station Cinema, Richmond

We love this small cinema with excellent bar and cafe. We always find a great atmosphere here. Its exhibitions are fascinating and it’s at the start of a super walk along the river Swale towards Easby Abbey. It’s 9 miles from us.

Station Cinema website

The Empire, Catterick Garrison

Fancy catching the latest blockbuster? Catterick is a large military garrison now has the multi-screen Empire Cinema. There are also some restaurants (basic chain food) and close by you will find a large Tesco open 24 hours a day. Aldi and Lidl are close by.

Empire Cinemas website

Top Yorkshire Locations on TV/Film

The Railway Children

Keighley and Worth Valley Railway – Used trains and locations in the area

Brideshead Revisited

Castle Howard – Castle Howard was the setting for the film and TV production

All Creatures Great and Small

Thirsk, Malton & Pickering – All three locations were used when filming this classic vet series

Woman in Black

Halton Gill, Littondale – Starring Daniel Radcliffe. This 2012 horror film set their Crythin Gifford village scenes at Halton Gill.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone

North Yorkshire Moors Railway – Goathland Station was transformed into “Hogsmeade” for the film

Mansfield Park

Newby Hall – Used extensively during ITV’s adaptation of this TV drama

Heartbeat

Goathland – The village of Goathland is in the North York Moors National Park and features as the village of Aidensfield in this 1960s police series

Calendar Girls

Kettlewell and The Yorkshire Dales – Filmed in the very heart of the Yorkshire Dales, Kettlewell was one of several key filming locations alongside: Settle, Skipton and Ilkley

Harry Potter and The Deathly Hallows

Malham Cove – Harry and Hermione set up camp in a tent on the Limestone Pavement at the top of Malham Cove.

Last of the Summer Wine

Holmfirth – Used to film the worlds longest running comedy

Emmerdale

Esholt, near Shipley – Provides the location for the original Emmerdale village

Other TV/Film Locations

  • Private Function – Ben Rhydding, Ilkley
  • A Chorus of Disapproval – Scarborough
  • A Sense of the Past – Hyde Park Cinema, Leeds
  • A Woman of Substance – Brimham Rocks/Richmond
  • A Great Day Out (Alan Bennett) – Halifax
  • Agatha – Harrogate, Old Swan Hotel
  • Ain’t Misbehavin’ – BBC, Harrogate
  • All Creatures Great and Small – Locations in Wensleydale, Swaledale, Arkengarthdale
  • A Passionate Woman – Set in Leeds and starring Billie Piper in 1950’s Britain
  • Band of Gold – Bradford
  • Billy Liar – Bradford and Baildon
  • Body and Soul – Bradford
  • Brideshead Revisited – Castle Howard, near York
  • Carrington – Robin Hoods Bay, North Yorkshire Moors Railway and the Dales
  • Calendar Girls – Kettlewell, Upper Wharfedale
  • Chariots of Fire – Crown Place, Crescent Gardens, Harrogate
  • Crinkley House – Askrigg
  • Darling Buds of May – Interior scenes were filmed in Yorkshire
  • David Copperfield – Robin Hoods Bay
  • DCI Banks: Aftermath – Filmed on location in Yorkshire, this ITV Detective Drama was based on the novel by Peter Robinson, who was born in Leeds.
  • Dracula – Temple Newsam House, Leeds, also Whitby
  • Emmerdale – Arncliffe, Esholt, Otley, Harewood
  • Escape from the Dark – Ripley Castle, Harrogate
  • Five Days – Filmed in Leeds, Wakefield and Dewsbury in summer 2009
  • Foxy Lady – Hebden Bridge
  • Four Lions – A 2010 dark comedy about Jihadi suicide bombers, with scenes filmed in Sheffield and Doncaster Robin Hood Airport.
  • Harry’s Game – Various city centre locations – Leeds
  • Heartbeat – Goathland, North Yorkshire
  • How We Used to Live – Armley Mills Industrial Museum, Leeds
  • In Loving Memory – Luddenden, Halifax and surrounding area
  • Jane Eyre – Keighley, Ripley Castle and Blubberhouses Moor
  • Jimmy’s (YTV documentary programme) – St James’ University Hospital, Leeds
  • Juliet Bravo – Todmorden, Widdop Moor
  • Kes – Barnsley
  • Lad: A Yorkshire Story – Settle and the Yorkshire Dales provides the back drop for this award winning film
  • Last of the Summer Wine – Holmfirth, Colne and Holme Valleys
  • Life of Charles Dickens – Armley Mills
  • Life and Times of Henry Pratt – Todmorden
  • Married Single Other – An ITV romantic comedy filmed in leeds
  • Mr Wroe’s Virgins – Heptonstall
  • My Brother Jonathan – Hyde Park Cinema, Leeds
  • Oh no it’s Selwyn Froggitt – Skelmanthorpe, Clavton West
  • Only Fools and Horses (To Hull & Back) – City Varieties, Leeds
  • Open All Hours – Balby, Doncaster
  • PC Penrose (Rosie) – Rossington, Doncaster and Scarborough
  • Pulse – Medical horror filmed at various West Yorkshire locations
  • Raffles – Bramham Park near Wetherby
  • Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves – Aysgarth Falls, Hardraw Force
  • Room at the Top – Calderdale
  • Seaforth – Beeston, Hebden Bridge, Killingbeck, Harewood House, Saltburn, Bradford, Harrogate and Leeds
  • Secret Garden – Fountains Hall and Allerton Park, Harrogate
  • See you at Wembley (Frankie Walsh) – Hull and Burton Agnes
  • Sharpe – Hardcastle Crags, Hebden Bridge and East Riddlesden Hall, Keighley
  • Sherlock Holmes – Lotherton Hall, Leeds, and Allerton Park
  • Song of Experience – Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, Hyde Park Picture House
  • Spanish Flu – The Forgotten Fallen – BBC Four drama filmed in Saltaire Village near Bradford, Armley Mills Museum in Leeds and Dewsbury Town Hall
  • Stay Lucky – Sowerby Bridge and around Leeds/Liverpool canal basin in Leeds
  • Sunday, Bloody Sunday – The Dons RL Football Ground, Tattersfield, Doncaster
  • The Beiderbecke Affair – In and around Leeds and Wakefield
  • The Citadel – Hebden Bridge
  • The Full Monty – This BBC Three comedy was filmed in Hebden Bridge and Heptonstall
  • The Gemma Factor – Sheffield
  • The Good Old Days – City Varieties, Leeds
  • The King’s Speech – Elland Road in Leeds and Odsal Stadium in Bradford feature at the beginning of the film
  • The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister – A BBC Two drama filmed on locaton in North and West Yorkshire
  • This is England ’86 – Channel 4’s serial was filmed in Sheffield
  • The Trip – Steve Coogan and Rob Bryden star in this BBC 2 comedy series filmed in the Craven District and Yorkshire Dales.
  • The Waterbabies – Denton Hall, Ilkley and countryside around
  • The Railway Children (1970) – Keighley and Worth Valley Railway
  • The Royal – North York Moors and coast, sharing Heartbeat’s location
  • The Sporting Life – Wakefield
  • The Final Conflict – Fountains Abbey
  • The Dresser – Alhambra Theatre, Bradford and Halifax
  • Touch of Frost – Leeds city centre and suburbs, Dewsbury, Thackley near Bradford
  • Wuthering Heights (1939,1993) – Keighley, Grassington, Hubberholme and Arncliffe
  • Yanks – Keighley

Lights, camera, relaxation

Why not treat yourself to some of that quintessential English countryside that you’ve seen on screen? Our luxury holiday cottages are tucked away on a private Yorkshire estate.

Our Hayloft Cottage has a wood burner and a luxurious free-standing bath at the foot of the bed. If you’d like a hot tub, you may want to consider Tack Room Cottage. For cottages with two rooms rather than open plan, there are Groom’s Rooms Cottage and Head Lad Cottage.