bugalugs Says: If you visit Grassington during the festive season, you need to wrap up warm, and also bring an umbrella. The day we visited he had rained during most of the journey, but thankfully stopped when we got there.It was therefore cold and damp, here we are in the photo (dont know...
Food and Drink!!!!! - Best Part !
bugalugs Says: There are a few restaurants/cafes and pubs in Grassington, but as you can imagine they are very busy. We popped into the pub, only to get warm really!!!!!This is a photo of one of the restaurants.
bugalugs Says: We parked on the road leading to Grassington last time we visited. Things though have certainly changed. Before entering Grassington you will see signs for visitors parking. Parking is on the site of a working quarry, but as it is a saturday when these special christmas...
bugalugs Says: With these events held just before Christmas its nice to have a look round the local shops. Selling books, paintings, toys, crafts, and all manner of things.This photograph I took in a lovely little shop, with big oak beams. The shop is a combination of lots of little rooms,...
bugalugs Says: Not sure whether I would class this as culteral, but along with other activities going on, there is also a Punch and Judy show. I suppose with the residents dressing in dickensian costume, (meaning from the time of Charles Dickens), that Punch and Judy must have been around...
bugalugs Says: For three Saturdays from the end of November, Grassington becomes Dickensian!!!In actual fact all the shop keepers/hoteliers/locals dress up in dickensian costume and we the tourists, flock there!!! Well thats the way it seemed when we visited.
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Skipton which is about 9 miles south of Grassington is the nearest train station. There are buses from Skipton which take you into Grassington.
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Grassington in the Yorkshire Dales

Grassington is situated in the Yorkshire Dales, in an area known as Upper Wharfedale. I had always thought Grassington to be a village but apparently as it name depicts Grassing 'ton', meaning a town....
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Grassington is one of the Dales most popular villages for tourists. A very busy village popular with both walkers and day trippers and of course those who base themselves for a holiday in the Dales....
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A small town in picturesque Wharfedale, Yorkshire, England. First granted a charter and fair in 1282 that it continually ran until 1860 when lead mining took over the town bringing prosperity and in...
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