The Clifton Hotel

HEARTBEAT COUNTRY

Details

Start Date : 3rd June 2008
End Date :
Based at : All English Rose Hotels
Location : All English Rose Locations
Cost: FREE

Description

Guests who stay at The Clifton Hotel and The Royal Hotel, in Scarborough, often visit the set of Heartbeat which is a short drive from Scarborough and is a brilliant day out, you even may get to see some of the cast.

Goathland is a village situated in the North Yorkshire Moors due north of Pickering, off the A169 road to Whitby. It is surrounded by beautiful scenery and has the advantage of having a station on the North Yorkshire Moors steam railway line.

This being said it would not normally be singled out as a pretty village and would definitely not justify the large throngs of tourists that visit the village throughout the summer months. That is if it were not famous as Aidensfield, the 1960’s setting for the popular ITV police series Heartbeat.

Fans will not be disappointed by a visit to fictional Aidensfield as many of the series landmarks are recognisable, including the stores, Garage / funeral directors, the public house and of course the railway station. Some other regular settings in the series are located outside of the village. The police house can be found about 70 miles away in the small village of Askwith near Ilkley and the police station can be found in the town of Otley, this was a real police station in past years. Now most interior shots for all the buildings are filmed in reconstructed studio’s.

The Steam Railway is a private trust that carries upwards of 200,000 passengers a year and links Grosmount with Pickering. It follows the route of the 19th century line that originally connected to Whitby and Goathland village sits 500 feet above sea level and has a history extending back to Viking times. The tame black faced sheep have a common right to graze on the village green and surrounding moorland that extends back for hundreds of years.

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