Tracks and Trails

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. Goathland itself is a very busy moorland village with wide verges, houses and greens with its history extending back to Viking times.

Goathland is also famous as being the fictional town of Aidensfield in the Yorkshire televisions series of Heartbeat and Goathland station was used as Hogwarts station in the first Harry Potter film.

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