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Authors - North Yorkshire Walking Tour
Yorkshire

From the church carving said to have inspired the Cheshire Cat to the spa hotel where Agatha Christie was found, a road trip through North Yorkshire's literary landmarks.

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Where the Grin Began

A grinning cat carved into this church, where Lewis Carroll's father was rector, is one of the carvings said to have inspired the Cheshire Cat.

The Real Skeldale House

James Herriot's Skeldale House was really this Thirsk surgery, where the vet Alf Wight lived and worked from 1940 until he retired in 1989.

Alas, Poor Yorick

Laurence Sterne lived in this house while writing A Sentimental Journey, and after grave robbers sold his body to anatomists, his skull came back to Coxwold in 1969.

The Real Thornfield

Charlotte Brontë heard the legend of a madwoman locked in this house's attic in 1839, and in 2004 a hidden staircase like the one in Jane Eyre was found here.

The Vanishing Novelist

When Agatha Christie vanished for eleven days in 1926, she was found at this Harrogate spa hotel, registered under the surname of her husband's mistress.

A Poet's Birthplace

The poet W.H. Auden, whose "Funeral Blues" reached millions through Four Weddings and a Funeral, was born in this York house in 1907.

Take Courage

Anne Brontë is the only Brontë sister not buried at Haworth, and the wrong age carved on her headstone went uncorrected until 2011.

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