Key Green Farmhouse
Egton Bridge
Whitby, North Yorkshire
YO22 5AX
01947 895601
keygreenfarmhouse@yahoo.co.uk

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Key Green Farmhouse is situated about quarter of a mile outside Egton Bridge (map). Egton Bridge is a small village with two pubs, The Horseshoe Hotel (the bottom Horseshoe) and The Postgate Inn both of which serve excellent food. The village also has a large catholic church.

In the heart of the village is Egton Estate, offering salmon fishing on the Egton Estate beat of the River Esk (tel: 01947 895466). Day tickets are limited to three rods per day and hours of fishing are from 7am to midnight in 15 named pools. Prices are from £20 per rod. The Estate runs shooting parties during the grouse and pheasant seasons.

A further half a mile from Egton Bridge is the village of Egton with two further pubs Ye Old Horseshoe Inn (the top horseshoe) and The Wheatsheaf, both of which also serve excellent food. Egton also has a large church, village shop and garage.

We are 5 miles from Goathland, famous as Aidensfield in the TV series 'Heartbeat'. Goathland station also featured recently in the Harry Potter films as Hogsmeade - the station for Hogwarts School. Grosmont is the northern terminus of the North York Moors Railway, and is only 3 miles from Key Green.

Whitby is a ten minute drive away and offers attractions such as the Abbey situated at the top of the famous 199 steps, The Captain Cook Museum, and its' Dracula connections. Plus the usual seaside attractions of amusements, ice creams and fish and chips.

This area of the North York Moors is probably best known for it's excellent walking and cycling routes, many routes can be started from the house.

From left to right: the annexe, Key Green Farmhouse and Key Green cottage	'Heartbeat' filming outside the house
Stepping Stones at Egton Bridge	View from the house towards Egton

Directions

From the south:
From the A1 take the A64 sign posted for York. Stay on this road past York until Malton, join the A169 signposted for Pickering. Stay on the A169 through Pickering. Once you have past the RAF Fylingdales base, take the next left, sign posted Goathland. On reaching Goathland turn left at the junction, sign posted Egton Bridge. Stay on this road for 5 miles, you will reach a T junction, Key Green Farmhouse is on this T junction, on the left hand side of the road.

From the North/West:
Head along the A171 'moors road' from Guisborough, take the turning sign posted for Egton on a sharp bend. Drive through Egton and down into Egton Bridge, go through the village, round the sharp bend to the junction for Rosedale. Carry straight on up the steep hill out of the village for a quarter of a mile, sign posted for Goathland. At the next junction you will see Key Green Farmhouse, turn left into the junction, and sharp right onto the drive.

By Train:
There is a station in Egton Bridge. From the station we are a half mile walk along the Goathland Road (up a steep hill).

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