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Confirmed · Grassington & Wharfedale · Village

Kettlewell and Top Mere Road

Additional Darrowby exteriors; James runs along Top Mere Road in Series 1 in the Channel 5 series. Open to visitors; allow 30–60 minutes.

Stony Top Mere Road descending between dry-stone walls towards Kettlewell
Photo: Gordon Hatton / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0 ↗
On screen as
Additional Darrowby exteriors; James runs along Top Mere Road in Series 1
Series and episodes
Series 1
Access
Open to visitors
Time needed
30–60 minutes
Area
Kettlewell, North Yorkshire

On screen

How Kettlewell and Top Mere Road appears

Kettlewell supplies additional Darrowby exteriors, while James runs along Top Mere Road in Series 1.

The real place

What you can visit

Use village streets and public rights of way. The road is part of a working rural landscape, not a closed set.

Park in the village and keep gates and road access clear.

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Plan your visit

Build it into a workable Yorkshire day.

Grassington, Burnsall and Arncliffe.

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Map

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Routes including this place

Continue with a prepared trail

Nearby

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Market stalls in Grassington market square, the principal Darrowby filming location
Photo: Chris Heaton / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Open to visitors

Grassington

Darrowby market square and principal village exteriors

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View from public space only

Skeldale House

Skeldale House exterior; interiors are a purpose-built set

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The stone Devonshire pub frontage and outdoor benches in Grassington
Photo: Andrew Abbott / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Pub · rooms

The Devonshire

Exterior of the fictional Drovers Arms

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Blue shopfront of The Stripey Badger bookshop on Grassington market square
Photo: Jennifer Petrie / Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
Bookshop · Café

The Stripey Badger

G F Endleby's grocer

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Sources