North Yorkshire

North Yorkshire, part of the historical county of Yorkshire (the White Rose county), has a current population of approximately 5,977,00 and is situated to the East of Cumbria and Lancashire and stretches to the East coast of England. This is a beautiful part of England with over 40 percent of the county being covered by National Parks e.g. the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors .  It also includes the historic city of York and popular seaside towns such as Scarborough and Whitby situated on the popular Yorkshire Coast.

Mainly a rural county there are some interesting market towns and beautiful old buildings to visit in North Yorkshire, including Skipton, Harrogate, Thirsk (made famous by the James Herriot books), Ripon and of course Whitby Abbey and Castle Howard where the famous Brideshead Revisited films were made.

Education within North Yorkshire is the responsibility of North Yorkshire County Council and the situation of all schools within the county can be viewed here.

For geographical reasons, we are only able to currently place students on the One-Term Placements Programme in the western part of North Yorkshire and schools involved include:

Ermysted’s Grammar School      Settle College     South Craven School