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Helmsley is a small market town on the edge of the North York Moors in Ryedale complete with four former coaching inns and a dazzling half timbered rectory. The River Rye flows through the town. Helmsley hasn't always been such a peaceful backwater. At the height of its prosperity as a weaving centre in the seventeenth century, the loom operators were famous for their thirsts, their songs and their leather breeches".
Helmsley is now a favourite haunt of walkers rather than drinkers. Indeed many walkers gather at the market cross to begin the Cleveland Way which goes round the North York Moors National Park. It's also a popular little shopping centre and the car parks are always full.