Chauffeur Service in York

The Minster is visible from almost everywhere, the Shambles is genuinely medieval rather than merely old, and the racecourse on the Knavesmire holds some of the best flat racing in the country across the summer. Visitors come for weekends, for weddings, for the races, and for the pleasure of a city small enough to cross on foot in half an hour and dense enough to fill three days.

The bar walls and the pedestrianised streets mean there are only so many places a car can legitimately stop, and the ones that work are not the obvious ones. We use them. Journeys here typically involve the station, the hotels on Lendal and around the Minster, the racecourse on Ebor weekend when the Tadcaster Road backs up for miles, and the country hotels out towards Escrick and Bishopthorpe.

Castle Howard is half an hour north east and one of the great houses of England. Harrogate lies west with its spa and its tea rooms, the North York Moors run out towards Whitby and the coast, and the Dales begin beyond Ripon. Leeds is under an hour away, and Fountains Abbey makes an unhurried afternoon for anyone wanting something quieter than another cathedral.

Leeds Bradford Airport is roughly fifty to seventy minutes away, with Manchester around an hour and a half to two hours for long-haul. From London the A1 or M1 typically takes four to five hours, with the Peterborough and Doncaster stretches deciding most of the difference. The King's Cross train reaches York in around two hours and we meet it at the station entrance.