{"id":109946,"date":"2019-08-16T22:29:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T15:29:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-helmsley-north-yorkshire-super-sweet-and-picture-perfect\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T23:03:35","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T16:03:35","slug":"lets-move-to-helmsley-north-yorkshire-super-sweet-and-picture-perfect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/lets-move-to-helmsley-north-yorkshire-super-sweet-and-picture-perfect\/","title":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s move to Helmsley, North Yorkshire: super sweet and picture perfect"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nThe town is straight off a box of fudge, all honeyed stone and pansies waving from prize-winning basketsWhat\u2019s going for it? Helmsley\u2019s so sweet I can feel the cavities forming in my teeth from 10 miles away. The town is straight off a box of fudge, all honeyed stone and pansies waving from prize-winning hanging baskets. Utterly delicious, with its Norman castle, Palladian pile, secret garden and streets of rigorously renovated and scrupulously scrubbed 18th-century cottages. Just not very good for the waistline. Imagine living here: you\u2019d need a will of iron, blinkers or a StairMaster tethered to your shins to cope with the tea shops and bakers, delis and grocers, selling sucrose in various forms: pickles, preserves, jams, chutneys, chocs, fudge, treacle, Yorkshire curd tarts, mint choc chips… To survive, work it all off in the open air pool \u2013 don\u2019t worry, it\u2019s heated. Or look beneath the packaging and see the earthier market town it was, and sometimes still is. Market day, Friday mornings, perhaps, when the tarpaulined stalls are hugger-mugger. Or on a Sunday afternoon in summer, when the leavening presence of leathered bikers congregate with coach parties in Market Place, pausing for a pint en route to Scarborough. Some of the best charity shops in the north, according to resident Simon Read \u2013 a virtue of an ageing population.The case against Too sweet, too Tory, too touristy for some. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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