Press and citation

Press kit and citation

By Jon Cosson · Updated 17 October 2026

What a writer, club magazine, parish newsletter or partner site needs to describe this guide accurately and link to it consistently.

I would rather be cited correctly than cited often. Everything on this page is written to be copied verbatim, so that nobody has to guess at what this guide is or paraphrase it into something it is not.

How to name this guide

The full name is Yorkshire Moors Visitor Guide. The short form is Yorkshire Moors. The domain is yorkshiremoors.com. Please do not call it official, and please do not describe it as connected with the North York Moors National Park Authority, because it is neither.

It is written by one person. Naming me, Jon Cosson, is welcome, and it is not required. If you would rather credit the guide alone, that is fine.

Boilerplate you may copy

One sentence

Yorkshire Moors (yorkshiremoors.com) is an independent, non commercial visitor guide to the North York Moors National Park and the coast that edges it.

Short, for listings and directories

Yorkshire Moors (yorkshiremoors.com) is an independent visitor guide to the North York Moors National Park and the coast that edges it. It is free to read and carries no advertising, no affiliate links and no sponsored content. Nothing on it is for sale and no business has paid to appear on it.

Longer, for a press piece

Yorkshire Moors (yorkshiremoors.com) is an independent, non commercial visitor guide to the North York Moors, written by one person who lives locally in the North York Moors, near Thornton-le-Dale. It covers the National Park and the coast that edges it, from Helmsley across to Whitby and down to Scarborough: the villages, the walks, the steam railway, the dark skies and the practical business of getting about. It is free to read, carries no advertising, affiliate links or sponsored content, and nothing on it is for sale. It is willing to say when a place is not worth the drive, and it does not guess at opening times or prices, pointing instead at the venue's own information.

Citation formats

Three worked examples, using the moorland safety page as the source.

In prose, with a link

Yorkshire Moors Visitor Guide, Moorland safety, accessed [date you accessed it].

As a footnote or endnote

Yorkshire Moors Visitor Guide, "Moorland safety", yorkshiremoors.com/plan/moorland-safety (accessed [date you accessed it]).

As a plain reference for print

Yorkshire Moors Visitor Guide. "Moorland safety." yorkshiremoors.com, page path /plan/moorland-safety. Accessed [date you accessed it].

Substitute the date you actually read the page for the bracketed placeholder in each example.

Pages worth linking to

If you are linking, one of these is usually a better target than the home page, because it answers the question your reader arrived with.

yorkshiremoors.com, the guide itself
/plan-my-day, the place finder, with places checked against the venue's own information, each showing the month it was checked
/plan/moorland-safety, wildfire, weather, cliffs, ticks, adders and livestock
/north-york-moors-with-dogs, where dogs are allowed, village by village
/walks, the walks, with maps and parking
/places, the villages and towns
/things-to-do/dark-sky-stargazing, where to go and what you can see
/weather, a five day forecast for the moors
/faq, 70 questions and answers
/how-this-guide-works, the editorial standard

The older path /classic-car-touring/yorkshire-road-trips is a permanent redirect kept working for old links. The Bangers & Cash pages have moved to our Thornton-le-Dale site, and their old addresses here redirect there. Please do not use any of these old paths as a link target.

Quick facts for fact checkers

Published by: One person, Jon Cosson, who lives locally in the North York Moors, near Thornton-le-Dale.
Funding: None. No advertising, no affiliate links, no sponsored content, no paid inclusion and nothing for sale.
Size: 167 pages listed in the sitemap, plus journal and news posts published from a database. There is no single combined total quoted here, because the post count changes.
The place finder: 29 places, each checked against the venue's own information, each showing the month it was checked, currently August 2026.
Verification: The place finder carries a checked month for every entry. Many guide pages also show their last check date; a publication or update date is not a claim of an in-person visit.
Weather data: Open-Meteo.
Maps: OpenStreetMap contributors.
Typefaces: Fraunces for display and Source Sans 3 for body text, served from Google Fonts.
Not affiliated with: The North York Moors National Park Authority, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway, English Heritage, the National Trust, Go Ape, Mathewsons, or any business, club or attraction the guide writes about.

Photographs and permissions

If you believe an image is used wrongly, please get in touch and I will deal with it promptly.

Text may be quoted with attribution to yorkshiremoors.com and a link. Whole pages should not be republished. Photographs should not be reused without asking me first.

The other guides I write

I also write three village guides on this side of the moors, thorntonledale.org, allerston.org and ebberston.org. The classic car archives are listed on the about page, and they are kept separate from this guide because a visitor guide and a marque archive are different jobs.

Enquiries

Everything comes through the contact page, and I answer it all myself. Corrections are more welcome than anything else, particularly from people who live here or who have just been.

Where to stay in the North York Moors

Self-catering cottages, village inns and farmhouse boltholes right across the moors, from the southern villages to the coast.

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