Inside the chocolate-box Yorkshire village with a starring TV role: Exploring beautiful Grassington, where Channel 5’s All Creatures Great & Small is filmed [Video]

10:42 EDT 11 Mar 2024 , updated 11:19 EDT 11 Mar 2024

Channel 5‘s All Creatures Great & Small is always a crowd pleaser: warm-hearted, evocative, and full of much-needed bonhomie.

And you can grab yourself some of that heartwarming fun by visiting the Yorkshire village of Grassington, where the series is filmed.

Grassington, in the Wharfedale valley, stands in for the fictional Dales town of Darrowby from James Herriot’s beloved book series It Shouldn’t Happen to a Vet.

James Herriot – real name Alf Wight – was a Scottish vet who practised in Thirsk for nearly 50 years and based his books on real-life characters. 

The centre of Thirsk has changed a great deal since the 1930s and 1940s when Wight’s books were set, and so filmmakers use nearby towns and villages as stand-ins. The much-loved BBCversion of the series – broadcast between 1978 and 1990 – was filmed in Wensleydale and Swaledale, with the village of Askrigg standing …