Hello, and welcome to this website dedicated to James Herriot. It gathers together a collection of topics, walks, pictures and even some recipes, all related to James Herriot.

A bit of background.. James Herriot’s books have been a constant companion for me ever since I read the first one as a teenager. I had been gifted the book by an aunt and thought it would be all about animals and yukky operations, so I opened it with very low expectations. But I soon found myself lying on the floor of a cow byre with cold cobbles digging in my back. I was captivated. And the more I read, the more I discovered that the books were not just about animals and operations. They were mostly about people. Yorkshire Dales people.

Much later, during the COVID Shutdown of 2020/21, I decided to bring a piece of James Herriot’s Yorkshire into my home by cooking some of the food that featured in the book ‘The Best of James Herriot‘. I created this website to record my progress [ see ‘Mrs Halls Cookbook‘. Since then I have added other items related to James Herriot such as a re-tracing the Youth Hostels walk that Alf Wight describes in ‘James Herriot’s Yorkshire‘ , researching his overseas trips and various other James Herriot related topics.

I don’t sell or advertise anything from this site, that’s not what it is for. I simply wanted to create a record of one of our country’s great authors and the people and places that he describes so vividly in his books.

Come with me and explore the magical world of James Herriot…

Roger.