Yorkshire pulls in 20% of country's literary holiday makers

New research shows 20% of trips with a literary link were to Yorkshire, home of Haworth and Brontë country and Whitby Abbey, which inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula.

Figures from VisitEngland show that more than half of British holiday makers would visit a literary attraction on holiday in England.

Findings also show that a quarter of Brits visited a literary location in England during a holiday break in the last year. The same amount had read literature relating to a place they had visited in the country.

VisitEngland’s first ever research into literary tourism, which surveyed more than 1200 people, found that 21% of trips with a literary link were to London.

Famous for its connections with Harry Potter, Sherlock Holmes and Charles Dickens, the capital just pipped Yorkshire to pole position.