William Shakespeare
YORKSHIRE has been named as the top county for holidays with a literary link, according to new figures from Visit England.
To mark the 20th anniversary of World Book Day today, VisitEngland commissioned its first ever research into literary tourism, surveying more than 1,200 people.
The results show 20 per cent of trips taken with a literary link were to Yorkshire, home of the Brontës, Herriot country, and Whitby Abbey, which inspired Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
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