Harome in North Yorkshire listed as one of 'poshest' areas in UK

Harome, which has been described as a 'hidden gem' of North Yorkshire, might be just outside the Teesside and County Durham catchment - but it's near enough to take a little drive to discover its natural beauty. 

The quaint little village has ticked all the boxes when it comes to an upmarket country lifestyle.

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The list, which has been compiled by The Times, puts Harome up there with the likes of picture-perfect villages in places such as Dorset, Cheshire and Wiltshire.

Harome is a small village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, around 2 miles southeast of the market town of Helmsley. The village has a population of around 260 people. The name Harome simply means rocks/stones and translates from old English meaning a heap of stones.

This quaint village has several listed buildings. It also has a duck pond, a couple of churches, and the 14th-century Star Inn, which has a Michelin star. Head to nearby Helmsley for posh shops and tearooms or Kirby Sigston to spot Rishi Sunak's Grade II Georgian mansion.

Harome also joins the likes of another location, which, this time, is in the North East - Barningham.

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Located towards Darlington and Barnard Castle, it is a tiny conservation village listed in the Domesday Book under the ownership of a Saxon lord, Thor.

Today its stately home of Barningham Park, is owned by Sir Edward and Lady Natalie Milbank, whose family have owned the surrounding 7,000-acre Barningham and Holgate Estate since 1690.

Barningham has around 60 houses. It has a large village green, a church, a village hall used by local groups and a recently restored pub. It is on the edge of moors stretching westwards to Cumbria and is a good base for walking the local dales and hills.