Just up the road from the 17th century Fauconberg Arms in the pretty village of Coxwold in North Yorkshire, England, is the splendid early 15th century medieval church of St Michael's with its unusual octagonal tower and Shandy Hall (15th-17th century), where Laurence Stern (1713-1768), author of "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy" lived. More pictures-notes of Coxwold and Helmsley area.

The Coxwold Tearooms offer an alternative source of refreshment on the road out of Coxwold that leads up to the entrance to Newburgh Priory, a Tudor manor house (15th-16th century) built from the original medieval Augustinian Priory buildings (founded 1145) and the lake by the roadside below the priory entrance. Both the priory and the buildings of Coxwold are major tourist attractions.