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Yarm
Town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England

Yarm

Yarm-on-Tees, or simply Yarm, is a market town and civil parish in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees in North Yorkshire, England.

Plan a trip to Yarm→From Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear

It lies on a meander of the River Tees, extending south-east to the River Leven and south to the village of Kirklevington. Yarm is near the towns of Stockton-on-Tees, 5 miles (8.0 km) to its northeast, and Darlington, 11 miles (18 km) to its west.

Get in

Getting to Yarm

Follow A19: from the south branch off on A67. From the north join A66 west to come onto A135. Arriva Bus 7 runs from Stockton-on-Tees via Eaglescliffe to Yarm, taking 25 min. It's every 20 min M-Sa and hourly on Sunday.

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    Teesside Airport
See

Worth seeing

Yarm High Street is a broad, part-cobbled thoroughfare with many Georgian buildings, such as the dinky little Town Hall built in 1710. Pity about the traffic: heavy vehicles are banned but it's still the busy A67. Yarm Castle wouldn't repel any invader for long. It's almost 3 feet tall, and it's simply a garden ornament at 52 West Street.

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    Yarm Viaduct
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    Yarm Methodist Church

    Octagonal church built in 1763 as a "Preaching House" since only Anglicans were allowed to have churches at that date.

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    Preston Park Museum

    In a Georgian manor, once the residence of industrial magnate Robert Ropner, the museum displays the history of Teesside, including a street from 1895.

Do

Things to do

Princess Alexander Auditorium and Friarage Theatre are within Yarm School, Box Office +44 1642 792587. Eaglescliffe Golf Club, Yarm Road, Eaglescliffe TS16 0DQ (opposite Eaglescliffe railway station), admin@eaglescliffegolfclub.co.uk. 6289 yard 18-hole course, par 72.

Eat

Where to eat

The Waiting Room, 9 Station Road TS16 0BU (next to Eaglescliffe railway station), eat@the-waiting-room.co.uk. Tue-Sun noon-2:30PM, 5:30-9PM. Long-standing vegetarian restaurant, licensed, lots of vegan choice. Framboisette is within Locomotion Hotel at Eaglescliffe railway station, open W-Sa noon-2PM, 5-8PM, Su noon-3PM (Feb 2026). Muse at 104B Yarm High St is open M-Sa 9AM-9PM, Su 9AM-5PM (Feb 2026).

How locals move

Getting around Yarm the local way

  • Get inMiddlesbrough is a busy commercial port but has no ferry service.
  • Get inThe nearest ferry ports are Port of Tyne downriver from Newcastle (from IJmuiden near Amsterdam) and Hull (from Rotterdam).

From Wikivoyage: Middlesbrough, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia and Wikivoyage, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Lee Bunce (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.