The real-life All Creatures Great and Small locations in Yorkshire

The Channel 5 favourite is back for its seventh series, bringing the fictional Yorkshire village of Darrowby and its sweeping countryside back to screens.

Tonight is the second episode of the series, with Siegfried is attempting to keep up with the times, treat a sow and keep his cool through it all.

Siegfried is attempting to keep up with the times, treat a sow and keep his cool through it al

Here is your first look at Episode 2 of Series 7 📸 Siegfried is attempting to keep up with the times, treat a sow and keep his cool through it all 👀 ACGAS Series 7 continues Thursday at 9pm on @Channel 5 https://t.co/ImfpL6lS1S

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And Darrowby is not quite as fictional as it looks.

Much of the series is filmed across Yorkshire, with real pubs, shops, railway stations, waterfalls and villages transformed to recreate the world of the famous vet.

And several of its most recognisable locations can be visited on a day out from Bolton.

Grassington becomes Darrowby

The place fans are most likely to recognise is Grassington.

The Yorkshire Dales village undergoes a remarkable transformation to become Darrowby , with modern signs removed or covered and its shops given period makeovers.

Its cobbled streets and market square have become some of the defining images of the Channel 5 series.

Even the shops viewers see are real businesses in disguise.

The Stripey Badger bookshop has been transformed into fictional grocer G F Endleby, while other buildings around the square are dressed to look as though they belong in James Herriot’s era.

Screen Yorkshire says the transformation has previously been so convincing that visitors have walked into shops during filming expecting to find the fictional businesses inside.

You can have a drink at The Drovers – sort of

One of the best-known locations in Darrowby is also a real pub.

The Drovers Arms is another location in the TV show

The Devonshire in Grassington becomes the exterior of The Drovers Arms, where James, Tristan, Siegfried and the other characters are regularly seen.

Visitors can therefore stand outside the same building seen on screen – and go inside for a drink.

There is, however, a catch.

The interior viewers know as The Drovers was filmed at another pub around 30 miles away.

The Green Dragon Inn in Hardraw has been used for scenes inside the fictional watering hole, meaning the two halves of The Drovers are actually in completely different villages.

Mrs Pumphrey’s grand home is real too

The impressive home associated with the eccentric Mrs Pumphrey and her beloved Tricki Woo can also be found in Yorkshire.

Broughton Hall, near Skipton, has been used by the production for her grand country home .

Broughton Hall

The Grade I-listed house sits within a sprawling historic estate and is one of a number of locations around the Skipton area to have appeared in the programme.

James’s waterfall swim

Fans may also remember the rather chilly-looking moment James went swimming in a waterfall before being discovered by Helen.

That was not a studio set.

The scene was filmed at Janet’s Foss, a woodland waterfall near Malham .

Janet’s Forest

The beauty spot is accessible on foot from Malham and is one of the most striking real locations to have appeared in the series.

The wider countryside around Malham has also been used to create the sweeping Yorkshire landscape seen on screen.

The railway station has another claim to fame

James Herriot’s world would not be complete without a traditional railway station – and producers found one which already had an impressive film history.

Oakworth station on the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway was used in the Channel 5 adaptation.

Long before All Creatures arrived, the station became famous as a filming location for the 1970 classic The Railway Children.

Keighley station has also been used during filming of All Creatures Great and Small.

Bolton Abbey has appeared on screen

There is even a familiar name among the filming locations.

Barden Bridge on the Bolton Abbey Estate has appeared in the series, with the surrounding landscape providing exactly the kind of dramatic Dales scenery for which the programme has become known.

Barden Birdge

Despite its name, of course, Bolton Abbey is in North Yorkshire rather than Bolton.

And there are plenty more

The production has travelled extensively around Yorkshire since the Channel 5 adaptation first hit screens.

Bradford Industrial Museum was used in the opening episode, while locations including Kettlewell, Arncliffe, Ripley Castle, Newby Hall, Birstwith Hall and Scar House Reservoir have all featured.

The North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Ritz Cinema in Thirsk and Studley Royal Cricket Club have also been used to transport modern-day Yorkshire back to James Herriot’s time.

But for anyone wanting the closest thing to walking into All Creatures Great and Small, Grassington remains the place to go.

With Darrowby’s square, familiar shopfronts and the exterior of The Drovers all within walking distance, fans might find themselves recognising parts of the village before they even realise why.

All Creatures Great and Small returned for its seventh series on Channel 5 on Thursday, September 17, with new episodes airing on Thursdays.