Wold Top Brewery founder Tom Mellor on Beryl Burton, Michael Parkinson and The Grand Hotel in Scarborough

Growing up on a farm on the Wolds. Wide open spaces and the sea nearby. I am lucky enough to be a third generation farmer on a beautiful Wolds farm which my grandfather bought in 1945 when he he moved the whole family over from Triangle, near Halifax, where the family business was a coaching inn.

What’s your favourite part of the county – and why?

The Wolds. It's the area I know best and has a great combination of food production and fantastic environmental features all wrapped up in a spectacular landscape. Dry valleys and chalk grasslands together with Bronze, Roman and Viking influence.

What’s your idea of a perfect day, or a perfect weekend, out in Yorkshire?

Discovering something or somewhere new in the county, followed by an evening with friends sampling some of the best food and drink Yorkshire has to offer.

Do you have a favourite walk – or view?

Walk – there are a couple. From the farm, via the centenary and Wolds way, through the dry valleys around Fordon or walking to Filey and then the beach. View – from the top of the Wolds escarpment near Warter overlooking the Vale of York, over to the Dales in one direction and all the way to Ferrybridge in another.

Which Yorkshire sportsman, past or present, would you like to take for lunch?