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A tiny village at the base of a steep hill, in one of valleys close to Goathland. Both road routes into Beck Hole involve very steep slopes just before the village.
Beck Hole was once famous for the Beck Hole incline, a 1 in 15 slope on what is now the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. The current route was created in 1865 to 
allow steam trains to travel the entire route, replacing a complex arrangement of water filled tanks used to raise and lower carriages. The old route is now a footpath, leaving the current route at Moorgates, one and a half miles south of Goathland, and rejoining it a mile and a half north of Beck Holes.
One mile north west of Goathland
Beck Holes is host to the World Quoits Championship.
Birch Hall Inn
Thomason Foss waterfall is less than half a mile east of the village.
One mile west of the village is Randy Mere Reservoir, once the site of a commercial leach fishery.
Beck Hole is on Ordnance Survey Explorer Map OL27 (North Yorks Moors Eastern Area)
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