Moving to Harrogate (or York)

[Simpleman]

Hello everyone
I'm looking for some much needed advice.
We're relocating from London and we don't know the area at all.
We're exploring York and Harrogate as possible places to live (I've also posted on York thread)
What are the best areas of Harrogate for a family? We're looking for nice residential area not too far from town centre/station as I'll be commuting to Leeds. A bus ride/15 minute cycle to station would be fine if it means we can get a better choice of house/area.
Unlike many other posters we don't want to live in a village.
Primary school is important for DS who is due to start in September (and of course later secondary but focus right now is primary)
House - Ideally we'd want a 4/5 bed house with garden, in good location, preference would be Victorian/Georgian/traditional style house.
Budget - £500-650k. If something exceptional then we cold possibly stretch to the £750k mark, maybe a touch more.
Grateful for any advice or insight people can offer as we are flying blind.
I appreciate there have been a number of posts but often peoiple's budgets/requirements are very different and we want to be near to the town centre - ideally walking distance but we appreciate it's all about compromise.
Thanks in advance and sorry for posting this.
We're hoping to visit in the next few weeks so it would be great to know where we should focus our efforts.