Raby Castle – Staindrop (14th Century castle surrounded by a 200 acre deer park).

Newby Hall – Ripon (With extensive gardens including a miniature steam train).

Harewood House and Bird Garden – Harrogate.

Castle Howard – Near York (Brideshead Revisited)

Middleham Castle – Wensleydale (Home of Richard III).

Bolton Castle – Wensleydale (Where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned).

Green Howards Museum – Richmond (Regimental)

Georgian Theatre Museum – Richmond (An active and unique theater built in 1788).

Beamish Open Air Museum =- Chester le Street (Electric tram cars, shops, houses, a pub, a working farm, colliery and its pit houses to name but a few in this reconstruction of northern life in the 1900’s).

Coach and Carriage Museum – Aysgarth

Jorvik Viking Museum – York (Step into a time car and become part of the Viking community).

Bowes Museum – Barnard Castle (A great art collection housed in a French Chateau and standing its own landscaped gardens).

Richmond Falls – Perhaps one of the most popular rambles around the Richmond area, and rightly so. Only three miles in distance but packed with interest and wonderful scenery.

Aysgarth Falls – A triple flight of waterfalls, surrounded by forest and farmland, carved out by the River Ure over an almost one-mile stretch on its descent to mid-Wensleydale.

High Force at Middleton – Discover the force of nature at High Force, one of the most spectacular waterfalls in England, located at Forest-in-Teesdale, in the heart of the Durham Dales, Co. Durham.