Attractions
How Stean Gorge
How Stean Gorge is well-known as one of the best North Yorkshire attractions and with good reason. Featuring so much natural beauty, visitors can explore natural caves, walk through flowing ravines, climb up rocks, participate in a high-wire adventure, and more! Grab Your Hard Hat and Map At the ticket desk, you’ll be given a map to help you explore every nook and cranny of this natural hidden gem. We advise you to arrive in...
Ripon Courthouse Museum
Step into the 1800s and explore the fascinating world of Victorian justice at the Ripon Courthouse Museum. Relive the...
Mother Shipton's Cave and Petrifying Well
Mother Shipton’s is a beloved Knaresborough landmark and England’s oldest visitor attraction, open since 1630. This popular visitor attraction...
Ripon Workhouse & Garden Museum
The Ripon Workhouse & Gardens in the centre of Ripon weave together the history of the notorious Victorian workhouse...
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A broad and fascinating array of unique attractions is waiting to be discovered when you visit the Harrogate District.
Historic abbeys, castles, country houses and monuments tell the ancient stories of politics, religion and power. From Roman mosaics and medieval strongholds to 18th Century showpieces, generations have left their mark for us to see today.
No visit is complete without a trip to the World Heritage Site of Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal or the lovely Ripon Cathedral, believed to be a source of inspiration for Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.
As you would expect from the home of the prestigious Harrogate Flower Shows, this part of the world is a garden lover’s paradise. We have an extraordinary range of almost forty parks and gardens to enjoy including the Royal Horticultural Society’s most northerly gardens, magnificent formal and public gardens and some more exotic surprises too!
There is plenty among our attractions to keep the whole family entertained with a variety of visitor attractions offering anything from nature trails and adventure playgrounds to miniature railways, ice-skating and boating. With the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on our doorstep there is every opportunity to experience the outdoors with a little adventure or just take some time to explore the wonders of the natural world.
Museums and galleries are peppered across the District, each different to the next and our lively theatres and cinemas and rich programme of leading arts festivals mean that there is always something to entertain you.
Whatever your age, whatever your passion you will always find something memorable to do when you visit this District.
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Markenfield Hall
Stillingfleet Lodge Gardens
Stockeld Park
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Bewerley Grange Chapel
Ripon Walled Garden
Ripon Cathedral
Ripon Spa Gardens
Skipton Castle
Knaresborough Castle & Museum
Birchfield Family Dairies
Aldborough Roman Settlement
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Behind the scenes of Attractions
GARDENING FOR WILDLIFE
by Mark Pethullis, Gardener at Beningbrough Hall, Gallery and Gardens.
The colourful world of Jonathan Moseley
International Floral Designer, Jonathan Moseley told us what flowers mean to him.
England's oldest tourist attraction reopens
by Jay Stelling of Mother Shipton's Cave and Petrifying Well Storms, flooding, and a global pandemic. It’s safe to...
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