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How Stean Gorge
Family Attractions
Pateley Bridge
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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
Attractions
Ripon
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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
Family Attractions
Knaresborough
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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
Garden Attractions
Ripon
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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.

Stockeld Playhive

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. 

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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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Brimham Rocks
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Brimham Rocks

Harrogate Tipple Gin School
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Harrogate Tipple Gin School

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Markenfield Hall
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Markenfield Hall

Stillingfleet Lodge Gardens
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Stillingfleet Lodge Gardens

Stockeld Park
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Stockeld Park

Nidderdale Museum
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Nidderdale Museum

Yorkshire Heart
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Yorkshire Heart

Kitchen Garden, at Rudding...
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Kitchen Garden, at Rudding...

Bewerley Grange Chapel
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Bewerley Grange Chapel

Ripon Walled Garden
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Ripon Walled Garden

Ripon Cathedral
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Ripon Cathedral

Ripon Spa Gardens
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Ripon Spa Gardens

Skipton Castle
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Skipton Castle

Knaresborough Castle & Museum
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Knaresborough Castle & Museum

Birchfield Family Dairies
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Birchfield Family Dairies

Aldborough Roman Settlement
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Aldborough Roman Settlement

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Behind the scenes of  Attractions

GARDENING FOR WILDLIFE
Garden Attractions
13th Jul 2021
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GARDENING FOR WILDLIFE

by Mark Pethullis, Gardener at Beningbrough Hall, Gallery and Gardens.

The colourful world of Jonathan Moseley
Garden Attractions
21st Jul 2021
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The colourful world of Jonathan Moseley

International Floral Designer, Jonathan Moseley told us what flowers mean to him. 

England's oldest tourist attraction reopens
Family Attractions
25th Jun 2020
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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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