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Colours Uncovered at Harewood House this Spring
Harrogate
Harewood House, Leeds, West Yorkshire,...
22nd Mar 2024

Colours Uncovered at Harewood House this Spring

The vibrant pigments in a Renaissance Vivarini painting, the blush pink in Sèvres porcelain, and the muted natural pigments...

Easter Wonderland
Knaresborough
Mother Shipton's Cave, Prophecy House,...
23rd Mar 2024

Easter Wonderland

This Easter, EVERY BUNNY is invited to join us for an unforgettable Springtime adventure in our whimsical woodland WONDERLAND...

Canoeing Adventure along Ripon Canal
Ripon
Ripon Canal, Ripon, Ripon, North...
24th Mar 2024

Canoeing Adventure along Ripon Canal

Enjoy a 3 hours Canoeing Adventure along the historic Ripon Canal. Join us on an unforgettable canoeing adventure near...

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Royal Hall exterior with blue sky

Throughout the year groups such as Ripon Museums Trust and the Nidderdale Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) and many others hold events that allow you to get hands on and involved with the heritage of the area, and offer the opportunity to see treasures normally closed to the public.

Talks from authors, experts and those actively involved in the preservation and restoration of our heritage can offer fascinating insights from behind the scenes.

Hear the stories, experiences and motivations that shape their work and take the opportunity to ask questions and uncover little known secrets.

Heritage photo Turkish Baths

Heritage Open Days are an annual event at the beginning of September that allow access to a whole range of extraordinary properties that would normally be closed to the public.

Some of these sites are brought to life with re-enactments and costume volunteers to talk about the life and times of those who built them.

In Harrogate two of the most iconic buildings are open for touring, the Turkish Baths holds guided tour every Wednesday, and the Harrogate Royal Hall holds open days when the lovingly restored grandeur of the hall is open to the public.

Guided walks offer a unique historical perspective to the landscape providing a broader context to your walk.Try your hand at the skills that have shaped the Yorkshire landscape such as dry stone walling and find out why these amazing structures last so long.

Exploring the Abbey ruins at Fountains Abbey Studley Royal

As you travel round Nidderdale AONB, you will notice large outcrops of rock protruding from the ground often in unlikely shapes.

Join tours to find out about the process and elements that give this area its distinctive geology creating a raw and beautiful landscape.

The same landscapes hold great mineral wealth that man has mined and quarried for over 2000 years including lead and other metals, but also limestone which is still quarried in Nidderdale to this day.

Local enthusiasts offer tours of the abandoned facilities for the rare chance to see inside the industrial heritage of the area and learn more about the industries of times gone by.

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Colours Uncovered at Harewood...
22nd Mar 2024

Colours Uncovered at Harewood...

Easter Wonderland
23rd Mar 2024

Easter Wonderland

Canoeing Adventure along...
24th Mar 2024

Canoeing Adventure along...

Canoeing Adventure along the...
31st Mar 2024

Canoeing Adventure along the...

Harrogate Coin Fair - April...
19th Apr 2024

Harrogate Coin Fair - April...

Guided Walk at Nidd Gorge
25th Apr 2024

Guided Walk at Nidd Gorge

Guided Walk at Hackfall
2nd May 2024

Guided Walk at Hackfall

Tractorfest at Newby Hall
8th Jun 2024

Tractorfest at Newby Hall

Masham Steam Engine and Fair...
20th Jul 2024

Masham Steam Engine and Fair...

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