Family Activities
What to do on site?
Which English Heritage properties are nearby?
Tourist Information
Medieval Makeovers
This summer children can try on colourful medieval costumes and learn about the medieval dress of lords and ladies, peasants and peddlers.
York Cold War Bunker
Distance: 2 miles
English Heritage’s most modern, most unusual and perhaps most spine-chilling site, ‘No.20 Group Royal Observer Corps HQ’ is a semi-subterranean bunker which would have monitored nuclear explosions and fallout in the Yorkshire region. A fascinating insight into modern history with a fully guided tour.
Kirkham Priory
Distance: 13.5 miles
The riverside ruins of an Augustinian priory, picturesquely set in the beautiful Derwent valley near the Yorkshire Wolds. Discover the secret park Kirkham played in World War Two.
Tourist Information
The nearest Tourist Information is located at the De Gray rooms opposite York Gallery, call 01904 646940.
For more information on things to see and do in the area please see www.visityork.org.
For more information about things to see and do in Yorkshire please see www.Yorkshire.com.
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