Family Activities
What to do on site?
Which English Heritage properties are nearby?
What other family-based activities and places of interest are nearby?
Nature Watch
For grown-ups and children, children can borrow binoculars from the site to make the most of the views - we call this 'Santa-spotting' in December.
Kirkham Priory
Distance: 13.5 miles
The riverside ruins of an Augustinian priory, picturesquely set in the beautiful Derwent valley near the Yorkshire Wolds. 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 the semi-subterranean bunker which would have monitored nuclear explosions and fallout in the Yorkshire region.DIG
Distance: 1.5 miles
JORVIK'S sister attraction, DIG - An Archaeological Adventure opened last year. This authentic, interactive exhibition gives visitors the chance to dig their way through centuries of Roman, Medieval, Viking and Victorian history.Useful tools
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