English Heritage holiday cottages

At English Heritage, we want to offer you the most exciting and engaging ways to explore England’s past. Whether you find inspiration in the evocative settings, little-known details or colourful characters of history, staying at one of our sites will make for a unique experience. As other visitors leave, you can discover a new side as you explore all by yourself. Soak up the unique atmosphere of the sun setting on hundreds of years of history and, come morning, see it light up some of the most iconic sights in the country.

Focus on North Yorkshire

When you start to explore Yorkshire, it's not hard to see why it is referred to by locals as “God’s Own County”. In addition to its outstanding natural beauty; wild moorland, dales and vales, there are picturesque villages, towns and the spectacular city of York founded by the Romans to discover.

North Yorkshire allows you to experience the great outdoors first hand. Choose from a vast array of walks and cycling routes, for the more adventurous: caving, climbing or experience the countryside from the air in a glider. However, just visiting the country houses, castle and monastic sites whose history span more than a millennia you will come in to contact with the breath-taking Yorkshire countryside. 

English Heritage care for eight ecclesiastical sites in North Yorkshire alone including Rievaulx Abbey; one of England's most powerful Cistercian monasteries and Mount Grace Priory; a medieval Carthusian Charterhouse on the edge of the wild, heather-strewn North York Moors National Park. With holiday cottages located at both of these sites, guest can explore the ruins of these majestic sites and experience why they were tranquil places for reflection.