Leeds Bradford Airport 50 min
The Mount (6 min) York S Chocolate Story (8 min.) tour exploring the history of chocolate and the city s confectioners with cafe and shop. York Art Gallery (6 min.) gallery featuring paintings & decorative arts from the 1400s to the present in an 1870s building. National Railway Museum York (11 min.) railway history and artefacts with 300 vehicles including steam world record holder the mallard. Clifford S Tower (5 min.) 13th-century castle keep built on a grass mound formerly used as a prison and royal mint. Nunnery Lane Car Park (11 min) The York Dungeon (5 min.) a high tech ghost house attraction with costumed characters and state-of-the-art scares. Yorkshire Museum (8 min.) five galleries showcase archaeological treasures plus displays of rare animals birds and fossils. Jorvik Viking Centre (6 min.) a fully reconstructed viking village complete with the sights and smells and an adjoining museum. National Trust - Treasurer S House (9 min.) well-preserved house filled with 17th- and 18th-century furniture ceramics textiles and paintings. Holgate Hill (1 min) York Castle Museum (5 min.) remnants of a stonework enclosure around a rectangular fortification erected in 71 ce. Barley Hall (9 min.) restored former priory dating from 14th century with high-ceilinged great hall and exposed timbers. National Railway Museum (Main Entrance) (13 min) Museum Gardens (7 min.) large gardens surrounding yorkshire museum with mature trees roman ruins and medieval abbey. Fairfax House (5 min.) imposing georgian townhouse museum with significant collections of furniture paintings and clocks. Merchant Adventurers Hall (6 min.) 1350s building where merchants congregated with a chapel & an alms house (open daily in summer). York Cold War Bunker (8 min.) fallout monitoring centre in case of nuclear war until 1990s now open and run by english heritage. |