Open all year round - 85 acres of beautiful woodland to explore. Children's activity & nature trails, picnic areas, children's play area and licensed Tearoom. Bird of Prey Centre has birds from around the world, 3 entertaining flying displays a day. Mammal Centre has Meerkat Island, Walkthrough Wallaby Wood, Rheas, Red Squirrel Lodge with a Guided Tour of the centre every day (Feb-Nov)
Many Special Events throughout the year (especially for children) see our website : www.thorpperrow.com

Elegant town house dating from medieval times
Fine 17th and 18th-century house in the heart of historic York Minster
The ghosts of a Roman legion reputedly march through the cellars
Four centuries of styles on display in this elegant interior
See a model ship made out of bones
Home to one of York's best-loved tea-rooms

Travel behind a genuine 1950s steam locomotive through beautiful Wensleydale.

Dramatically-sited remains of monastery with fascinating history.

Welcome to the first science centre museum in North Yorkshire. It has been modelled on the world famous Exploratorium in San Francisco. The Whitby Wizard contains the quirkiest collection of exciting and educational hands-on exhibits in the region, suitable for both adults and children.

Deep beneath Ingleborough Hill, in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, lies a hidden world which has been sculpted by nature over thousands of years.
Imagine a subterranean landscape, beautifully lit, with gushing streams and waterfalls, exotic cave formations, and a huge ice-age cavern adorned with thousands of stalactites.
This is White Scar Cave.

York Art Gallery combines a distinguished history of displaying fine paintings and ceramics with a modern-day welcome to all through a busy calendar of events.

York Castle Museum is one of Britain's leading museums of everyday life. It shows how people used to live by displaying thousands of household objects and by recreating rooms, shops, streets - and even prison cells.

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. In service between 1961 and 1991, the Bunker's control rooms display 'colourpsychology décor' together with original monitoring and communications equipment.

Transport yourself back to the dark and grizzly history of the Roman city of York. Live actors, shows and interactive special effects ensure that you face your fears head on in this unique experience. Everything that you see is based on real historical events from the Labyrinth of the Lost Roman Legion, to the chilling tale of highwayman Dick Turpin, torture and the plague.