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Pickering Castle visitor guide: Opening hours, tickets, and how to plan your visit

Pickering Castle is a well-preserved Norman motte-and-bailey castle on the edge of Pickering market town in North Yorkshire, managed by English Heritage as a paid visitor attraction. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport, parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips for planning your visit.…

Barnard Castle in County Durham, North-East England.

Barnard Castle visitor guide: Opening hours, tickets, and how to plan your visit

Barnard Castle is a ruined medieval fortress set on a rocky promontory above the River Tees in the market town of Barnard Castle, County Durham, managed by English Heritage. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport, parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips for planning…

Middleham Castle visitor guide: Opening hours, tickets, and how to plan your visit

Middleham Castle is a ruined medieval castle in the market town of Middleham in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire, managed by English Heritage as a paid visitor attraction. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport, parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips for planning your visit. This…

Wroxeter Roman City visitor guide: Opening hours, tickets, and how to plan your visit

Wroxeter Roman City (ancient name: Viroconium Cornoviorum) is the site of the fourth-largest city in Roman Britain, near Shrewsbury in Shropshire, managed by English Heritage. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport, parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips. This guide was last updated in…

Goodrich Castle visitor guide: Opening hours, tickets, and how to plan your visit

Goodrich Castle is a ruined medieval castle near Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire, managed by English Heritage as a paid visitor attraction. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport, parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips for planning your visit. This guide was last updated in March…

Furness Abbey in Cumbria, North-West England.

Furness Abbey visitor guide: Opening hours, tickets, and how to plan your visit

Furness Abbey is a ruined Cistercian monastery in a wooded valley on the north-eastern edge of Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, managed by English Heritage. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport, parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips for planning your visit. This guide was last…

Aston Hall, Birmingham: Ticket prices, hours and tips – plan your visit

Aston Hall is a highly preserved 17th-century Jacobean mansion situated within the public grounds of Aston Park in Birmingham. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport, parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips. This comprehensive visitor guide was updated in May 2026 to confirm that…

Sarehole Mill in Birmingham, West Midlands.

Sarehole Mill, Birmingham: Ticket prices, hours and tips – plan your visit

Sarehole Mill is a historic, 250-year-old working watermill and museum situated on Cole Bank Road in the Hall Green area of Birmingham. This guide covers opening hours, ticket prices, transport, parking, accessibility, and practical visitor tips. This comprehensive visitor guide was updated in May 2026.…

Anne Hathaway's Cottage in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire.

Anne Hathaway’s Cottage, Stratford-upon-Avon: Ticket prices, hours and tips – plan your visit

Anne Hathaway's Cottage is a 15th-century thatched farmhouse at 22 Cottage Lane, Shottery, Stratford-upon-Avon. It was the childhood home of Anne Hathaway, who married William Shakespeare in 1582. Managed by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, it is open to the public as a heritage attraction with…

Seals on the journey to Staffa in Scotland.

The best places to see seals in Scotland: Your complete guide

Scotland has two resident seal species: the grey seal and the smaller harbour seal (also called the common seal). Combined, they account for roughly 40 per cent of the world's grey seal population and around 30 per cent of Europe's harbour seals. In short, Scotland…