Abbeys, Castles, Stately Homes, and other historical buildings

• Aldborough Roman Site (English Heritage) at Boroughbridge, between Ripon and York
• Bolton Abbey, near Skipton
• Bolton Castle, near Leyburn
• Castle Howard, York
• Easby Abbey, Richmond
• Fairfax House, York
• Fountain's Abbey (and Studley Royal), near Ripon
• Gisborough Priory, Guisborough
• Harewood House stately Home, between Leeds and Harrogate
• Helmsley Castle, Helmsley
• Kirkham Priory, Whitwell on the Hill. Nr Malton
• Middleham Castle, Middleham near Leyburn
• Mount Grace Priory, Staddlebridge near Northallerton
• Newby Hall, near Ripon
• Pickering Castle, Pickering
• Richmond Castle, Richmond
• Rievaulx Abbey, near Helmsley
• Ripley Castle, Ripley, near Harrogate
• Ripon Cathedral, Ripon
• Scarborough Castle, Scarborough
• Sewerby Hall and Gardens, near Bridlington
• Sion Hill Hall, Kirby Wiske, near Thirsk, between Northallerton and Ripon
• Skipton Castle, Skipton
• Spofforth Castle, Spofforth, near Harrogate
• Whitby Abbey, Whitby
• York Minster, York

Museums and places of interest

• Bronte Parsonage Museum, Haworth - I remember reading the sad headstones in the parsonage "garden"
• Captain Cook Schoolroom Museum, Great Ayton, near Guisborough
• Herriot Museum, Thirsk, origins of TV's "All creatures great and small" series
• Ilkley Toy Museum, Ilkley - dolls, dolls' houses, teddies, tin plate toys, lead figures and games
• Jorvik Viking Centre, York - ride through a (sometimes smelly) Viking-age settlement, AD975
• Keighley Bus Museum - over 50 buses, coaches, trolleybuses and anciliary vehicles 1924-1982
• Keighley & Worth Valley Railway - steam & heritage diesels, Keighley, Ingrow, Oakworth, Haworth, Oxenhope
• MAGNA science adventure centre, between Sheffield and Rotherham
• Mother Shipton's Cave and Petrifying Well, Knaresborough - and a nice walk by the river Nidd
• National Coal Mining Museum, between Wakefield and Huddersfield
• National Media Museum, Bradford
• National Railway Museum, York
• Museums of Law and Order, Ripon; Courthouse, Police and Prison, Workhouse
• Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds
• Staintondale Shire Horse Farm, Staitondale, signposted off the A171 Scarborough-Whitby
• Stumps Cross Caverns, on the B6265 between Pateley Bridge and Grassington
• Swaledale Museum, Reeth
• Thackray Museum, Leeds
• Wensleydale Creamery Visitor Centre, Gayle Lane, Hawes

Railways

• Embsay & Bolton Abbey Steam Railway, near Skipton - very friendly little railway.
• Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, Haworth - alight for Haworth Village and the Bronte Parsonage Museum
• North Yorkshire Moors Railway, Pickering - as featured in TV's "Heartbeat"
• Sette to Carlisle Railway, including the famous Ribblehead viaduct - fantastic views all along