Friars Rest: About York

York Minster – www.yorkminster.org

The largest Gothic Cathedral north of the alps, and one of the finest in Europe.

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National Railway Museum – www.nrm.org.uk

This is a large and very interesting visit for the family and is the largest railway museum in the world

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Jorvik Viking Centre – www.vikingjovik.com

Is unique, once experienced – never forgotten. It is built on the exact site of a huge archaeological dig

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York Castle Museum – www.yorkcastlemuseum.org.uk

York Art Gallery – www.yorkartgallery.org.uk

Bar Convent – www.bar-convent.org.uk

York Dungeons – www.thedungeons.com
Try this quite scary and only a short walk from the Guest House

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Barley Hall – www.barleyhall.org.uk

Air Museum – www.yorkshireairmuseum.co.uk

Yorkshire Museum – www.yorkshiremuseum.org.uk

Murton Park – www.murtonpark.co.uk

Merchant Adventures Hall – www.theyorkcompany.co.uk

Attractions outside York

Castle Howard – www.castlehoward.co.uk

Howardion Hills, fifteen miles northeast of the famous city of York. Built in 1699, Castle Howard is, today, still the private home of the Howard family. As a major tourist attraction the house receives hundred of thousands of visitors annually from all over the world, who come to enjoy a variety of delights.

Eden Camp – www.edencamp.co.uk

A visit to our unique Museum at EDEN CAMP will transport to you back in time to wartime Britain. This is only about 45 minutes away by car and you will experience the sights, sounds, even the smells of those dangerous years.
This is no ordinary Museum – Not another Military Museum.

Whitby – www.whitbytowncouncil.gov.uk

Whitby is a lovely sea side town to visit with old habour and pier St. Mary, one of the finest examples of Anglo Saxon churches in the country, and whose churchyard gave Bram Stoker the inspiration to write his world famous book, Dracula.