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Located on the outskirts of Malton, North Yorkshire, Eden Camp is a multi-award winning History Museum housed within the grounds of an original World War Two prisoner of war camp. It was developed into a museum to stand as a tribute to all people, civilian and military, who endured hardship throughout World War Two.
Eden Camp has people of all ages visiting from around the world to see the story of World War Two re-created using sights, sounds, smells and moving figures to create a unique atmosphere that makes it feel like you travelled back in time to wartime Britain.
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Flamingo Land is a theme park and resort located in Malton, North Yorkshire. It attracts about 1.8 million visitors per year and is also the 12th most visited theme park in Europe. Flamingo Land houses exotic birds, rare fish, reptiles and mammals. Some animals include camels, zebras, guanaco, hippopotamus, giraffe, meerkats, Baboons, Chimpanzee, lions, rhinoceros, tigers, sea lions, Parrots, and peacocks.
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Castle Howard is a stately home in North Yorkshire, England, 15 miles north of York and just a few miles away from Habton House Farm. It is one of the grandest private residences in Britain, most of it was built between 1699 and 1712 for the 3rd Earl of Carlisle, to a design by Sir John V anbrugh.
Castle Howard has been used as Brideshead in both the 1981 television series and 2008 film adaptations of Evelyn Waugh’s novel Brideshead Revisited.
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Malton is a historic market town. The town stands on the site of a former Roman settlement. Malton is the local commercial centre. In the town centre there are lots of small traditional independent shops.
Attractions in modern Malton include the signposted remains of the Roman fort at ‘Orchard Fields’, the Malton Museum and Malton Priory a Gilbertine priory.
Malton is known in connection with Charles Dickens who made regular visits to the area to see his friend Charles Smithson, he also wrote the famous novel A Christmas Carol while staying in Malton. There have been recent revivals of Dickens-related festivals.
Distance from Habton House: Within 10 miles
Pay a visit to the well known station, Goathland, home of Aidensfield in ‘Heartbeat’ and as the bewitching ‘Hogsmeade’ in the first Harry Potter film! Stay on for the full 18 mile trip to Whitby and enjoy fish and chips by the seaside!
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Malton Museum is Ryedale’s major archaeological museum, located in the heart of Malton’s market place and housed in an 18th Century butter market. In addition to the renowned Roman collections the museum is also home to a social history collection relating to trade, local government, racing and other aspects of the town and surrounding area
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Pickering is an ancient market town and civil parish in the Ryedale district of the county of North Yorkshire, England, on the border of the North York Moors National Park. It sits at the foot of the Moors, overlooking the Vale of Pickering to the south. According to legend the town was founded by a certain King Peredurus around 270BC; however the town as it exists today is of medieval origin.
The tourist venues of Pickering Castle, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway and Beck Isle Museum have made Pickering popular with visitors in recent years. Nearby places include Malton, Norton, Scarborough.
Distance from Habton House: Within 10 miles
Set in the attractive market town of Pickering. You can discover how this splendid 13th century castle was used throughout the centuries. This tourist attraction in the heart of the North York Moors National Park has been a royal hunting lodge, holiday home and a stud farm by a succession of medieval kings.
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Nunnigton Hall is a beautiful Yorkshire manor house, on the quiet banks of the River Rye. Explore the period rooms whilst hearing the Hall’s many tales and discover one of the world’s finest collections of miniature rooms in the attic. Famed for its picturesque location, organic walled garden with spring-flowering meadows, flamboyant resident peacocks and a changing programme of exclusive and high profile art and photography exhibitions, Nunnington Hall offers something for everyone to enjoy.
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Scampston Hall, North Yorkshire, Walled Garden is a stunningly beautiful, contemporary garden, quite unlike any other. Designed by the Dutch plantsman, Piet Oudolf, and featuring modern, perennial meadow planting, alongside more traditional areas, the garden has been open to the public as a tourist attraction since 2004. It is already one of Yorkshire’s finest gardens to visit and it has been received with great acclaim.
Distance from Habton House: Within 10 miles
Yorkshire Lavender Farm is a Triple Award-Winning attraction. Lavender Gardens and Specialist Plant Nursery set in a spectacular hillside farm of nearly 60 acres, within the Howardian Hills Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
They have hundreds of different lavender and herbs for sale, a Tea Room/Restaurant and a Gift Shop.
Along with the Lavender Gardens there is also a deer park and sculpture park which offer amazing panoramic views over the Vale of York.
Distance from Habton House: Within 15 miles
Dalby Forest is situated on the southern slopes of the North York Moors National Park. Although comprising mostly pines and spruces there are many broadleaf trees such as oak, beech, ash, alder and hazel both in the valleys and on the ‘Riggs’.
There are several car parks, hiking trails and mountain bike trails, a ‘forest drive’ throughout the forest and a Go Ape centre. A toll is charged to enter the forest by car, although parking is free. The main visitor centre has a café and shop, which is adjacent to a selection of other businesses including a bike shop and various craft workshops.
Distance from Habton House: Within 15 miles
Rievaulx Abbey is a former Cistercian abbey headed by the Abbot of Rievaulx. It is located in the village of Rievaulx, near Helmsley.
Rievaulx Abbey was founded in 1132 by twelve monks from Clairvaux Abbey as a mission centre for the colonisation of the north of England and Scotland. It was the first Cistercian abbey in the north. With time it became one of the great Cistercian abbeys of Yorkshire, second only to Fountains Abbey in fame
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The Ryedale Folk Museum is located in Hutton-le-Hole is an attractive village with lots of green grass and a stream running through its centre.
The Ryedale Folk Museum shows the history of how the people of North Yorkshire have lived from the earliest inhabitants up to around the 1950′s. There are thirteen historic buildings, set in three acres, many of which have been transported from their original locations, reconstructed, and faithfully restored to how they would have been decorated and furnished at the time they were originally built.
Distance from Habton House: Within 15 miles
Helmsley is a picturesque market town at the head of the Vale of Pickering. Local attractions include Helmsley Castle, an open air swimming pool which is open during the summer months.
Distance from Habton House: Within 15 miles
Duncombe Park is one of Yorkshire’s foremost historic houses and estates, and home to the Duncombe family. The house has been closed to the public from 2011, but the spectacular gardens remain open to visitors, as does the surrounding parkland, a beautiful and historic landscape on the edge of the picturesque market town of Helmsley.
