This interesting museum is dedicated to the 13th and 18th Regiment of the Queen’s Royal Hussars. Located in Barnsley where the army regiment is based, it is filled with interesting artefacts, photographs and documents, as well as medals and...

Barnsley Metrodome has a fantastic pool complex offering a total water experience, including the space adventure, a fabulous new water theme park. The Center can offer swimming lessons and you can privately book a pool. The pool has a wave...

The Cooper Gallery is one of the great artistic and cultural centre points of Barnsley in South Yorkshire. Containing a fine collection of paintings and sculptures from artists who have lived in and been inspired by the local region,...

Elescar Heritage Centre has been established in order to preserve and protect the rich history of this region, and to bring together the great body of information that exists in regard to the area. The centre has many fine...

This would once have been one of the most important monasteries in South Yorkshire - a masterpiece of monastic design, standing close to the centre of Barnsley. Built in the 13th Century as a Cluniac monastery with an unusually...

The Victoria Jubilee Museum houses a selection of exhibits that were originally compiled by the founder of the institution in 1884. Reverend Charles Tiplady Pratt, who was vicar of the parish, encouraged young people to become interested in natural...

Worsborough Mill is a beautiful 17th Century working water powered corn mill, at the heart of over two hundred acres of magnificent country park. The mill is open to the public to see the machinery in action, and even...

Once the home to the Spencer-Stanhope family this magnificent 17th Century country house is now a museum showing fine collections of furniture, paintings, glassware and pottery in period settings. For those interested in military history, ‘Charge’, the regimental museum of...

With new animals being born throughout the year there is always something new to see at this award winning Open Farm. Buy a bag of feed and enjoy feeding the wandering goats. Alternatively, enter the sheds, and see sheep, pigs,...

The hamlet of Cove near Cockburnspath has had a natural fishing harbour since the 17th Century. Visitors today see the improved harbour which was built in 1831, together with a cluster of picturesque listed buildings, owned and maintained...

Once an impressive fortress on the headland, the ruined Dunbar Castle dates back to the 12th Century. For five months in 1338, Black Agnes (the Countess of Dunbar) successfully defended the castle against a seige by the English, under...

Established in 1985 at Bretton Hall College, this institution is intended to provide a documentary trace of development for art and education in the United Kingdom. The collection holds over a hundred different collections of children's and students' work...

Opened on the 1st August 1985, Pugneys Country Park, which stands on the outskirts of Wakefield is one of the districts most popular tourist destinations, attracting visitors from far and wide. The park, formerly an open cast site, now...

Only the remains are left of this, what would have been one of the most impressive castles of the 13th Century. A motte and bailey castle of some note, the site has been restored to an extent and it...

As an area of outstanding natural beauty Anglers Country Park and Heronry at Wintersett, near Wakefield, is the ideal place to get close to nature. Dominated by a huge lake the park includes woodlands, wetland, rolling open spaces and encompasses...

Step aboard Yorkshire's Great Little Steam Trains and take an enchanting 8 mile journey of discovery through some spectacular south Pennine scenery, near Huddersfield. Your trip starts at Clayton West Station with its cafe, picnic site and free car...

Surrounded by some 500 acres of glorious open countryside, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, established in 1977, has today earned a reputation as an international centre for modern and contemporary art, which delights thousands of visitors every year. Situated conveniently...