Day trips
Hull
A magnificent Minster, designer outlet shopping and an Elizabethan mansion with an orangery and landscaped gardens.
Leeds
A wild and rugged romantic landscape that’s great for inspiration and a vast Capability Brown landscape.
Leicester
Europe’s largest man-made lake, a steam railway running scheduled services along eight miles of track on weekends and weekdays during the summer and the site of Richard III’s defeat.
Lincoln
An Elizabethan mansion house and grounds, the imposing home of Darcy’s daunting dowager aunt, wildlife, walks and a whole host of eco-challenges.
Liverpool
Blackholes, galaxies and supernova.
London
Spectacular views over the whole of London and the 60 acre Royal Horticultural Society gardens at Wisley.
Manchester
Picture-postcard prettiness, culture at its most civilised and medieval, Tudor and Victorian architecture all packed into one beautiful Grade I listed building.