This post is based on my original entry on Visiting Houses and Gardens: http://visitinghousesandgardens.wordpress.com As autumn creeps upon us and the chill starts to bite, many country houses have started to close their doors, preparing for a good deal of housekeeping during the winter months. If you followed the BBC’s recent documentary on the National [...]
Meet Pip Dodd from the National Army Museum
1. Introduce yourself and tell us how you came about to be involved in the museum industry? My name is Pip Dodd and I am a curator in the Department of Fine and Decorative Art, and one of the curatorial team working on the War Horse exhibition. I’ve always loved museums and art galleries, and [...]
Meet Wendy Freer from Ashby Museum
1. Introduce yourself and tell us how you came about to be involved in the museum industry? My name is Wendy Freer and I am a social historian. I also used to be a full time museum professional, working for Leicestershire Museum Service in the 1990s. As I live in Ashby it seemed a natural [...]
Meet Emma Gill from The Donkey Sanctuary
1. Introduce yourself and tell us how you came about to be involved in the visitor attraction industry? Hi, I’m Emma Gill and I work as a PR Officer at international animal welfare charity The Donkey Sanctuary, spreading the word about how amazing donkeys are and encouraging people to come and visit. Before I was [...]
Wentworth Castle Gardens, Barnsley’s Sleeping Beauty
This is a guest post by Claire Herring, Director at Wentworth Castle Garden Forget everything you ever thought you knew about Barnsley – Wentworth Castle Gardens has everything for a great day out. Just a mile off the M1, we offer tranquil gardens and miles of waymarked walks around our beautiful deer park. If you like something [...]
The Historic Houses Association
The success of television programmes such as “Country House Rescue”, “Restoration Man” and “Grand Designs” reflect our fascination with properties. The history of the English country house runs parallel with the history of our country and since the 1950s many of these properties have been open to the public, making for a fantastic day out. [...]
Nerdy Days Out
It’s hard to define what makes a good nerdy day trip but you’ll be sure to be spoilt for choice if you live in the UK. Ben Goldacre has asked his blog visitors to crowd source a Google Map of geeky adventures. We’ve pulled all the ones into England onto the table below and linked [...]
Bad Days Out or Eccentric Fun?
Following the same guise as The Idler’s Crap Towns, a new book highlights some of Britain’s most eccentric tourist attractions. The Sun featured nine in an article today – we’ve included these along with the samples on the book’s website and links to their profiles on DayTripFinder. One of our aims for the site is to [...]
Top 20 Paid Attractions in England
Yesterday we published the top 20 free attractions in England – today it’s the top paid ones. Perhaps mirroring the uncertain economic situation paid attractions reported a -1% drop in visitors comparing 2009 and 2010.
Top 20 Free Attractions in England
Each year Visit England publish their annual attractions report recording visitor numbers and the top attractions. We’ve taken their list of the top 20 free attractions and put them in the table below with links to their DayTripFinder listings. Free attractions experienced a 6% visitor increase in 2010 from 2009. Just click the table headings to [...]
