Visit North Lees Places

Welcome to Visit North Lees Places
The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in North Lees

  

North Lees Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about North Lees

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You can visit North Lees places with Walkfo North Lees to hear history at North Lees’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo North Lees has 29 places to visit in our interactive North Lees map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout North Lees, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at North Lees places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to North Lees & the surrounding areas.

“Curated content for millions of locations across the UK, with 29 audio facts unique to North Lees places in an interactive North Lees map you can explore.”

Walkfo: Visit North Lees Places Map
29 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo North Lees tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in North Lees

  

Best North Lees places to visit

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North Lees has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied North Lees’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo North Lees’s information audio spots:

Norton Conyers House Norton Conyers House is a grade II* listed late medieval manor house. The frontage has distinctive Dutch-style gables and is thought to be the inspiration for Charlotte Brontë’s novel Jane Eyre. The house is currently undergoing restoration but is open for occasional guided tours.

Lightwater Valley Lightwater Valley is a theme park in North Stainley, North Yorkshire, England. The park was home to Europe’s longest roller coaster, The Ultimate. The Brighton Pier Group purchased the park for £5 million in 2021.

Diocese of Ripon The Diocese of Ripon was part of the Province of York. It covered an area in western and northern Yorkshire as well as the south Teesdale area administered by County Durham. The diocese was also served by a suffragan Bishop of Knaresborough and was divided into two archdeaconries, those of Richmond and Leeds.

St John’s Almshouses, Ripon St John’s Almshouses (formally the Hospital of St John the Baptist) are Grade II listed in Ripon, North Yorkshire, England.

River Laver The River Laver is a tributary of the River Skell in North Yorkshire. The name is of Brittonic origin, from labaro, meaning “talkative”, i.e. a babbling brook. The Afon Llafar in Wales shares the same name.

Raptor Attack Raptor Attack was an enclosed steel roller coaster at the Lightwater Valley theme park in North Yorkshire. It was the world’s first underground subterranean rollercoaster, opening in 1987.

The Ultimate (roller coaster) The Ultimate is a steel roller coaster at Lightwater Valley theme park, near the small cathedral city of Ripon, in North Yorkshire, England. In 1991, it took the record of longest roller coaster in the world from The Beast at Kings Island.

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