This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

The Best Attractions In South Yorkshire

x
South Yorkshire is a metropolitan county in England. It is the southernmost county in the Yorkshire and the Humber region and had a population of 1.34 million in 2011. It has an area of 1,552 square kilometres and consists of four metropolitan boroughs, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham and Sheffield. South Yorkshire was created on 1 April 1974 as a result of the Local Government Act 1972.Its largest settlement is Sheffield. Lying on the east side of the Pennines, South Yorkshire is landlocked, and borders Derbyshire to the west and south-west, West Yorkshire to the north-west, North Yorkshire to the north, the East Riding of Yorkshire to the north-east, ...
Continue reading...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Filter Attractions:

The Best Attractions In South Yorkshire

  • 1. Yorkshire Wildlife Park Doncaster
    The Yorkshire Wildlife Park, commonly referred to as YWP, is a wildlife park located in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, in England. It was built on the site of Brockholes Farm Visitor Centre, which closed to the public in November 2008. The park prides itself on being 'The UK's Number 1 Walkthrough Wildlife Adventure'.Yorkshire Wildlife Park is a member of the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums and the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria .
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 4. The Vulcan Experience Doncaster
    This is a year-by-year list of aviation accidents that have occurred at airshows worldwide in the 20th century.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 6. The Botanical Gardens Sheffield
    Botanical gardens in the United Kingdom is a link page for any botanical garden, arboretum or pinetum in the United Kingdom.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 7. RSPB Old Moor Barnsley
    RSPB Old Moor is a 250-acre wetlands nature reserve in Barnsley, England run by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds . It lies on the junction of the north/south and east/west routes of the Trans Pennine Trail. The centre was opened by Barnsley Metropolitan Borough Council in 1998 as part of the regeneration of the Dearne Valley and then developed further with the help of a lottery grant in 2002.[1] The RSPB took over management of the site in 2003 and developed the site further with funding from various sources including the Heritage Lottery Fund, Yorkshire Forward and WREN. The area around RSPB Old Moor contains several other wildlife areas including Wombwell Ings and Gypsy Marsh, , Broomhill Flash and Doveside Nature Reserve.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 9. Wentworth Garden Centre Rotherham
    Wentworth Woodhouse is a Grade I listed country house in the village of Wentworth, in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham in South Yorkshire, England. It is currently owned by the Wentworth Woodhouse Preservation Trust. Considered to be the largest private residence in the United Kingdom , it has an east front of 606 feet ; the longest country house façade in Europe. The house has more than 300 rooms, although the precise number is unclear, with 250,000 square feet of floorspace . It covers an area of more than 2.5 acres , and is surrounded by a 180-acre park, and an estate of 15,000 acres . The original Jacobean house was rebuilt by Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham , and vastly expanded by his son, the 2nd Marquess, who was twice Prime Minister, and who established W...
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 10. Brodsworth Hall and Gardens Doncaster
    Brodsworth Hall, near Brodsworth, 5 miles north-west of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, is one of the most complete surviving examples of a Victorian country house in England. It is virtually unchanged since the 1860s. It was designed in the Italianate style by the obscure London architect, Philip Wilkinson, then 26 years old. He was commissioned by Charles Sabine Augustus Thellusson, who inherited the estate in 1859. It is a Grade I listed building.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 12. Weston Park Sheffield
    Weston Park Hospital is a health facility specialising in the treatment of cancer in Broomhill, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It is managed by the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
  • 13. Sheffield Winter Garden Sheffield
    Sheffield Winter Garden in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire is one of the largest temperate glasshouses to be built in the UK during the last hundred years, and the largest urban glasshouse anywhere in Europe. It is home to more than 2,000 plants from all around the world. It was officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 22 May 2003. Part of the £120 million Heart of the City regeneration project that has created the Peace Gardens and the £15 million Millennium Galleries, the Winter Garden was designed by Pringle Richards Sharratt Architects and Buro Happold and is some 70 metres long and 21 metres high. The building has background frost protection to a minimum of 4 degrees Celsius and it is one of the largest Glued Laminated Timber or Glulam buildings in the UK . The wood used ...
    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

South Yorkshire Videos

Shares

x

Places in South Yorkshire

x

Regions in South Yorkshire

x

Near By Places

Menu