Sat 10 Oct 2026
Guided walk: Secret Life of the Forest
A 9-mile linear walk through Broxa Forest with Brian Walker from Channel 5's Secret Life of the Forest
12 Nov 2026 – 3 Jan 2027
Photo: Raymond Knapman , CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
A Dickens of a Christmas at Castle Howard
The great house dressed for Christmas on a different theme each year, with a giant tree in the Great Hall.
Castle Howard's Christmas dressing has become one of the big winter draws in the north, with every state room decorated to a story or theme, a tree that reaches the dome, festive food and a light trail in the grounds on selected evenings. Book timed tickets well ahead for weekends.
Other events coming up
10–11 Oct 2026
Back to the 1940s at Eden Camp
Wartime weekend with re-enactors, vehicles and 1940s music at the prisoner-of-war camp museum
10–11 Oct 2026
Sir Nigel Gresley static viewing days at Grosmont
See the record-breaking A4 locomotive up close in the engine shed, with short cab talks