Castle Howard

Castle Howard is outside the National Park in the Howardian Hills but too close and too magnificent to leave out. Vanbrugh's baroque palace of 1699 has a great dome, painted ceilings, a long gallery and a chapel, and the grounds have lakes, temples, a mausoleum, an adventure playground and a walled garden. Famous as Brideshead in both screen versions of Brideshead Revisited. Allow most of a day.