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York, Historic Homes
and the North Yorkshire

Moors Railway

Journey through time as we combine visits to some of Yorkshire’s
great historic homes with a spectacular steam train journey.

5 Days from £825
Here’s what you’ll get up to...
Day 1 Make your own way to our hotel in York interiors and magnificent stucco ceilings
where you will meet our experienced Tour make it a masterpiece of Georgian design and
Manager. Enjoy a relaxing evening with dinner architecture. Set in the heart of York, Fairfax
and a drink served in the hotel's restaurant. D House reveals the domestic interiors in which
Day 2 York, Fairfax House and Nunnington these Georgians would have walked, the tastes
Hall After breakfast, we travel by coach into the and fashions of the day for architecture, interior
centre of York and embark on an introductory decoration, food and furnishings, as well as
walking tour with a local guide. Our tour will the customs and habits of York’s wealthy
end at Fairfax House, one of England’s finest gentry and aristocracy. A beautiful collection of
Georgian townhouses. We have included furniture brings the house to life and creates a
entrance to this remarkable house, which special feeling of warmth. It evokes a life once
will transport you to the glory days of city lived in comfort and grandeur, vividly recalling
living in 18th-century York. Fairfax House was a lost world of townhouse living in the 1760s.
originally the winter home of Viscount Fairfax After our visit here, we will then board our
and his daughter Anne. The richly decorated coach and travel to Nunnington Hall for an

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