If you’d like to venture in and around Richmond we have found the following website to be the most informative. If you chance upon other useful websites for people new to the area, please email us at enquiries@dowerhouse-hotel.co.uk thankyou!

Annual events in Knaresborough include the Knaresborough Bed Race - which takes place this year on Saturday June 9th and has an Olympic theme.

The Dower House offers a fabulous vantage point for this hilarious race why not join us to watch? Get here early though as the race goes right past our door!

More Knaresborough news at www.knaresborough.co.uk

Places to visit just short distnace away include:-

• Mother Shipton's Cave & The Petrifying Well
• Guided Tours of the town
• Ghost Walks
• Knaresborough Castle and Museum, Castle Yard
• The Chapel of Our Lady of the Crag and St Robert's Cave
• Boats on the River
• Henshaws Arts & Crafts Centre
• Knaresborough Numeracy Trails

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