The afternoon of Wednesday 3rd August will be free for delegates to explore York and its surroundings. We are offering an afternoon trip to Castle Howard, a stately home in North Yorkshire, 15 miles (24 km) north of York. One of the grandest private residences in Britain, most of it was built between 1699 and 1712, and has been the home of part of the Howard family for more than 300 years. It is one of England’s finest historic houses, with dramatic interiors and extensive and diverse gardens. Castle Howard is familiar to television and movie audiences as the fictional Brideshead, both in Granada Television's 1981 adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited and a two-hour 2008 remake for cinema, as well as being the exterior set for Lady Lyndon's estate in Stanley Kubrick's 1975 movie Barry Lyndon
More information on what Castle Howard has to offer can be found at http://www.castlehoward.co.uk/
The cost of the trip is £15 per person, and includes coach travel to and from the university, and entrance fee to the extensive house and grounds. The excursion will leave the Exhibition Centre at the University at approximately 2pm and return by 7pm.
A limited number of places are available for this trip.
