The hotel is within walking distance of the city’s main attractions: York Minster; the Castle Museum; York Races; the National Railway Museum; the medieval city walls, the Jorvik Viking Centre; and Shambles. At the centre of Yorkshire, York is an ideal centre for visiting the county’s many attractions: Castle Howard (of “Brideshead Revisited” fame); the Brontë country; James Herriot’s dales and moors; and the rugged coast are all within an hour’s drive.