Awe-inspiring attraction in Harrogate district in UK's top five

The National Trust is to start to reopen some of Britain’s best loved public gardens from next week by advance booking only but, so far, none are scheduled to reopen in our district.

That means Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal remains closed.

But the World Heritage Site does still feature highly in a new list of popular attractions,

To work out each site's popularity, Sellhousefast.uk took more than 200 sites listed on the National Trust website.

The number of hashtags for each site, either by name or name followed by the words national trust, were then individually counted.

The top five most popular National Trust locations on Instagram

1. Tatton Park: Knutsford, Cheshire

2. Stourhead: Mere, Wiltshire

3. Dunham Massey: Altrincham, Greater Manchester

4. Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal: Ripon, North Yorkshire

5. Lyme: Stockport, Cheshire

As lockdown eases, the National Trust is introducing advanced booking at a limited number of its sites which are set to reopen from June 3.

To help manage visitor numbers and maintain safe, social distancing, all visitors must book in advance, even National Trust members.

The National Trust warns that anyone who doesn't book, will be turned away.

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The only National Trust gardens and parklands to be reopened in the north are:

Beningbrough Hall, North Yorkshire

Gibside, Tyne & Wear

Dunham Massey, Greater Manchester

Lyme, Cheshire

Quarry Bank, Cheshire

Wallington, Northumberland

The National Trust has also opened more than 200 coast and countryside car parks in England and Northern Ireland.

But it says all National Trust places in Wales have to remain closed due to government guidance

All its houses remain closed for now.

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