Best places: Heritage museums in England

Lawn tennis venue for annual Wimbledon Grand Slam championship, with museum, tours and restaurants.

Exhibits about WW2 Bomber Command, including a Lancaster bomber, plus flying events and taxy rides.

A heritage railway cutting through the dramatic scenery of the North York Moors National Park.

Narrow gauge railway, vintage vehicle demos, old buildings and exhibitions in a former chalk quarry.

Antiques and botanical gardens with 6,000 plants in Edwardian industrialist's grand country house.

👍👍 What a great museum. Its like a tardis as it doesn't look as big as it is from the outside. You're greeted by the jolly volunteers who obviously love 'working' there. They are quite happy to chat and explain things to you if you ask. You get a map with easy to follow pictures and numbers and there a...

Tours of a 19th-century underground wagonway for coal, later used as a WWII air-raid shelter.

One-time seat of the Kings of Northumbria, with audio-tours of the state rooms and live excavations.

Large Victorian mansion with a museum dedicated to those who broke German WWII communications.

16th-century, English Renaissance style mansion housing natural history museum, set in parkland.

Access to areas of Old Trafford normally restricted to players plus displays about the club's past.

Restored period village with historic facades and the National Tram Museum's collection of vehicles.

Restored farmsteads with animals and hands on activities, recreating rural life from 1300-1910.

Prehistoric caves geared for family visits with kids' activities, tours and a large restaurant.

An 1880's station with steam engines on display, a museum & gift shop on a heritage railway line.

Main station for a 19th-century valley steam railway with a tearoom, model & gift shop.

👍👍 We aren't Liverpool fans but well worth a visit. We visited with two under two year olds and the staff were so helpful in helping us around, through the lifts, finding baby change facilities, and helping when our son bumped his head. The guides are so friendly, clearly love the club and the city, an...

Church built as an Early English-style Catholic abbey in the 12th century and repurposed in 1537.

Early 17th-century prison open for guided ghost walks, plus escape rooms & team-building activities.

Fire-fighting exhibits and 40 emergency service vehicles on display in a 1900 former fire station.