Name: Curious About Harrogate
Rating: 5.0

Curious About Harrogate

Valley Gardens, Valley Drive, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, HG2 0JR, England

1-90 Years

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The Harrogate Curious About Harrogate is a self-guided walking tour experience that combines sightseeing with a fun treasure hunt. It offers an engaging way to explore the town’s history, architecture, and hidden gems. Perfect for families and friends, it allows you to discover Harrogate at your own pace.

Visitors can follow two heritage walks through the town centre, covering key locations like Valley Gardens, Royal Pump Room, The Stray, and Victoria Avenue. Activities include solving clues, exploring landmarks, learning about local history, and enjoying scenic walks through gardens and historic streets. The experience is interactive and flexible, with routes designed for all ages, including children from age 6, and suitable for walking or wheelchair use.

Pricing starts from £7.49 for a downloadable version or £7.99 plus P&P for a printed booklet.

The experience offers a fun and active way to explore Harrogate while learning about its rich heritage. With its mix of discovery, problem-solving, and sightseeing, it keeps everyone engaged throughout the journey. It is a great choice for those looking for a flexible and enjoyable outdoor activity.

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Embark on our self-guided walking tours in Harrogate, designed to lead you through the town's rich history and stunning architecture. These heritage walks offer a unique treasure hunt experience, perfect for families and friends seeking to uncover Harrogate's hidden gems.
Whether you're interested in historic landmarks or simply enjoying a leisurely stroll, our tours provide an engaging way to explore Harrogate's town centre. Harrogate is an elegant North Yorkshire town, with an abundance of fabulous spring bulbs in the Stray.
Its claims to fame include hosting the Eurovision song contest in 1982; being voted the happiest place to live in Britain and one of the world’s most romantic destinations; hosting the last working Turkish Baths, and the place where the 2012 Olympic Cauldron was built.
In 1858 Charles Dickens described it as ‘the queerest place with the strangest people in it leading the oddest lives..’. Come and make your own minds up! An exploration of Harrogate's town centre with two self-guided heritage walks with an optional treasure hunt.
Completing the treasure hunt keeps everyone actively engaged, and urges you to look up, down and every which-way - so you won't miss out on any of the town's treasures.
Most clues are chosen for their historical value, so you'll learn about the diverse culture, significant people and extraordinary events which have influenced Harrogate in becoming what it is today. This is an outdoor, unsupervised activity - so you can go at a pace which suits you, whilst keeping you healthy!
A Curious About walk is a fun and social activity for all the family and friends. Different people can take on different roles - follow the map, identify picture clues, read directions, etc - it's ideal for children from the age of 6, and if you can walk/wheelchair it, you're young enough!
The two walks have been designed so that the second one follows on from where the first one ends. Do both, or have a breather and do the second one another day! They both start and finish in the heart of the town - so buses, trains and car parks are easily available to get you there and back.

What to see

Valley Gardens to The Royal Pump Room - 1.5 miles / 2.4 kms: Start with a promenade through Valley Gardens, home to wells, springs, a sun pavilion and its colonnades, and beautiful gardens. Pass the Old Swan Hotel and Royal Hall, with strange stories to tell. Visit the town centre, with Victoria Gardens as its oasis. Walk beside Bettys’ famous tea rooms, then Turkish baths and an unusual statue, before arriving at the Royal Pump Room, now a glorious museum to Harrogate’s past.
The Royal Pump Room to The Stray - 1 mile / 1.6 kms: From the Royal Pump Room, and its majestic museum, past the historic Crown Hotel, you soon reach one end of The Stray, with its criss-crossing of paths. Next it’s Victoria Avenue, a broad thoroughfare which once embraced the divide between High and Low Harrogate, before returning once more to The Stray and its glorious views of open countryside.