Houses & gardens in North YorkshireNorth Yorkshire, England

Baroque palace with dome, lakes and follies.

Vast Cistercian ruin in a water garden.

Millstone grit crags above a still lake, a 1760s garden Turner painted.

An arboretum of 85 acres holding five national plant collections and champion trees.

The medieval house at Coxwold where Laurence Sterne wrote Tristram Shandy, with quirky gardens.

A red-brick Baroque mansion of 1716, hung with 18th-century portraits from the National Portrait Gallery.

A wooded gorge threaded with 18th-century grottoes and eye-catcher follies by the Aislabies.

A walled garden replanted around 2000 to a Piet Oudolf design.

The RHS’s northern flagship garden at Harrogate, 58 acres of streamside plantings, woodland and kitchen gardens with a Bettys tea room.

A great grass terrace curving between two temples high above the River Rye.

Romantic terraced gardens around a Palladian hall near Leyburn, famous for spring bulbs and stream borders.

A restored five-acre kitchen garden of 1758 with heritage fruit, herbs and hot borders below the castle.

An award-winning walled town garden behind a Georgian house in Richmond, tumbling down toward the Swale.

Sixteen acres of formal terraces and woodland walks around an Arts and Crafts hall, the only large garden open in the National Park.

A valley garden near Masham massed with rhododendrons, azaleas and hidden sculpture around ornamental lakes.

Harrogate's Victorian pleasure gardens of formal beds, a boating pond and a sun colonnade below the Pinewoods.

Ten acres of botanic gardens on the Ouse around the ruins of St Mary's Abbey and the Yorkshire Museum.

A 1680s stone manor with an attic collection of miniature furnished rooms.

A curving 1758 terrace between two temples, framing views of an abbey ruin.

Robert Lugar castellated this Georgian house above 1760s parkland with five lakes and a deer park.

A Victorian garden cemetery of 1837 with a Greek Revival chapel by James Pigott Pritchett.

A National Trust place in North Yorkshire.

A National Trust place in North Yorkshire.

A National Trust place in North Yorkshire.

A National Trust place in North Yorkshire.

A National Trust place in North Yorkshire.