Studley Royal Park

Combine a visit here and Fountains Abbey – there is a walk right through. It’s particularly good in Autumn when the trees take on terrific shades and make dazzling reflections in the lakes.

I just re-visited the park this summer with People to People, and as we were there, a couple of my students joked about hunting there. Well, I learned from our tour guide that killing one of those deer is one of the only remaining “death sentence” offenses left in England. His exact comment was “You can murder the Queen and you’ll go to prison for the rest of your life but shoot one of those deer….....”. Just a quick fascinating factoid and a reminder….killing the Queen’s Deer is punishable by death!