Visitor Attraction Quality Scheme – 2016 participants Last updated 30 September 2016. Please direct any listing queries to [email protected]. East Midlands Attraction Accolade Town Website Alford Manor House Alford www.alfordmanorhouse.co.uk Ashby de la Ashby De La Zouch Museum www.ashbydelazouchmuseum.org.uk/ Zouch Chatsworth Bakewell www.chatsworth.org Haddon Hall Bakewell www.haddonhall.co.uk www.northlincs.gov.uk/tourism- Waters' Edge Country Park & Barton upon museums-and-the-arts/waters-edge- Visitor Centre Humber visitors-centre-and-country-park/ Boston Guildhall Boston www.bostonguildhall.co.uk www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynat RSPB Frampton Marsh Nature Boston ure/seenature/reserves/guide/f/frampto Reserve nmarsh/ Poole's Cavern & Buxton Buxton www.poolescavern.co.uk Country Park www.chesterfield.gov.uk/explore- Chesterfield Museum and Art Chesterfield chesterfield/museums/chesterfield- Gallery museum-and-art-gallery www.chesterfield.gov.uk/explore- Revolution House Chesterfield chesterfield/museums/revolution- house 1620s House & Garden at Coalville www.doningtonleheath.com Donington le Heath Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Coningsby www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/bbmf Visitor Centre Denby Pottery Visitor Centre Denby www.denbyvisitorcentre.co.uk Calke Abbey Best Told Story 2014 Derby www.nationaltrust.org.uk/calke-abbey/ www.derbymuseums.org/museumartg Derby Museum & Art Gallery Derby allery/ www.derbymuseums.org/pickfords- Pickford's House Museum Derby house/ Gainsborough Old Hall Gainsborough www.gainsborougholdhall.com Belton House Grantham www.nationaltrust.org.uk/belton-house www.nelincs.gov.uk/culture-events- Fishing Heritage Centre Grimsby and-tourism/grimsby-fishing-heritage- centre/ Hinckley & District Museum Hinckley www.hinckleydistrictmuseum.org.uk Wicksteed Park Kettering www.wicksteedpark.co.uk Bradgate Park Leicester www.bradgatepark.org 1 Attraction Accolade Town Website King Richard III Visitor Centre Leicester www.kriii.com National Space Centre Best Told Story 2015 Leicester www.spacecentre.co.uk www.leicester.gov.uk/leisure-and- New Walk Museum & Art culture/museums-and-galleries/our- Leicester Gallery venues/new-walk-museum-and-art- gallery www.leicester.gov.uk/leisure-and- Newarke Houses, Museum & Leicester culture/museums-and-galleries/our- Gardens venues/newarke-houses-museum/ www.leicester.gov.uk/your-council- The Guildhall, Leicester Leicester services/lc/leicester-city- museums/museums/the-guildhall/ Bransby Horses Lincoln www.bransbyhorses.co.uk Lincoln Castle Lincoln www.lincolncastle.com www.visitlincoln.com/things-to- Lincoln Guildhall Lincoln do/guildhall-and-stonebow www.lincolnshire.gov.uk/museumoflinc Museum of Lincolnshire Life Lincoln olnshirelife Museum of RAF Firefighting Lincoln www.firemuseum.co.uk The Collection - Art & Lincoln www.thecollectionmuseum.com Archaeology in Lincolnshire www.charnwood.gov.uk/pages/charnw Charnwood Museum Loughborough ood_museum Great Central Railway Loughborough www.gcrailway.co.uk Manor Farm Park & Woodlands Loughborough www.manorfarm.info Lincolnshire Wolds Railway Ludborough www.lincolnshirewoldsrailway.co.uk Sherwood Pines Forest Park Mansfield www.forestry.gov.uk/sherwoodpines Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Market Best Told Story 2014 www.bosworthbattlefield.com Centre Bosworth Market Harborough Museum www.leics.gov.uk/harboroughmuseum Harborough Market Rockingham Castle www.rockinghamcastle.com Harborough Hall Farm Park Market Rasen www.hallfarmpark.co.uk Rand Farm Park Market Rasen www.randfarmpark.com Crich Tramway Village Matlock www.tramway.co.uk The Heights of Abraham Gold 2015 Matlock Bath www.heightsofabraham.com Logins Sample Cellar & Belvoir Melton Mowbray www.belvoirbrewery.co.uk Brewery Tours Melton Carnegie Museum Melton Mowbray www.leics.gov.uk/meltonmuseum Queen Elizabeth Diamond Near Normanton www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/visiting- Jubilee Wood Le Heath woods/wood-information/qedjw Newark Air Museum Newark www.newarkairmuseum.org Charles Rennie Mackintosh Gold 2015 Northampton www.78derngate.org.uk House 2 Attraction Accolade Town Website www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches /Completelistofchurches/St-Peters- St Peter's Church Northampton Church-Northampton- Northamptonshire/ Attenborough Nature Centre Nottingham www.attenboroughnaturecentre.co.uk D H Lawrence Birthplace Nottingham www.dhlawrenceheritage.org Museum Framework Knitters' Museum Best Told Story 2015 Nottingham www.frameworkknittersmuseum.org.uk Galleries of Justice Museum Nottingham www.galleriesofjustice.org.uk Nottingham Castle Museum & Nottingham www.nottinghamcastle.org.uk Art Gallery Papplewick Pumping Station Nottingham www.papplewickpumpingstation.org.uk Wollaton Hall Nottingham www.wollatonhall.org.uk Fineshade Nr Corby www.forestry.gov.uk/toplodge Salcey Forest Nr Hartwell www.forestry.gov.uk/salceyforest Barnsdale Gardens Oakham www.barnsdalegardens.co.uk Rutland County Museum Oakham www.rutlandcountymuseum.org.uk www.anglianwater.co.uk/leisure/water- Rutland Water Park Oakham parks/rutland Rufford Abbey Country Park Ollerton www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/ruffordcp Newstead Abbey Historic House Ravenshead www.newsteadabbey.org.uk and Park Renishaw Hall & Gardens Renishaw www.renishaw-hall.co.uk 20-21 Visual Arts Centre Scunthorpe www.northlincs.gov.uk/20-21 Normanby Hall Country Park Scunthorpe www.normanbyhall.co.uk North Lincolnshire Museum Best Told Story 2014 Scunthorpe www.northlincs.gov.uk/museums Skegness Pier Skegness www.skegnesspier.co.uk Cogglesford Watermill Sleaford www.cogglesfordwatermill.co.uk Cranwell Aviation Heritage Sleaford www.cranwellaviation.co.uk Centre community.lincolnshire.gov.uk/navigati Navigation House Sleaford onhousevisitorcentre/index.asp Ayscoughfee Hall, Museum and Spalding www.ayscoughfee.org Gardens The Lincolnshire Aviation Spilsby www.lincsaviation.co.uk Heritage Centre www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches St John's Church Stamford /Completelistofchurches/St-Johns- Church-Stamford-Lincolnshire/ Conkers Swadlincote www.visitconkers.com Sharpe's Pottery Museum Swadlincote www.sharpespotterymuseum.org.uk The Canal Museum, Stoke www.stokebruernecanalmuseum.org.u Towcester Bruerne k Creswell Crags Welbeck www.creswell-crags.org.uk 3 East of England Attraction Accolade Town Website The Red House Aldeburgh www.brittenpears.org Bure Valley Railway Aylsham www.bvrw.co.uk Redwings Aylsham Visitor www.redwings.org.uk/visiting/aylsham- Aylsham Centre visitor-centre/ www.rspb.org.uk/discoverandenjoynat RSPB South Essex Marshes Basildon ure/seenature/reserves/guide/s/southe Nature Reserve ssexmarshes/ The Higgins Bedford Bedford www.thehigginsbedford.org.uk/ The Shuttleworth Collection Biggleswade www.shuttleworth.org Bishop's Bishop's Stortford Museum www.rhodesbishopsstortford.org.uk Stortford Brandon Country Park Brandon www.brandoncountrypark.org.uk High Lodge, Thetford Forest Brandon www.forestry.gov.uk/highlodge Centre Old MacDonald's Farm & Fun Brentwood www.omdfarm.co.uk Park Jordans Mill Broome www.jordansmill.com Bushey Museum & Art Gallery Hidden Gem 2015 Bushey www.busheymuseum.org The Forties Experience Bushey www.fortiesexperience.co.uk www.visitchurches.org.uk/Ourchurches All Saints' Church Cambridge /Completelistofchurches/All-Saints- Church-Cambridge-Cambridgeshire/ Cambridge American Cemetery Cambridge www.abmc.gov & Memorial City Sightseeing - Cambridge Cambridge www.citysightseeing-cambridge.com King's College Chapel Cambridge www.kings.cam.ac.uk/chapel/ Scudamore's Punting Company Cambridge www.scudamores.com Self Hire Scudamore's Punting Company Cambridge www.scudamores.com Tours Castle Colne Valley Railway www.colnevalleyrailway.co.uk Hedingham Chelmsford Museum Chelmsford www.chelmsford.gov.uk/museums Hylands House & Estate Chelmsford www.chelmsford.gov.uk/hylands RHS Garden Hyde Hall Chelmsford www.rhs.org.uk/gardens/hyde-hall Clacton Pier Clacton on Sea www.clacton-pier.co.uk Bodyflight Ltd Clapham www.bodyflight.co.uk Marks Hall Garden & Arboretum Coggeshall www.markshall.org.uk Beth Chatto Gardens Colchester www.bethchatto.co.uk 4 Attraction Accolade Town Website Colchester Castle & Roman www.visitcolchester.com/visitor- Colchester Theatre info/Roman-Colchester.aspx East Anglian Railway Museum Welcome 2015 Colchester www.earm.co.uk Fingringhoe Wick Nature www.essexwt.org.uk/reserves/fingringh Welcome 2014 Colchester Reserve oe-wick firstsite Colchester www.firstsite.uk.net/ Hollytrees Museum & Visitor Colchester www.cimuseums.org.uk/hollytrees Information Centre www.cimuseums.org.uk/naturalhistory Natural History Museum Colchester museum rnli.org/aboutus/historyandheritage/mu RNLI Henry Blogg Museum Best Told Story 2015 Cromer seums/Pages/Henry-Blogg- Museum.aspx? Downham Discover Downham www.discoverdownham.org.uk/ Market ZSL Whipsnade Zoo Dunstable www.zsl.org/zsl-whipsnade-zoo visitely.eastcambs.gov.uk/cromwell/oliv Oliver Cromwell's House Hidden Gem 2014 Ely er-cromwells-house Creake Abbey Quality Café 2014 Fakenham www.creakeabbey.co.uk Pensthorpe Natural Park Fakenham www.pensthorpe.com Thursford Collection Welcome 2015 Fakenham www.thursford.com Redwings Horse Sanctuary - www.redwings.org.uk/get- Fritton Caldecott involved/visit/caldecott-visitor-centre www.redwings.org.uk/get- Redwings Ada Cole Welcome 2015 Harlow involved/visit/ada-cole-rescue-centre www.broxbourne.gov.uk/lowewoodmus Lowewood Museum Hoddesdon eum www.cimuseums.org.uk/Christchurch- Christchurch Mansion Ipswich Mansion www.cimuseums.org.uk/Ipswich- Ipswich Museum Ipswich Museum Bircham Windmill King's Lynn www.birchamwindmill.co.uk