Walk the reedbeds and lagoons of Far Ings National Nature Reserve at Barton-upon-Humber

Look up at the Humber Bridge from the Far Ings reedbeds

Watch migrating waders and wildfowl from the hides

Far Ings, on the south bank of the Humber at Barton-upon-Humber, is a national nature reserve of reedbeds and lagoons in old clay pits, just west of the Humber Bridge. The estuary funnels migrating birds down its shores, and the hides look out over waders and wildfowl.

Far Ings: Reedbeds Under the Humber Bridge

Visit The Deep, the aquarium opened in 2002 on the Humber

Explore the Hull Maritime Museum in Queen Victoria Square

Tour Wilberforce House, the birthplace of William Wilberforce, on High Street

See the 1960 trawler Arctic Corsair in her new dry-dock berth at the North End Shipyard

Look up at the Humber Bridge from the shore, whose 1,410m span was the longest single span in the world when it opened in 1981

The Deep, an aquarium on the Humber, opened in 2002. In the old town, William Wilberforce was born in the house on High Street that is now his museum, the Maritime Museum stands in Queen Victoria Square, and the 1960 trawler Arctic Corsair has a new berth in the old dry dock at the North End Shipyard. Upstream, the Humber Bridge had the longest single span in the world, 1,410m, when it opened in 1981.

Hull: The Deep, Wilberforce House and the Arctic Corsair

Visit Beverley Minster, rebuilt between about 1190 and 1420, and find the Percy Tomb and the 68 carved misericords in the quire

Find the medieval musicians carved around the nave

See the pilgrim's rabbit carving in St Mary's

Walk through the North Bar, the brick medieval gate of 1409

Beverley Minster was rebuilt between about 1190 and 1420, is larger than a third of England's cathedrals and is regarded as a Gothic masterpiece; the Percy Tomb inside, of around 1340, has a canopy regarded as one of the best surviving examples of Gothic carving, and the nave is lined with carvings of musicians from the second quarter of the 14th century. St Mary's at the other end of the town has a carved rabbit said to have given Lewis Carroll his White Rabbit.

Beverley: The Minster and the Percy Tomb

Walk out to Spurn Head from Kilnsea at low tide

Find the two old lighthouses on the point

Spurn runs more than three miles out from the East Riding coast across the mouth of the Humber, in places only 50 yards wide. It was a spit with a road down it until a storm in 2013 made the road impassable at high tide, so it is now a tidal island. The Yorkshire Wildlife Trust has owned it since 1960 as a national nature reserve, and the Humber funnels migrating birds down its shores. At the tip, Spurn Head, the lifeboat station was built in 1810 and was home to an RNLI crew until early 2023, and two old lighthouses stand on the point.

Spurn: The Island That Used to Be a Spit

Walk the deserted medieval village of Wharram Percy, abandoned by about 1500

Trace the house platforms and the fishpond at Wharram Percy

Walk a section of the Wolds Way through the dry chalk valleys

The Yorkshire Wolds Way runs 79 miles of chalk from Hessle on the Humber to Filey Brigg, opened in 1982 and one of the quieter National Trails. Beyond Thixendale, about three-fifths of the way along, lies Wharram Percy, the deserted medieval village abandoned by about 1500, where the church shell stands in an empty valley with the house platforms still visible in the grass.

The Yorkshire Wolds Way: Wharram Percy and the Chalk Valleys

See the rescued lions in the Lion Country reserve

Walk the whole park circuit and find the Amur tigers

The Yorkshire Wildlife Park opened outside Doncaster in 2009 on an old farm and now holds about 500 animals of 100 species. In 2010 it rescued thirteen lions from a Romanian zoo and built Lion Country for them, and in 2014 it opened Project Polar for polar bears, starting with a 500kg male called Victor.

Yorkshire Wildlife Park: Polar Bears in South Yorkshire

Walk Louth, the Wolds market town, and look up at the 287ft spire of St James' Church, the tallest on any Anglican parish church

Walk Hubbard's Hills, the glacial valley on the edge of the town

Walk the Georgian streets and the Wednesday market

St James' at Louth carries the third tallest spire in the United Kingdom and the tallest on an Anglican parish church; work began in 1501 and finished in 1515, and it can be seen right across the Wolds. The town below it is Georgian brick and market squares, with the chalk grassland of the Wolds and the Hubbard's Hills valley on its edge.

Louth: The Tallest Spire on an Anglican Parish Church

Visit Kelham Island Museum and see the River Don Engine, the 12,000-horsepower steam engine of 1905, and the Bessemer converter

Tour Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet, the 18th-century water-powered scythe works

Explore the Millennium Gallery and its Winter Garden in the city centre

Kelham Island Museum keeps the River Don Engine, a 12,000-horsepower steam engine of 1905, and a Bessemer converter, the last to work in Britain, brought from Workington. South of the centre, Abbeydale Industrial Hamlet is an 18th-century water-powered scythe works, and in town the Millennium Gallery stands beside the Winter Garden.

Sheffield: Kelham Island and Abbeydale

Walk the 500 acres of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, opened in 1977 in the Bretton Hall estate, among works by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Andy Goldsworthy and James Turrell

Visit The Hepworth Wakefield, David Chipperfield's gallery opened in 2011

Find the Henry Moore bronzes in the open landscape at YSP

Walk the lakeside paths and visit the Underground Gallery at YSP

The Yorkshire Sculpture Park opened in the Bretton Hall estate in 1977 and spreads Moore, Hepworth, Goldsworthy and changing shows over 500 acres of park, lakes and pasture; it is the only place in Europe to see Barbara Hepworth's The Family of Man in its entirety. Seven miles away in Wakefield, David Chipperfield's Hepworth gallery opened in 2011 on the Calder, holding Barbara Hepworth's plasters and prototypes.