HC Deb 03 July 1989 vol 156 c69W
Mr. Redmond

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment what are the top 20 tourist attractions in numbers of tourists attending or visiting Yorkshire and Humberside.

Mr. Lee

The English tourist board's annual survey of visits to attractions gives the following figures for the Yorkshire and Humberside regional tourist board area in 1988:

Number of visits
York Minster 2,100,000
Flamingo Land 1,001,000
Jorvik Viking Centre 865,909
National Museum of Photography 824,811
Rother Valley Country Park 689,329
Castle Museum, York 640,705
National Railway Museum 565,574
Hornsea Pottery 500,000
Tropical World, Leeds 500,000
Lightwater Valley Theme Park 421,121
Bridlington Leisure World 350,748
Sheffield City Museum 321,106
Fountains Abbey 274,414
North Yorkshire Moors Railway 250,000
Leeds City Art Gallery 236,223
Bolton Abbey 233,130
York Dungeon 231,149
Thyrbergh Country Park, Doncaster 225,000
Bronte Parsonage, Haworth 212,545
Dalby Forest Drive 205,000

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