It’s the newest of Castle Howard’s stays, which also include a caravan and campsite with holiday homes, plus six other cottages in nearby villages. Walls are lined with replica wallpaper from the estate’s archives and portraits of earls who have lived at Castle Howard. Aside from its extraordinary country house, the Howardian Hills have become synonymous with high-quality local food and drink. Here I drop into the Woodlark and pick up a beautifully carved oak cheeseboard, its label telling me “provenance: the Castle Howard estate” (thewoodlark.com). The restaurant’s ethos is “micro seasonality” and it uses foraged ingredients, such as wild mushrooms, medlars and apples, from the Castle Howard estate.

Source: The Times May 03, 2025 19:29 UTC