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Start your visit with a tea, coffee and biscuit on arrival.
£3.15pp* with pre-booked groups voucher
Head to the Millennium Chapel at 10.45am for a short service and Two-Minute Silence.
Free
See many of the highlights of the site from the comfort of our covered land train with an accompanying 50 minute pre-recorded commentary.
£7.00pp*
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Take a seat in the Royal Artillery Garden’s old gun carriages and enjoy the beautifully planted garden. See the alder tree planted in its centre, chosen because alder charcoal was once used in the production of gunpowder.
Adjoining this is the National Miners’ Memorial, illustrated with a bronze frieze depicting coal miners. The frieze descends diagonally in the style of an early drift mine, while the panels recessed into the stone represent a seam of coal cut into the earth.
Follow the path to the Far East Prisoner
of War Memorial Building, which features
a permanent exhibition telling the story of
those taken prisoner during the conflict in
the Far East in the Second World War, their
treatment, and remembers the thousands that
died as a result.
Take a moment to explore the crests, badges or cyphers elegantly carved into the York Stone paving. The pin oaks ‘Quercus palustris’, provide a natural canopy above them and were selected for their beautiful red foliage during the autumn, the season of Remembrance.
