Car Hire Doncaster - Mini guide to Doncaster

The ancient Roman town of Doncaster in southern Yorkshire has something for everyone with its excellent museums, beautiful parks, superb restaurants and extensive shopping facilities.

Set in picturesque Yorkshire, the countryside is one of Doncaster’s main attractions. However, the town is also noted for the Cusworth Hall Museum, which contains displays of everyday life in South Yorkshire from the past 200 years in the 18th century home. The museum is also has beautiful landscaped gardens to explore.

Doncaster also has other interesting attractions, including the Doncaster Aeroventure South Yorkshire Aircraft Museum, which houses a collection of British jets and helicopters in the historic aircraft hangar built during World War II. A visit to the Doncaster Museum and Art Gallery, which displays regional collections of human and natural history, art, glass and ceramics, also shouldn’t be missed.

The town boasts superb shopping facilities, and The Yorkshire Outlet shopping centre has everything you could possibly need, from fashion and household goods, to books and entertainment. Or if you’d like to do something more physical, visit The Dome, the largest leisure facility in the UK under one roof with swimming pools, Jacuzzi, an ice rink (with real snow!), Roman baths, squash courts and fitness suite. Doncaster also has fine restaurants and pubs to suit everyone’s taste.

A daytrip into Yorkshire’s beautiful countryside should also be put on the agenda. Visit The Crags, a chain of north-facing rocky outcrops near the River Gorge, which in ancient times were vital to local transport, communication and defence. Or discover Fishlake Heritage Trail, a landscape of low-lying meadows and marshes, of which the network of hedgerows still survives largely intact, some being hundreds of years old. Or tour St. Cuthberts Church at Fishlake village, built by the Normans in the 12th century.

There are up-to two hourly trains from London Kings Cross Station to Doncaster (duration: 1 hour, 45 minutes). Motorist can reach the city by following the M18 or A1 north, the town being located just north of where these two routes intersect (junctions 2/35). The nearest international airport is in Newcastle, though services are limited.