Brilliant! The Halloween event doesn't start until tomorrow, but the staff were great and gave us a 'camera' to take a photo whenever we felt a room felt spooky. We made paper pumpkins and got our "photographs" developed at the end. Amazingly,we managed to get lots of ghostly pictures. My child was thrilled and has now decided to pursue a career as a ghost finder. Fabulous day out, will be returning. Thanks guys!

We had a marvellous tour guide on our house tour. We were on holiday in Yorkshire and had just had an incredibly disappointing visit to Harewood House. We looked for another stately home that was open and were delighted to find that Temple Newsam was. The tour guide (many apologies can't remember his name) was so knowledgeable, personable and welcoming. He made the history of the house come alive and he went above and beyond. Would totally recommend

Amazing views and landscape. Good price tickets for house and farm. The Halloween house cellar tour was a lot of fun - a great mix of learning more about the house and getting scared 😝 Great day out!

We had booked in for the Christmas lunch event and wasn’t disappointed. Food was excellent, and great value for money. Staff were very attentive and ensured a fabulous customer experience. Well done team, we look forward to visiting again soon.

My mum and I had a delicious Christmas lunch today at Temple Newsam Tearooms. It had to be pre-booked with a small deposit and we booked it at the beginning of November, which I would recommend. The venue was the a tearoom off to the side of the courtyard and not in the cafe, as I had originally thought. The staff were very friendly, helpful and genuinely wanted us to have a superb time. The food was perfect, the vegetables were fresh and plenty of them. My mum had the turkey, which she said was very tasty and I had the vegan option. The vegan roast had a lovely hint of citrus, not over powering, just enough to know it was there. The dinner came with a gravy boat and again there was plenty. We did opt for a dessert and we both had the chocolate fudge cake, which came with cream. This is the first year that a Christmas lunch has been offered and I am not surprised to hear it was sold out. 10/10 for service and food. Thank you so much.

We have visited Temple Newsam many times with our grandchildren, enjoyed the playground, the farm and walks around, but never went into the house. This time we returned to have a guided tour of the house, and this was a revelation. We had an excellent guided tour by Josh, informative and fascinating. It was very quiet, being wintertime, restoration and cleaning were in progress, and the light level was low, but we learnt and saw an enormous amount, finishing with the amazing automaton clock. We feel the treasures in the house and the sumptuous interiors could be much more widely publicised.

Temple Newsom has a fascinating history of over 500 years yet so little is known about it by comparison with nearby houses such as Harewood. The staff ore incredibly knowledgeable and the collection in the house is vast. Somehow, and possibly due to its ownership by Leeds City Council rather than, say, the National Trust or English Heritage, it doesn't present itself as well as other local stately homes.

To be honest this wasn’t a place we knew anything about, we just found it on our route home and decided to call. What a fantastic house with loads to see and unlike many similar properties it didn’t feel as though we were only allowed in all the interesting parts of the property. Nice grounds as well, we couldn’t fit everything in and will be going back. A hidden gem, not part of National Trust but well maintained by Leeds city council although not extensively advertised by them, it deserves better.

Whilst on holiday in Ilkley we were looking for a stately home to visit and hound this on a Google search. So glad we did. It’s amazing, full credit to Leeds City Council. It’s cheaper than most National Trust places and more to see. We did a combined ticket and did the farm as well, worth it as we saw the baby lambs. Took us about 3.5 hrs all in. Deffo worth a visit

Just a quick stop at the cafe and farm shop on a long journey home from elsewhere. Boy were we glad we decided to stop here rather than at a service station! Beautiful grounds, the buildings were stunning. Really interesting reading some of the historical info dotted about on the walls. Service in the cafe was really quick considering it was absolutely heaving when we went and we were lucky to get a table. The menu was very varied, lots of vegetarian options, and decent value. The kids menu was particularly good value. I had a jacket potato with cheese and beans which also came with salad and was lovely. My partner had veggie burger and chips which he said was great. The kids (5 and 2) had children's tomato pasta meals which were good portion sizes (too big for the 2 year old). We then popped into the farm shop and got some gorgeous northern Bloc ice cream in various flavours - strawberry, salted caramel and honeycomb. This was reasonably priced too. We will definitely be coming back at some point with the kids to visit the house and farm and make a day of it. The only reason I've given 4/5 is that you have to pay almost £5 for parking regardless of length of stay which is a bit steep, and there were long queues for both the shop and to place an order at the cafe which took quite a long time to progress.