Travel Advice
This page offers advice about some of the options available for traveling to Richmond, North Yorkshire.
Trains
Many will be flying into the UK via London Heathrow Airport (LHR).
One easy option to get to North Yorkshire is to take the train to Darlington (the nearest train station to Richmond). You should expect that this journey will take you between 3h 45m to 4h to get from LHR to Darlington. This route will take you:
- From LHR to London Paddington Train Station (don't forget to say hello to the Paddington Bear statue 😊).
- Cross London using the London Tube to London Kings Cross Station.
- A direct train from London Kings Cross to Darlington.
Once at the Darlington station you have two options:
- Contact us (See Help & Contact) and we will collect you from Darlington Station. Please give us some advanced notice so that we may arrange for one of our team to collect you.
- If you prefer to make your own way there is a taxi rank at the train station. Maps link. Note that the taxi rank is actually inside train station.
TIP
A good website/app for booking train travel in the UK is thetrainline.com. Using the app, you can get paperless tickets that work with the trains and access gates to the platforms.
Flying
You may be able to get a connecting flight to Teesside international Airport, this is the closest airport to the Richmond. As with Darlington train station you can either contact us for a pick up, or make your own way to Richmond. There are a few other close airports, such as Leeds Bradford, however getting from them to Richmond is difficult unless you plan on hiring a car. You are probably better to go a larger airport where you can easily transfer to the train for Darlington (see above).
Rental Car/Driving
Richmond has easy access by car. See below for a few common approaches into Richmond.
Important Notice
You will not be able to drive to the conference venue unless you have extenuating circumstances. Please see Travel to Conference Venue for further details.
From the South (e.g., London, Leeds):
Take the A1(M) northbound and exit at Junction 52 (Catterick). Follow the A6055 north, then merge onto the A6136 westbound (Catterick Rd). At the roundabout, with an Aldi shop on your right, turning right to continue to Follow the A6136 (now Richmond Rd) which leads directly into Richmond.
From the North (e.g., Newcastle):
Travel south on the A1(M) and exit at Junction 53 (Scotch Corner). From there, follow the A6108 westbound (Barracks Bank, later becoming Richmond Road), which will take you straight to Richmond.
From the West (e.g., Lake District, Carlisle):
Use the A66 eastbound towards Scotch Corner. Turning right at Scotch Corner, follow the A6108 westbound (Barracks Bank, later becoming Richmond Road), which will take you straight to Richmond.
Parking Options
Depending on your which hotel you are staying at there varying parking options available to you.
If you are staying at the Holiday Inn, either Travel Lodge, or the Premier Inn in Catterick, all of these hotels have free parking if you are a guest at the hotel. You can also pay to park at each of these car parks if you are not a guest but wish to park there to use the conference bus service
If you are staying at one of the many independent hotels/Air BnB's in Richmond town centre then you will likely need to use one of the pay-and-display car parks around the town. Some of which are marked out in the map below. All of the car parks listed below make use of the RingGo app for cashless payments. More information and prices can be found on the RingGo links attached to each of the map pins below.
Note
All of the pinned car parks below have a week-long ticket option for longer-term car parking, see the "Prices" tab on the RingGo website for each of the parking locations.