English heritage vs national trust?!?

[Joeyest84]

Ok so today my dp has signed up to an English heritage annual family pass by mistake as we actually wanted to get the national trust pass. (He didn't realise there was a difference)
So we are north west based and was wondering where's best to go to get our money's worth with the English heritage Or would it be worth cancelling an getting the national trust pass instead?
I would get both cards but really don't think we would get our money's worth out of both as we both work shifts and don't get as many days off together as we would like. Thanks in advance

I have both but use national trust much more. Both have maps on their sites of what's near you. If it was me I'd take a look at what's nearby that you might like to visit or any you will be near on holiday and that should help you to decide.

Thanks I've had a brief look, some of the English heritage places look free regardless of pass or not, such as hadrians wall, where as we are quite near a lot of national trust places such as tatton park and chatsworth but these are excluded from the members discount by the looks of it.
Any suggestions on places you've really enjoyed?
We went to beeston castle the other week which was a lovely day out and worth a visit again, this was part of English heritage.

Tatton park (including home farm, gardens, and house) is free to members, but the car park is owned by the local council so you have to pay for parking, (unless you live very locally). Tatton is great, always something going on in the gardens and they do a feed the deer event at half terms.

We did have both memberships but other than Beeston and Tintagel castle in Cornwall (which is 400 miles away from us) we never used it. NT on the other hand is used at least monthly.

depends where you are! Use the map for each website to see how many properties are near you.

Stokesay Castle in Shropshire is lovely and is English Heritage. You could stop off at Carding Mill Valley on the way, which is NT but the only thing it entitles you to is free parking, which is only £4 anyway.

We used to be in EH and went to Beeston a lot, but it lapsed and TBH I don't really miss it .

Thanks all, I've looked at both and it is looking like national trust would be more beneficial as there are more sites near us to visit where as most if the English heritage sites are down south.
Now all I need to do is see if I can cancel the English heritage card and get the national trust one. I believe there is an offer on as well for NT family membership online for £70 anyone know of this?
Thanks for the replies