Acaster Selby is a Village in the county of North Yorkshire.

Retail in Acaster Selby

There are great places to visit near Acaster Selby including some great waterfalls, ruins, historic monuments, hiking areas, villages, rivers and streams, towns, caves, limestone pavements, mountains, cities, historic buildings, hills, geological features, castles, old mines, country parks, parks, gardens and ancient sites.

Acaster Selby's best nearby waterfalls can be found at Catrigg Force, Lockin Garth Force, Whitfield Gill Force, Slape Wath Waterfall, Mill Gill Force, Cotter Force, and Aysgill Force.

There are a number of ruins near Acaster Selby including Bolton Abbey, Byland Abbey, Norton Tower (ruin), Easby Abbey (ruin), Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Trig Point on Warrendale Knotts.

Don't miss Bolton Abbey, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains)'s historic monuments if visiting the area around Acaster Selby.

The area around Acaster Selby features a number of interesting hiking areas including Deepdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Swilla Glen, Baxenghyll Gorge, and Raven Ray.

Don't miss Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, West Burton, Bainbridge, Aysgarth, and Malham's villages if visiting the area around Acaster Selby.

Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton are great places to visit near Acaster Selby if you like rivers and streams.

Don't miss Hawes, Skipton, Grassington, Richmond, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, and Settle's towns if visiting the area around Acaster Selby.

Acaster Selby's best nearby caves can be found at Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Gaping Gill, Janet's Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave.

Limestone Pavements to visit near Acaster Selby include Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement.

There are a several good mountains in the area around Acaster Selby like Ingleborough.

There are a number of cities near Acaster Selby including York, and Ripon.

Don't miss York Minster, Marton House, Norton Tower (ruin), Church of St Peter - Rylstone, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge's historic buildings if visiting the area around Acaster Selby.

Addlebrough, Embsay Crag, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, and Sugar Loaf Hill are great places to visit near Acaster Selby if you like hills.

Malham Cove, Grassington Lead Mines, and Brimham Rocks are some of Acaster Selby best geological features to visit near Acaster Selby.

There are a several good castles in the Acaster Selby area like Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle.

Acaster Selby is near some unmissable old mines like Grassington Lead Mines,

Brimham Rocks is one of Acaster Selby's best, nearby country parks to visit in Acaster Selby.

There are a several good parks in the Acaster Selby area like Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Studley Royal Water Garden.

Places near Acaster Selby feature a number of interesting gardens including Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden.

Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave are some of Acaster Selby best ancient sites to visit near Acaster Selby.

Acaster Selby History

There are some historic monuments around Acaster Selby:

• Thorpe Hall moated monastic grange
• South angle tower of Roman fortress
• World War II bombing decoy 500m east of Bland's Plantation
• St George's medieval chapel 120m south of York Castle
• Kensbury moated site, fishpond and fragment of a medieval field system
• Paradise Lodge moated site and grange of the Prior of Bolton
• Merchant's Hall, Fossgate
• Steeton medieval village, moated site and fishponds
• Cawood Castle and Castle Garth: residence of the medieval Archbishops of York and associated enclosure containing gardens, five fishponds and a quarry pit
• Medieval stone town house known as The Norman House to the rear of Nos 48 and 50 Stonegate
• St Andrew's College and moat, 440m north east of College Farm
• York Minster cathedral precinct: including Bootham Bar and the length of City Walls extending round the precinct up to Monk Bar
• World War II airfield defences at RAF Church Fenton
• Fulford cross, 200m south west of the barracks
• Mote Hill: a moated site, two fishponds and part of an adjacent field system 500m west of Nun Appleton Hall
• The Abbot's Staithes
• St Mary's Abbey precinct walls
• Standing tower and below ground remains of St Lawrence's Church and associated burial ground
• St Peter's Hospital, part of undercroft beneath the Theatre Royal
• Brocket Hall moated site
• York prebendary manor moated site, 300m north west of Hawthorn Farm
• City Walls, gates, posterns (not including the section from Bootham Bar to Monk Bar, N of the Minster, now part of National Monument No 13280), moats, mounds, Bayle (or Baile) Hill, St Leonard's Hospital and Merchant Taylor's Hall, Aldwark
• Tithe barn
• Kelfield moated site and fishpond, 180m north of Kelfield Church
• St Mary's Abbey
• Siwards How, south east of the water tower, Heslington Hill
• Catterton Hall moated site and adjacent building platform
• Lamel Hill (Anglo-Saxon tumulus)
• World War II bombing decoy control building 270m south of Scalm Park Cottages
• York Castle: motte and bailey castle, tower keep castle (including Clifford's Tower), and site of part of Romano-British fort-vicus and Anglian cemetery
• Cold War period Royal Observer Corps Group Headquarters, Howe Hill