Askham Bryan is a Village in the county of North Yorkshire.

Retail in Askham Bryan

There are great places to visit near Askham Bryan 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.

Catrigg Force, Lockin Garth Force, Whitfield Gill Force, Slape Wath Waterfall, Mill Gill Force, Cotter Force, and Aysgill Force are great places to visit near Askham Bryan if you like waterfalls.

The area around Askham Bryan features a number of interesting ruins 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.

Bolton Abbey, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains) are some of Askham Bryan best historic monuments to visit near Askham Bryan.

Askham Bryan's best nearby hiking areas can be found at Deepdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Swilla Glen, Baxenghyll Gorge, and Raven Ray.

Askham Bryan has some unmissable villages nearby like Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, West Burton, Bainbridge, Aysgarth, and Malham.

The area around Askham Bryan features a number of interesting rivers and streams including Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton.

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

Don't miss Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Gaping Gill, Janet's Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave's caves if visiting the area around Askham Bryan.

Limestone Pavements to visit near Askham Bryan include Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement.

There are a several good mountains in the area around Askham Bryan like Ingleborough.

Cities to visit near Askham Bryan include York, and Ripon.

York Minster, Marton House, Norton Tower (ruin), Church of St Peter - Rylstone, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge are some of Askham Bryan best historic buildings to visit near Askham Bryan.

The area around Askham Bryan features a number of interesting hills including Addlebrough, Embsay Crag, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, and Sugar Loaf Hill.

There are a number of geological features near Askham Bryan including Malham Cove, Grassington Lead Mines, and Brimham Rocks.

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

Don't miss Grassington Lead Mines's old mines if visiting the area around Askham Bryan.

Askham Bryan is near some unmissable country parks like Brimham Rocks,

Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Studley Royal Water Garden are some of Askham Bryan best parks to visit near Askham Bryan.

Askham Bryan is near some unmissable gardens like Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden,

The area around Askham Bryan boasts some of the best ancient sites including Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave.

Askham Bryan History

There are some historic monuments around Askham Bryan:

• 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
• Roman camp on Bootham Stray, 450m north east of Moor Farm
• Catterton Hall moated site and adjacent building platform
• Brocket Hall moated site
• Mote Hill: a moated site, two fishponds and part of an adjacent field system 500m west of Nun Appleton Hall
• Tithe barn
• Nether Poppleton medieval moated site, fishponds and earthworks around and associated with St Everilda's Church
• York Minster cathedral precinct: including Bootham Bar and the length of City Walls extending round the precinct up to Monk Bar
• St Andrew's College and moat, 440m north east of College Farm
• St George's medieval chapel 120m south of York Castle
• Lamel Hill (Anglo-Saxon tumulus)
• St Mary's Abbey precinct walls
• Standing tower and below ground remains of St Lawrence's Church and associated burial ground
• York prebendary manor moated site, 300m north west of Hawthorn Farm
• Kelfield moated site and fishpond, 180m north of Kelfield Church
• South angle tower of Roman fortress
• 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
• Kensbury moated site, fishpond and fragment of a medieval field system
• Fulford cross, 200m south west of the barracks
• Roman villa
• Moated site 50m north west of Red House
• St Mary's Abbey
• Medieval stone town house known as The Norman House to the rear of Nos 48 and 50 Stonegate
• St Peter's Hospital, part of undercroft beneath the Theatre Royal
• Merchant's Hall, Fossgate
• Cawood Castle and Castle Garth: residence of the medieval Archbishops of York and associated enclosure containing gardens, five fishponds and a quarry pit
• Cold War period Royal Observer Corps Group Headquarters, Howe Hill
• Roman camp on Clifton Moor, 275m NNE of Moor Farm
• Steeton medieval village, moated site and fishponds