Bishopthorpe is a Village in the county of North Yorkshire.

Retail in Bishopthorpe

There are great places to visit near Bishopthorpe including some great waterfalls, ruins, historic monuments, hiking areas, villages, rivers and streams, towns, caves, limestone pavements, geological features, mountains, cities, historic buildings, hills, castles, 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 Bishopthorpe if you like waterfalls.

Bolton Abbey, Byland Abbey, Easby Abbey (ruin), Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), Trig Point on Warrendale Knotts, and Old Limekiln at Blua Crags are great places to visit near Bishopthorpe if you like ruins.

There are a several good historic monuments in the Bishopthorpe area like Bolton Abbey, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains).

The area around Bishopthorpe boasts some of the best hiking areas including Deepdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Swilla Glen, Baxenghyll Gorge, and Raven Ray.

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

The area around Bishopthorpe boasts some of the best rivers and streams including Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton.

There are a number of towns near Bishopthorpe including Hawes, Skipton, Grassington, Richmond, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, and Settle.

Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Janet's Cave, Gaping Gill, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave are great places to visit near Bishopthorpe if you like caves.

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

Don't miss Malham Cove, and Brimham Rocks's geological features if visiting the area around Bishopthorpe.

Mountains to visit near Bishopthorpe include Ingleborough.

Cities to visit near Bishopthorpe include York, and Ripon.

The area around Bishopthorpe features a number of interesting historic buildings including York Minster, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge.

Addlebrough, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, Sugar Loaf Hill, and Attermire Scar are some of Bishopthorpe best hills to visit near Bishopthorpe.

Bishopthorpe has some unmissable castles nearby like Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle.

There are a several good country parks in the area around Bishopthorpe like Brimham Rocks.

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

There are a several good gardens in the area around Bishopthorpe like Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden.

There are a several good ancient sites in the Bishopthorpe area like Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave.

Bishopthorpe History

There are some historic monuments around Bishopthorpe:

• Danes Hills square barrow cemetery, 300m south of Adamson Farm
• Steeton medieval village, moated site and fishponds
• 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
• Nether Poppleton medieval moated site, fishponds and earthworks around and associated with St Everilda's Church
• Siwards How, south east of the water tower, Heslington Hill
• Round barrow on Skipwith Common, 800m south east of Adamson Farm
• Mote Hill: a moated site, two fishponds and part of an adjacent field system 500m west of Nun Appleton Hall
• Lamel Hill (Anglo-Saxon tumulus)
• Cold War period Royal Observer Corps Group Headquarters, Howe Hill
• World War II bombing decoy 500m east of Bland's Plantation
• 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
• York prebendary manor moated site, 300m north west of Hawthorn Farm
• St Mary's Abbey precinct walls
• Brocket Hall moated site
• York Minster cathedral precinct: including Bootham Bar and the length of City Walls extending round the precinct up to Monk Bar
• Kelfield moated site and fishpond, 180m north of Kelfield Church
• Medieval stone town house known as The Norman House to the rear of Nos 48 and 50 Stonegate
• Tithe barn
• St George's medieval chapel 120m south of York Castle
• South angle tower of Roman fortress
• Cawood Castle and Castle Garth: residence of the medieval Archbishops of York and associated enclosure containing gardens, five fishponds and a quarry pit
• Round barrow on Skipwith Common, 690m north west of Horseshoe Pond
• Standing tower and below ground remains of St Lawrence's Church and associated burial ground
• St Andrew's College and moat, 440m north east of College Farm
• Fulford cross, 200m south west of the barracks
• Kensbury moated site, fishpond and fragment of a medieval field system
• Round barrow on Skipwith Common, 810m south of Skipwith Church
• Moated site 50m north west of Red House
• Moated site and fishpond 140m south of St Helen's Church
• Roman camp on Bootham Stray, 450m north east of Moor Farm
• Roman camp on Huntington South Moor, 300m east of Huntington Grange
• Round barrow on Skipwith Common, 830m south east of Adamson Farm
• Paradise Lodge moated site and grange of the Prior of Bolton
• St Peter's Hospital, part of undercroft beneath the Theatre Royal
• Merchant's Hall, Fossgate
• St Mary's Abbey
• Roman camp on Clifton Moor, 275m NNE of Moor Farm