Haxby is a Town in the county of North Yorkshire.

Haxby postcode: YO32 2

Retail in Haxby

There are great places to visit near Haxby 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.

Haxby has some unmissable waterfalls nearby like Catrigg Force, Lockin Garth Force, Whitfield Gill Force, Slape Wath Waterfall, Mill Gill Force, Cotter Force, and Aysgill Force.

Haxby has some unmissable ruins nearby like 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.

The area around Haxby boasts some of the best historic monuments including Bolton Abbey, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains).

Haxby has some unmissable hiking areas nearby like Deepdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Swilla Glen, Baxenghyll Gorge, and Raven Ray.

There are a several good villages in the Haxby area like Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, West Burton, Bainbridge, Aysgarth, and Malham.

Haxby has some unmissable rivers and streams nearby like 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 Haxby.

Haxby'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.

Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement are some of Haxby best limestone pavements to visit near Haxby.

The area close to Haxby boasts some of the best mountains including Ingleborough.

The area around Haxby features a number of interesting cities including York, and Ripon.

Historic Buildings to visit near Haxby include York Minster, Marton House, Norton Tower (ruin), Church of St Peter - Rylstone, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge.

There are a several good hills in the Haxby area like Addlebrough, Embsay Crag, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, and Sugar Loaf Hill.

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

Haxby's best nearby castles can be found at Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle.

There are a several good old mines in the area around Haxby like Grassington Lead Mines.

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

There are a number of parks near Haxby including Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Studley Royal Water Garden.

Don't miss Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden's gardens if visiting the area around Haxby.

Don't miss Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave's ancient sites if visiting the area around Haxby.

Haxby History

There are some historic monuments around Haxby:

• Roman camp on Bootham Stray, 450m north east of Moor Farm
• Deserted village of Marton in the Forest
• World War II bombing decoy 500m east of Bland's Plantation
• 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
• Medieval stone town house known as The Norman House to the rear of Nos 48 and 50 Stonegate
• Moated site known as The Rush
• Fulford cross, 200m south west of the barracks
• Merchant's Hall, Fossgate
• Augustinian nunnery known as Moxby Priory including mill and post Dissolution garden features
• Cold War period Royal Observer Corps Group Headquarters, Howe Hill
• Icehouse 75m north west of Sutton Hall
• Lamel Hill (Anglo-Saxon tumulus)
• Standing tower and below ground remains of St Lawrence's Church and associated burial ground
• Ringwork and bailey immediately south of St Helen and Holy Cross Church
• St George's medieval chapel 120m south of York Castle
• Roman camp on Huntington South Moor, 300m east of Huntington Grange
• South angle tower of Roman fortress
• Site of deserted village of East Lilling
• York Minster cathedral precinct: including Bootham Bar and the length of City Walls extending round the precinct up to Monk Bar
• Sheriff Hutton quadrangular castle and early garden earthworks
• 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
• St Peter's Hospital, part of undercroft beneath the Theatre Royal
• 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
• Roman camp on Clifton Moor, 275m NNE of Moor Farm
• St Mary's Abbey precinct walls
• St Mary's Abbey