Retail in Melsonby
There are great places to visit near Melsonby 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.
There are a several good waterfalls in the Melsonby area like Catrigg Force, Lockin Garth Force, Whitfield Gill Force, Slape Wath Waterfall, Mill Gill Force, Cotter Force, and Aysgill Force.
Melsonby has some unmissable ruins nearby like 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.
Don't miss Bolton Abbey, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains)'s historic monuments if visiting the area around Melsonby.
The area around Melsonby features a number of interesting hiking areas including Deepdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Swilla Glen, Baxenghyll Gorge, and Raven Ray.
Melsonby has some unmissable villages nearby like Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, Malham, West Burton, Bainbridge, and Aysgarth.
The area around Melsonby boasts some of the best rivers and streams including Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton.
The area around Melsonby boasts some of the best towns 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 some of Melsonby best caves to visit near Melsonby.
Melsonby's best nearby limestone pavements can be found at Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement.
Melsonby's best nearby geological features can be found at Malham Cove, and Brimham Rocks.
Mountains to visit near Melsonby include Ingleborough.
The area around Melsonby boasts some of the best cities including York, and Ripon.
Melsonby has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like York Minster, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge.
Don't miss Addlebrough, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, Sugar Loaf Hill, and Attermire Scar's hills if visiting the area around Melsonby.
The area around Melsonby features a number of interesting castles including Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle.
Melsonby is near some unmissable country parks like Brimham Rocks,
Melsonby has some unmissable parks nearby like Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Studley Royal Water Garden.
Gardens to visit near Melsonby include Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden.
There are a several good ancient sites in the Melsonby area like Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave.
Melsonby History
There are some historic monuments around Melsonby:
- Easby Abbey Premonstratensian monastery: monastic precinct, cultivation terraces, water-management features and ancillary buildings
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary 235m south of Stanwick Hall Reservoir
- Section of Scots Dike linear boundary north of Kirklands Farm
- Summerhouse moated site and associated drainage channels, enclosure and field system
- Piercebridge Roman fort
- Barforth Bridge
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary 600m south east of Park House
- Stanwick Late Iron Age oppidum, Iron Age and medieval settlement, early Christian church and sculpture and post-medieval emparkment
- The Bargate, medieval gateway
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary 75m south west of Sandford House
- Five Hills round barrow
- Roman fort and prehistoric enclosed settlement 400m west of Carkin Moor Farm
- Round barrow 340m east of Cliffe Hall known as Betty Watson's Hill
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary running south from Olliver East for 550m
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary, 650m ENE of Park House
- Packhorse bridge across Aldbrough Beck, immediately south west of High Green
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary 250m north of Langdale
- St Lawrence's Chapel, manorial settlement remains and dovecote
- 18th century copper mill 80m north west of Copper Mill Bridge
- Ravensworth motte and bailey castle, water defence features, park pale and shrunken medieval village
- Section of Scots Dike linear boundary south of Kirklands Farm
- Manfield shrunken medieval village and associated field system
- Romano-British enclosed settlement 340m north east of East Applegarth at Whitcliffe Scar
- Deserted medieval village of Ulnaby
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary and portion of field system 100m east of Whitefields Farm
- Coniscliffe Road waterworks
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary 150m ENE of Olliver
- Section of the Scots Dyke linear boundary 250m south east of St Martin's Priory
- Deserted medieval village at Walworth
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary in Low Wood, Langdale
- Packhorse bridge
- Pallet Hill motte and bailey castle, 80m north west of St Anne's Church
- Archdeacon Newton moated site, deserted manorial settlement and section of rig and furrow
- Richmond Bridge
- Copper mine and medieval ridge and furrow north, north west and east of St Michael and All Angels Church
- Medieval cross base known as Plague Stone, 750m WSW of High Scales
- Moulton Neolithic henge, medieval settlement, field system and moated site
- St Martin's Benedictine Priory, Richmond
- Piercebridge Bridge
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary east of Langdale Rush
- St Giles medieval hospital, post-medieval farmstead and Iron Age occupation site immediately north of St Giles Farm
- Section of Scots Dike linear boundary north west of High Merrybent
- Uckerby medieval village and open field system
- Medieval cross at Barton
- Franciscan friary
- Richmond Castle: eleventh to fourteenth century enclosure castle
- Cataractonium Roman forts and town
- Roman bridge at Piercebridge
- Round barrow 190m south east of Cliffe Hall
- Section of the Scots Dyke linear boundary 225m south of St Martin's Priory
- Two moated sites, the site of a dovecote and further associated features 120m north west and 180m north of The Old Hall
- Bainesse Roman roadside settlement and Anglian cemetery
- Smotherlaw round barrow
