Retail in Sleights
There are great places to visit near Sleights 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 some of Sleights best waterfalls to visit near Sleights.
The area around Sleights boasts some of the best ruins including 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, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains)'s historic monuments if visiting the area around Sleights.
Don't miss Deepdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Swilla Glen, Baxenghyll Gorge, and Raven Ray's hiking areas if visiting the area around Sleights.
Sleights's best nearby villages can be found at Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, West Burton, Bainbridge, Aysgarth, and Malham.
The area around Sleights features a number of interesting rivers and streams including Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton.
Hawes, Skipton, Grassington, Richmond, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, and Settle are some of Sleights best towns to visit near Sleights.
Caves to visit near Sleights include Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Gaping Gill, Janet's Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave.
The area around Sleights features a number of interesting limestone pavements including Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement.
Sleights is near some unmissable mountains like Ingleborough,
Don't miss York, and Ripon's cities if visiting the area around Sleights.
The area around Sleights features a number of interesting historic buildings including York Minster, Marton House, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge.
There are a number of hills near Sleights including 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 great places to visit near Sleights if you like geological features.
Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle are great places to visit near Sleights if you like castles.
There are a several good old mines in the area around Sleights like Grassington Lead Mines.
Country Parks to visit near Sleights include Brimham Rocks.
Don't miss Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Studley Royal Water Garden's parks if visiting the area around Sleights.
Places near Sleights feature a number of interesting gardens including Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden.
The area around Sleights boasts some of the best ancient sites including Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave.
Sleights History
There are some historic monuments around Sleights:
- 'Greenlands Howe' round barrow, Sleights Moor
- Allan Tofts cairnfield, field system, burial cairns and prehistoric rock art, immediately south of Morton Close
- High Bride Stones
- Bowl barrow 825m north of the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe
- Round barrow 300m south east of Thorn Key Howes
- Louven Howe round barrow
- Two round barrows 1/4 mile (400m) NE of Horse Mire Head Farm
- The Latter Gate Hills tumuli; the northern of the two, 200m ESE from the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe
- Simon Howe: a round cairn on Goathland Moor, two associated round barrows, a standing stone and a stone alignment
- Ash Holm alum works, 350m south east of Mulgrave Castle
- Round barrow at Lady Cross, 730m south west of Dun Bogs
- Bowl barrow 30m north of Lilla Cross
- Foster Howes bowl barrow (central) on Sneaton High Moor
- Sandsend alum house
- Alum quarries and works 800m north of Sandsend Bridge
- Round barrow 370m south of Thorn Keys Howes
- Standing stone 470m north east of High Farm, known as Wade's Stone
- Prehistoric cross dyke 980m west of Foulsike Farm including a standing stone known as Old Wife's Neck
- Round barrow on Whinny Hill, 270m south west of High Farm
- Linear earthwork south east of the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe
- Bowl barrow 710m north west of Thornfields
- Round barrow and gallows site known as Butter Howe
- John Cross boundary cross on Shooting House Rigg immediately east of Wilson's Shooting House
- Bowl barrow 65m west of Standing Stones on Standing Stones Rigg
- Round barrow on Dunsley Moor, known as Swarth Howe
- Saltwick Nab alum quarries
- Two Howes: two round barrows on Goathland Moor
- Cairnfield, field system and ring cairn 610m south east of Foulsike Farm
- Widow Howe: two round barrows on Widow Howe Rigg
- Wayside cross known as Swarth Howe Cross, 500m north east of Moorcock
- Two 'Flat Howes' round barrows, Sleights Moor
- Round barrow known as Burn Howe
- Lilla Cross on Lilla Howe, Fylingdales Moor
- Round barrow on Stony Rigg, 460m south of Greenlands Farm
- Two round barrows E of Coopers Quarries
- Cairnfield, including a standing stone, round barrow, round cairn, enclosed field and part of Cucket medieval deer park boundary, 360m north of Eden House
- Bowl barrow 530m north west of Thornfields
- Bowl barrow in north corner of a field 205m south of the Standing Stones on Standing Stones Rigg
- Alum works at Kettleness
- Bowl barrow 455m north west of Thornfields
- Standing stones forming a small stone circle on Standing Stones Rigg, 520m west of Ramsdale
- Round barrow on Derwent Head Rigg, 145m east of High Woof Howe
- Round barrow on Goathland Moor, 360m west of Collinson Bield
- World War II bombing decoy, 500m north west of John Cross
- Round barrow and two standing stones in Hutton Mulgrave Plantation, 115m west of Swarth Howe
- Robbed Howe bowl barrow, 500m north of Robbed Howe Slacks on Sneaton High Moor
- Round barrow 860m south west of Dun Bogs
- Wayside cross called Postgate Cross on Graystone Hills 700m NNE of Sneaton Corner
- Brown Hill round cairn
- Two round barrows 500m south west of Foulsike Farm
- The Latter Gate Hills tumuli; the southern of the two, 240m south east from the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe
- Round barrow on Goathland Moor, 240m west of Collinson Bield
- Round barrow on Derwent Head Rigg, 200m east of High Woof Howe
- Roman signal station at Goldsborough, 130m south east of Scratch Alley
- High Woof Howe round barrow at Derwent Head Rigg
- Round barrow on Cow Hill, 410m south west of Scratch Alley
- Round barrow on Dunsley Moor, 160m west of Skelder Cottage
- Foster Howes bowl barrow (north) on Sneaton High Moor
- Ann's Cross wayside cross on bowl barrow 800m south east of Foster Howes
- Lady Cross wayside cross, north of the A171 and 20m west of the Barnby turn-off
- Moated site at Low Laithes Farm, Whitby Laithes
- Round barrow 690m south east of John Bond's Sheep House
- Whitby Abbey: Saxon double-house, post-Conquest Benedictine monastery, C17 manor house and C14 cross.
- Old Mulgrave Castle: an enclosure castle incorporated into an 18th century planned landscape
- Low Bride Stones
- Round barrow on Dunsley Moor, 800m south west of Skelder Cottage
- Linear earthwork to the NW of the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe
- Group of seventeen tumuli to the N of Greenlands Howe, on the east side of Sleights Moor
- York Cross wayside cross, 700m north east of Foster Howes on Sneaton High Moor
- Round barrow adjacent to the Whinstone Ridge on Goathland Moor, 600m SSW of Breckon Howe
- Hawsker Cross wayside cross, 100m east of Hawsker Hall Farm
- Foster Howes bowl barrow (south) on Sneaton High Moor
- Foss Castle: a motte and bailey, precursor to Old Mulgrave Castle
- 'Pen Howe' tumuli
- Two round barrows known as Thorn Key Howes, on Low Moor
- Round cairn on Skivick Crag, 380m south west of Wheeldale Lodge
- Fyling medieval deer park wall section
- Cairnfield on Howl Moor 510m south of Wheeldale Lodge, including an unenclosed hut circle settlement, field system and round burial cairns
- Bowl barrow 300m north east of the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe
- Enclosure on In Moor, Struntry Carr
- The Wishing Chair Cross cross base at junction of Stakesby Road and Westbourne Road
- Bowl barrow on Low Moor 185m south of the Postgate Cross
- Round barrow on Brockrigg, 400m east of Brockrigg Farm
- Roman Fort on Lease Rigg
- 'Breckon Howe' round barrow, Sleights Moor
- Standing stone on Brockrigg known as Wade's Stone, 420m south east of Brockrigg Farm
- Cairnfield 350m south west of Foulsike Farm
