Strensall is a Village in the county of North Yorkshire.

Strensall postcode: YO32 5UB

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There are great places to visit near Strensall 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 some of Strensall best waterfalls to visit near Strensall.

Don't miss 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's ruins if visiting the area around Strensall.

The area around Strensall features a number of interesting historic monuments including Bolton Abbey, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains).

Deepdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Swilla Glen, Baxenghyll Gorge, and Raven Ray are some of Strensall best hiking areas to visit near Strensall.

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

Rivers and Streams to visit near Strensall include Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton.

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

There are a several good caves in the Strensall area like Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Janet's Cave, Gaping Gill, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave.

Limestone Pavements to visit near Strensall 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 Strensall.

There are a number of mountains near to Strensall including Ingleborough.

There are a number of cities near Strensall including York, and Ripon.

Strensall's best nearby historic buildings can be found at York Minster, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge.

The area around Strensall features a number of interesting hills including Addlebrough, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, Sugar Loaf Hill, and Attermire Scar.

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

Country Parks to visit near Strensall include Brimham Rocks.

Strensall has some unmissable parks nearby like Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Studley Royal Water Garden.

Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden is a great place to visit close to Strensall if you like gardens.

Strensall's best nearby ancient sites can be found at Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave.

Strensall History

There are some historic monuments around Strensall:

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