Retail in Thornton-on-the-Hill
There are great places to visit near Thornton-on-the-Hill 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 great places to visit near Thornton-on-the-Hill if you like waterfalls.
Thornton-on-the-Hill's best nearby ruins can be found at 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.
Thornton-on-the-Hill's best nearby historic monuments can be found at Bolton Abbey, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains).
Deepdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Swilla Glen, Baxenghyll Gorge, and Raven Ray are some of Thornton-on-the-Hill best hiking areas to visit near Thornton-on-the-Hill.
Don't miss Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, West Burton, Bainbridge, Aysgarth, and Malham's villages if visiting the area around Thornton-on-the-Hill.
Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton are some of Thornton-on-the-Hill best rivers and streams to visit near Thornton-on-the-Hill.
Hawes, Skipton, Grassington, Richmond, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, and Settle are some of Thornton-on-the-Hill best towns to visit near Thornton-on-the-Hill.
The area around Thornton-on-the-Hill boasts some of the best caves including Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Gaping Gill, Janet's Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave.
Don't miss Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement's limestone pavements if visiting the area around Thornton-on-the-Hill.
Don't miss Ingleborough's mountains if visiting the area around Thornton-on-the-Hill.
York, and Ripon are some of Thornton-on-the-Hill best cities to visit near Thornton-on-the-Hill.
The area around Thornton-on-the-Hill boasts some of the best historic buildings including York Minster, Marton House, Norton Tower (ruin), Church of St Peter - Rylstone, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge.
There are a number of hills near Thornton-on-the-Hill including Addlebrough, Embsay Crag, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, and Sugar Loaf Hill.
There are a number of geological features near Thornton-on-the-Hill including Malham Cove, Grassington Lead Mines, and Brimham Rocks.
Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle are great places to visit near Thornton-on-the-Hill if you like castles.
The area close to Thornton-on-the-Hill boasts some of the best old mines including Grassington Lead Mines.
Brimham Rocks is one of Thornton-on-the-Hill's best, nearby country parks to visit in Thornton-on-the-Hill.
Parks to visit near Thornton-on-the-Hill include Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Studley Royal Water Garden.
There are a several good gardens in the area around Thornton-on-the-Hill like Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden.
Thornton-on-the-Hill's best nearby ancient sites can be found at Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave.
Thornton-on-the-Hill History
There are some historic monuments around Thornton-on-the-Hill:
- Round barrow 810m NNE of Waterloo Farm, the northernmost of three round barrows in Far Moor Plantation
- Wayside cross base on south side of the churchyard wall at Scawton
- Round barrow on Yearsley Moor 400m south west of High Lions' Lodge
- Section of cross ridge dyke and hollow way 200m north west of Pond Head Farm
- Section of the Cleave Dyke system, known as the Casten Dike, 300m ENE of Hambleton Inn
- Two sections of the Cleave Dyke system, one known as the Casten Dike, and a round barrow south of Kilburn Moor Plantation
- Round barrow on Scawton Moor, 480m north east of High Lodge
- Round barrow on Scawton Moor, 700m ENE of High Lodge
- Dyke at the north eastern end of Stone Bridge Howl, 760m north west of Court House Farm
- Wayside cross known as Cooper Cross on Sutton Bank
- Four round barrows on Yearsley Moor 200m south west of High Lions' Lodge
- Griff medieval settlement and Cistercian monastic grange, 400m west of Griff Farm
- Round barrow 450m north west of Garbutt Farm
- Two round barrows on Yearsley Moor 260m SSE of High Lions' Lodge
- Site of Marton Augustinian priory including mill, fishponds, and water meadows
- Square barrow on Scawton Moor, adjacent to the quarry between Snip Gill Slack and Sword Rigg Slack
- Round barrow on Yearsley Moor 230m SSE of High Lions' Lodge
- Round barrow 330yds (300m) S of Barhouse Farm
- Round barrow on Sproxton Moor, 410m north of Tom Smith's Cross
- Double dykes on Painter Rigg
- Round barrow on Scawton Moor, 390m north east of High Lodge
- Round barrow 50m east of Windyridge Farm
- Round barrow 150m north of Wombwell Arms
- Round barrow 50m south east of Windyridge Farm
- Round barrow 500m WNW of Pond Head Farm
- Two round barrows on Yearsley Moor 550m south west of High Lions' Lodge
- Rievaulx Abbey Cistercian monastery: inner and outer precinct, water-management works, agricultural features, enclosures and ancillary buildings
- Crayke Castle: a motte and bailey and later stone castle of the bishops of Durham, incorporating part of an Anglo-Saxon monastic cemetery
- Round barrow 350m north west of Pond Head Farm
- Round barrow 780m NNE of Waterloo Farm, the easternmost of three round barrows in Far Moor Plantation
- Round barrow 800m east of Windyridge Farm
- Augustinian nunnery known as Moxby Priory including mill and post Dissolution garden features
- Section of the Cleave Dyke system 45m east of the visitors' centre at Sutton Bank
- Two round barrows 200m NNE of Wombwell Arms
- Round barrow 230m east of Sutton Bank Farm
- Linear dyke known as Double Dikes, in Waterloo Plantation
- Medieval moated grange 160m south east of The Grange
- Round barrow 710m NNE of Waterloo Farm, the southernmost of three round barrows in Far Moor Plantation
- Round barrow in Cliff Plantation
- Round barrow on Yearsley Moor 330m SSW of High Lions' Lodge
- Medieval lordly residence immediately west of Church Farm
- Byland Abbey Cistercian monastery: monastic precinct, water-management earthworks, enclosures, ancillary buildings and quarries
- Byland Moor round cairns
- Pry Rigg round barrows
- Round barrow 480m east of Yorkshire Gliding Club
- Round barrow 600m north west of Garbutt Farm
- Round barrow on Scawton Moor, 620m north west of High Lodge
- Griff Cross, wayside cross 800m NNE of Griff Farm on the road from Helmsley to Rievaulx
- Studford Ring
- Hood Hill motte and bailey
- Section of Cleave Dyke prehistoric boundary on Hambleton Down and World War II bombing decoy shelters north east and north of Garbutt Farm
- Icehouse 75m north west of Sutton Hall
- Promontory fort at Roulston Scar
- Dropping Gill round cairns
- Round barrow 450m south west of Coney Hill Farm
- Round barrow 500m SSW of Coney Hill Farm
- Long Grain round barrows
- A bowl barrow at Howe Hill 130m south-south-west of St Felix's Church
- Section of the Cleave Dyke system 200m south east of Yorkshire Gliding Club
- Section of cross ridge dyke and earthworks in Roman Plantation, Oulston Moor