Upper Poppleton is a Village in the county of North Yorkshire.

Retail in Upper Poppleton

There are great places to visit near Upper Poppleton 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 Upper Poppleton if you like waterfalls.

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

Bolton Abbey, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains) are some of Upper Poppleton best historic monuments to visit near Upper Poppleton.

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

Upper Poppleton has some unmissable villages nearby like Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, West Burton, Bainbridge, Aysgarth, and Malham.

Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton are some of Upper Poppleton best rivers and streams to visit near Upper Poppleton.

Hawes, Skipton, Grassington, Richmond, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, and Settle are great places to visit near Upper Poppleton if you like towns.

Don't miss Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Gaping Gill, Janet's Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave's caves if visiting the area around Upper Poppleton.

There are a several good limestone pavements in the Upper Poppleton area like Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement.

Ingleborough is one of Upper Poppleton's best, nearby mountains to visit in Upper Poppleton.

Upper Poppleton's best nearby cities can be found at York, and Ripon.

Upper Poppleton has some unmissable historic buildings nearby like York Minster, Marton House, Norton Tower (ruin), Church of St Peter - Rylstone, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge.

Hills to visit near Upper Poppleton include Addlebrough, Embsay Crag, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, and Sugar Loaf Hill.

There are a several good geological features in the Upper Poppleton area like Malham Cove, Grassington Lead Mines, and Brimham Rocks.

Upper Poppleton has some unmissable castles nearby like Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle.

Don't miss Grassington Lead Mines's old mines if visiting the area around Upper Poppleton.

Brimham Rocks is a great place to visit close to Upper Poppleton if you like country parks.

Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Studley Royal Water Garden are some of Upper Poppleton best parks to visit near Upper Poppleton.

There are a several good gardens in the area around Upper Poppleton like Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden.

There are a several good ancient sites in the Upper Poppleton area like Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave.

Upper Poppleton History

There are some historic monuments around Upper Poppleton:

• Roman camp on Huntington South Moor, 300m east of Huntington Grange
• Roman camp on Bootham Stray, 450m north east of Moor Farm
• 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
• St Mary's Abbey
• Standing tower and below ground remains of St Lawrence's Church and associated burial ground
• Fulford cross, 200m south west of the barracks
• 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
• Lamel Hill (Anglo-Saxon tumulus)
• Cold War period Royal Observer Corps Group Headquarters, Howe Hill
• Moated site 50m north west of Red House
• 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
• Catterton Hall moated site and adjacent building platform
• York Minster cathedral precinct: including Bootham Bar and the length of City Walls extending round the precinct up to Monk Bar
• Icehouse 75m north west of Sutton Hall
• Merchant's Hall, Fossgate
• St Peter's Hospital, part of undercroft beneath the Theatre Royal
• Steeton medieval village, moated site and fishponds
• Medieval stone town house known as The Norman House to the rear of Nos 48 and 50 Stonegate
• South angle tower of Roman fortress
• St Mary's Abbey precinct walls
• Roman camp on Clifton Moor, 275m NNE of Moor Farm
• St George's medieval chapel 120m south of York Castle