Askham Bryan is a Village in the county of North Yorkshire.

Retail in Askham Bryan

There are great places to visit near Askham Bryan 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.

There are a number of waterfalls near Askham Bryan including Catrigg Force, Lockin Garth Force, Whitfield Gill Force, Slape Wath Waterfall, Mill Gill Force, Cotter Force, and Aysgill Force.

The area around Askham Bryan features a number of interesting ruins including 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.

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 Askham Bryan.

Hiking Areas to visit near Askham Bryan include Deepdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Swilla Glen, Baxenghyll Gorge, and Raven Ray.

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

Askham Bryan has some unmissable rivers and streams nearby like Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton.

Askham Bryan's best nearby towns can be found at Hawes, Skipton, Grassington, Richmond, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, and Settle.

There are a number of caves near Askham Bryan including Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Gaping Gill, Janet's Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave.

Askham Bryan's best nearby limestone pavements can be found at Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement.

Places near Askham Bryan feature a number of interesting mountains including Ingleborough.

The area around Askham Bryan boasts some of the best cities including York, and Ripon.

The area around Askham Bryan 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.

Askham Bryan's best nearby hills can be found at Addlebrough, Embsay Crag, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, and Sugar Loaf Hill.

Geological Features to visit near Askham Bryan include Malham Cove, Grassington Lead Mines, and Brimham Rocks.

There are a several good castles in the Askham Bryan area like Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle.

Grassington Lead Mines is a great place to visit close to Askham Bryan if you like old mines.

Brimham Rocks is a great place to visit close to Askham Bryan if you like country parks.

There are a number of parks near Askham Bryan including 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 Askham Bryan like Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden.

Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave are great places to visit near Askham Bryan if you like ancient sites.

Askham Bryan History

There are some historic monuments around Askham Bryan:

• St George's medieval chapel 120m south of York Castle
• 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
• Kensbury moated site, fishpond and fragment of a medieval field system
• Standing tower and below ground remains of St Lawrence's Church and associated burial ground
• Merchant's Hall, Fossgate
• St Peter's Hospital, part of undercroft beneath the Theatre Royal
• Brocket Hall moated site
• Roman villa
• Kelfield moated site and fishpond, 180m north of Kelfield Church
• Roman camp on Clifton Moor, 275m NNE of Moor Farm
• Catterton Hall moated site and adjacent building platform
• St Mary's Abbey
• Mote Hill: a moated site, two fishponds and part of an adjacent field system 500m west of Nun Appleton Hall
• Roman camp on Bootham Stray, 450m north east of Moor Farm
• St Mary's Abbey precinct walls
• Medieval stone town house known as The Norman House to the rear of Nos 48 and 50 Stonegate
• Fulford cross, 200m south west of the barracks
• Tithe barn
• St Andrew's College and moat, 440m north east of College Farm
• Cold War period Royal Observer Corps Group Headquarters, Howe Hill
• York prebendary manor moated site, 300m north west of Hawthorn Farm
• 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
• Steeton medieval village, moated site and fishponds
• South angle tower of Roman fortress
• York Minster cathedral precinct: including Bootham Bar and the length of City Walls extending round the precinct up to Monk Bar
• Nether Poppleton medieval moated site, fishponds and earthworks around and associated with St Everilda's Church
• Cawood Castle and Castle Garth: residence of the medieval Archbishops of York and associated enclosure containing gardens, five fishponds and a quarry pit
• Lamel Hill (Anglo-Saxon tumulus)