Colton is a Village in the county of North Yorkshire.

Colton postcode: LS24 8EP

Retail in Colton

There are great places to visit near Colton 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.

Don't miss Catrigg Force, Lockin Garth Force, Whitfield Gill Force, Slape Wath Waterfall, Mill Gill Force, Cotter Force, and Aysgill Force's waterfalls if visiting the area around Colton.

The area around Colton 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.

There are a number of historic monuments near Colton including 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 great places to visit near Colton if you like hiking areas.

Colton's best nearby villages can be found at Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, West Burton, Bainbridge, Aysgarth, and Malham.

The area around Colton boasts some of the best rivers and streams including Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton.

The area around Colton features a number of interesting towns including Hawes, Skipton, Grassington, Richmond, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, and Settle.

Caves to visit near Colton include Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Gaping Gill, Janet's Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave.

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

Places near Colton feature a number of interesting mountains including Ingleborough.

Cities to visit near Colton include York, and Ripon.

Don't miss York Minster, Marton House, Norton Tower (ruin), Church of St Peter - Rylstone, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge's historic buildings if visiting the area around Colton.

Colton has some unmissable hills nearby like Addlebrough, Embsay Crag, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, and Sugar Loaf Hill.

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

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

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

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

The area around Colton features a number of interesting parks including 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 Colton if you like gardens.

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

Colton History

There are some historic monuments around Colton:

• Roman camp on Clifton Moor, 275m NNE of Moor Farm
• St Andrew's College and moat, 440m north east of College Farm
• South angle tower of Roman fortress
• Roman villa
• Tadcaster motte and bailey castle
• Brocket Hall moated site
• Tithe barn
• Site of 'King Athelstan's Palace', immediately north of the church
• 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
• Steeton medieval village, moated site and fishponds
• 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
• Medieval stone town house known as The Norman House to the rear of Nos 48 and 50 Stonegate
• 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
• World War II airfield defences at RAF Church Fenton
• Paradise Lodge moated site and grange of the Prior of Bolton
• Kelfield moated site and fishpond, 180m north of Kelfield Church
• St George's medieval chapel 120m south of York Castle
• Saxton Castle: a motte and bailey castle with a later medieval manor house and field system including a trackway and fishpond
• Cawood Castle and Castle Garth: residence of the medieval Archbishops of York and associated enclosure containing gardens, five fishponds and a quarry pit
• Merchant's Hall, Fossgate
• St Mary's Abbey
• Catterton Hall moated site and adjacent building platform
• St Peter's Hospital, part of undercroft beneath the Theatre Royal
• Lord Dacre's Cross or Towton Cross on the west side of the B1217, 1km south west of Towton
• Kensbury moated site, fishpond and fragment of a medieval field system
• St Mary's Abbey precinct walls
• Nether Poppleton medieval moated site, fishponds and earthworks around and associated with St Everilda's Church
• York Minster cathedral precinct: including Bootham Bar and the length of City Walls extending round the precinct up to Monk Bar
• Cold War period Royal Observer Corps Group Headquarters, Howe Hill