Ellerby is a Village in the county of North Yorkshire.

Retail in Ellerby

There are great places to visit near Ellerby 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.

Ellerby has some unmissable waterfalls nearby like Catrigg Force, Lockin Garth Force, Whitfield Gill Force, Slape Wath Waterfall, Mill Gill Force, Cotter Force, and Aysgill Force.

Ellerby'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.

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 Ellerby.

The area around Ellerby boasts some of the best hiking areas including Deepdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Swilla Glen, Baxenghyll Gorge, and Raven Ray.

There are a number of villages near Ellerby including Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, West Burton, Bainbridge, Aysgarth, and Malham.

The area around Ellerby 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 Ellerby boasts some of the best towns including Hawes, Skipton, Grassington, Richmond, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, and Settle.

Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Gaping Gill, Janet's Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave are great places to visit near Ellerby if you like caves.

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

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

Ellerby's best nearby cities can be found at 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 Ellerby.

Addlebrough, Embsay Crag, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, and Sugar Loaf Hill are great places to visit near Ellerby if you like hills.

Ellerby's best nearby geological features can be found at Malham Cove, Grassington Lead Mines, and Brimham Rocks.

Don't miss Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle's castles if visiting the area around Ellerby.

Grassington Lead Mines is one of Ellerby's best, nearby old mines to visit in Ellerby.

Ellerby is near some unmissable country parks like Brimham Rocks,

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

There are a number of gardens near to Ellerby including Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden.

Ellerby has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave.

Ellerby History

There are some historic monuments around Ellerby:

• Late Iron Age and Roman settlement on Roxby Low Moor, 225m south of Moor House Farm
• Ash Holm alum works, 350m south east of Mulgrave Castle
• Round barrow on Cow Hill, 410m south west of Scratch Alley
• Round barrow on Boulby Cliffs known as the site of Rockcliff Beacon
• Round barrow on Lealholm Moor, 600m north east of South View Farm
• Newton Mulgrave medieval settlement
• Rawland Howe round barrow on Lealholm Moor, 450m North of South View Farm
• Round barrow on Newton Mulgrave Moor, 770m south west of Newton Brow
• Round barrow 860m south west of Dun Bogs
• Beggar's Bridge
• Round barrow on Lealholm Rigg, 690m north of Benwell House
• Round barrow on Ugthorpe Moor known as Loose Howe, 130m south west of Day Well House
• Lady Cross wayside cross, north of the A171 and 20m west of the Barnby turn-off
• 'Pen Howe' tumuli
• Round barrow on Ugthorpe Moor, 450m south west of High Park Farm
• Round barrow and two standing stones in Hutton Mulgrave Plantation, 115m west of Swarth Howe
• Round barrow and 20th century Royal Observer Corps post on Beacon Hill, known as the site of Hinderwell Beacon
• Round barrow on Newton Mulgrave Moor, 570m south west of Birchdale House
• World War I early warning acoustic mirror 60m east of Boulby Barns Farm
• Round barrow on Newton Mulgrave Moor, 580m south east of Stang Howe
• Round barrow on Thorn Hill, 310m south of the confluence of Black Dike Slack and Mardale Slack
• Round barrow on Whinny Hill, 270m south west of High Farm
• Round barrow on Newton Mulgrave Moor, 360m south east of Stang Howe
• Round barrow on Newton Mulgrave Moor, 170m east of Stang Howe
• Two round barrows E of Coopers Quarries
• Old Mulgrave Castle: an enclosure castle incorporated into an 18th century planned landscape
• Round barrow at Lady Cross, 730m south west of Dun Bogs
• Danby Beacon round barrow
• Round barrow on Newton Mulgrave Moor, 450m south west of Newton Brow
• Round barrow in Newton Mulgrave Woods, 740m south of Newton Brow
• Round barrow on Newton Mulgrave Moor, 620m east of Stang Howe
• Round barrow on Newton Mulgrave Moor, 510m south west of Newton Brow
• Cross base for standing cross in churchyard of All Saints Church, Easington
• Wayside cross known as Swarth Howe Cross, 500m north east of Moorcock
• Late prehistoric enclosed settlement and field system on Borrowby Moor, 360m south of Moor House Farm
• Cairnfield, including a standing stone, round barrow, round cairn, enclosed field and part of Cucket medieval deer park boundary, 360m north of Eden House
• Ring cairn on Lealholm Moor, 640m north east of South View Farm
• Round barrow on Dunsley Moor, 800m south west of Skelder Cottage
• Round barrow on Dunsley Moor, known as Swarth Howe
• High Bride Stones
• Round barrow on Dunsley Moor, 160m west of Skelder Cottage
• Sandsend alum house
• Alum works at Kettleness
• Two round barrows 1/4 mile (400m) NE of Horse Mire Head Farm
• Round barrow on Ugthorpe Moor, 200m south west of High Park Farm
• Alum quarries and works 800m north of Sandsend Bridge
• Low Bride Stones
• Pit alignment and three round barrows on Ugthorpe Moor, 500m north east of Wood Hill House
• Round barrow and gallows site known as Butter Howe
• St Hilda's holy well
• Boulby Alum Quarries and works
• Round barrow 180m west of Newton Brow
• Round barrow on Brockrigg, 400m east of Brockrigg Farm
• Two 'Flat Howes' round barrows, Sleights Moor
• Pit alignment and two round barrows on Ugthorpe Moor, 700m south west of High Park Farm
• Round barrow on Lealholm Rigg, 710m south west of Green Houses Farm
• Roman signal station at Goldsborough, 130m south east of Scratch Alley
• Black Hill wayside cross on Glaisdale Rigg
• Moated manor and medieval settlement, Easington
• Standing stone on Brockrigg known as Wade's Stone, 420m south east of Brockrigg Farm
• Bowl barrow known as Brown Rigg Howe on Beacon Hill, Danby, together with a searchlight emplacement upon it
• Round barrow on Newton Mulgrave Moor, 550m south of Newton Brow
• Middle Rigg round barrows and segmented embanked pit alignment
• Group of seventeen tumuli to the N of Greenlands Howe, on the east side of Sleights Moor
• Standing stone 470m north east of High Farm, known as Wade's Stone
• Pit alignment on Black Dike Moor, 800m south west of Nan Stone
• Long barrow on Newton Mulgrave Moor, 250m east of Birchdale House
• Wayside cross known as Stump Cross on Beacon Hill, Danby
• Round barrow on Newton Mulgrave Moor, 470m south west of Birchdale House
• Foss Castle: a motte and bailey, precursor to Old Mulgrave Castle
• Roman Fort on Lease Rigg
• Round barrow 330m south west of Newton Brow