Escrick is a Village in the county of North Yorkshire.

Retail in Escrick

There are great places to visit near Escrick 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 some of Escrick best waterfalls to visit near Escrick.

Escrick'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.

Bolton Abbey, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains) are great places to visit near Escrick if you like historic monuments.

Deepdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Swilla Glen, Baxenghyll Gorge, and Raven Ray are great places to visit near Escrick if you like hiking areas.

Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, West Burton, Bainbridge, Aysgarth, and Malham are some of Escrick best villages to visit near Escrick.

Don't miss Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton's rivers and streams if visiting the area around Escrick.

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

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

The area around Escrick features a number of interesting limestone pavements including Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement.

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

Escrick has some unmissable cities nearby like York, and Ripon.

There are a number of historic buildings near Escrick including York Minster, Marton House, Norton Tower (ruin), Church of St Peter - Rylstone, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge.

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

The area around Escrick features a number of interesting geological features including Malham Cove, Grassington Lead Mines, and Brimham Rocks.

There are a number of castles near Escrick including Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle.

There are a number of old mines near to Escrick including Grassington Lead Mines.

There are a several good country parks in the area around Escrick like Brimham Rocks.

There are a number of parks near Escrick including Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Studley Royal Water Garden.

The area close to Escrick boasts some of the best gardens including Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden.

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

Escrick History

There are some historic monuments around Escrick:

• Cawood Castle and Castle Garth: residence of the medieval Archbishops of York and associated enclosure containing gardens, five fishponds and a quarry pit
• 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
• St Mary's Abbey
• The Abbot's Staithes
• Cold War period Royal Observer Corps Group Headquarters, Howe Hill
• York prebendary manor moated site, 300m north west of Hawthorn Farm
• Merchant's Hall, Fossgate
• World War II bombing decoy 500m east of Bland's Plantation
• Moated site and fishpond 140m south of St Helen's Church
• South angle tower of Roman fortress
• St Andrew's College and moat, 440m north east of College Farm
• Siwards How, south east of the water tower, Heslington Hill
• Round barrow on Skipwith Common, 810m south of Skipwith Church
• 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
• St Mary's Abbey precinct walls
• Kensbury moated site, fishpond and fragment of a medieval field system
• Lamel Hill (Anglo-Saxon tumulus)
• St George's medieval chapel 120m south of York Castle
• Standing tower and below ground remains of St Lawrence's Church and associated burial ground
• Kelfield moated site and fishpond, 180m north of Kelfield Church
• Round barrow on Skipwith Common, 830m south east of Adamson Farm
• 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
• Round barrow on Skipwith Common, 800m south east of Adamson Farm
• Danes Hills square barrow cemetery, 300m south of Adamson Farm
• Round barrow on Skipwith Common, 690m north west of Horseshoe Pond
• St Peter's Hospital, part of undercroft beneath the Theatre Royal
• Danes Hills square barrow cemetery on Crook Moor
• York Minster cathedral precinct: including Bootham Bar and the length of City Walls extending round the precinct up to Monk Bar