Ravensworth is a Town in the county of North Yorkshire.
Ravensworth in North Yorkshire is located 7.7 km NW from Richmond - North Yorkshire.
Retail in Ravensworth
There are great places to visit near Ravensworth 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.
Ravensworth 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.
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 are some of Ravensworth best ruins to visit near Ravensworth.
Historic Monuments to visit near Ravensworth include Bolton Abbey, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains).
There are a number of hiking areas near Ravensworth including Deepdale, Cotterdale, Southerscales, Ingleton Waterfalls Trail, Swilla Glen, Baxenghyll Gorge, and Raven Ray.
The area around Ravensworth boasts some of the best villages including Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, West Burton, Bainbridge, Aysgarth, and Malham.
There are a several good rivers and streams in the Ravensworth area like Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton.
Ravensworth's best nearby towns can be found at Hawes, Skipton, Grassington, Richmond, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, and Settle.
The area around Ravensworth features a number of interesting caves including Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Gaping Gill, Janet's Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave.
Don't miss Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement's limestone pavements if visiting the area around Ravensworth.
There are a several good mountains in the area around Ravensworth like Ingleborough.
The area around Ravensworth boasts some of the best cities including 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 Ravensworth.
Addlebrough, Embsay Crag, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, and Sugar Loaf Hill are some of Ravensworth best hills to visit near Ravensworth.
The area around Ravensworth features a number of interesting geological features including Malham Cove, Grassington Lead Mines, and Brimham Rocks.
Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle are some of Ravensworth best castles to visit near Ravensworth.
The area close to Ravensworth boasts some of the best old mines including Grassington Lead Mines.
Places near Ravensworth feature a number of interesting country parks including Brimham Rocks.
The area around Ravensworth features a number of interesting parks 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 Ravensworth like Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden.
Ravensworth has some unmissable ancient sites nearby like Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave.
Ravensworth History
There are some historic monuments around Ravensworth:
- Easby Abbey Premonstratensian monastery: monastic precinct, cultivation terraces, water-management features and ancillary buildings
- Cup marked stone 620m south of Jenny's Plantation
- Whorlton suspension bridge
- Cup marked stone 495m south east of Jenny's Plantation
- Cup and ring marked stone 530m NNW of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
- Two moated sites, the site of a dovecote and further associated features 120m north west and 180m north of The Old Hall
- Packhorse bridge
- Cup and ring marked stone 435m south of Jenny's Plantation
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary east of Langdale Rush
- Cup and ring marked stone 650m SSE of Jenny's Plantation
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary 75m south west of Sandford House
- Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation, 365m east of Shooters Well
- Cup and ring marked stone 350m north west of north corner of Folly Plantation
- Ring cairn on Gayles Plantation, 390m ENE of Shooters Well
- Barforth Bridge
- Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation, 370m ENE of Shooters Well
- Remains of St Michael's Church, 50m north west of Dairy Bridge, Rokeby Park
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary running south from Olliver East for 550m
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary, 650m ENE of Park House
- Cup marked stone 370m NNW of north corner of Folly Plantation
- Cup and ring marked stone on Gayles Plantation 410m north of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
- Cup and ring marked stone 440m NNE of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
- Cup marked stone 525m SSW of Jenny's Plantation
- Roman fort and prehistoric enclosed settlement 400m west of Carkin Moor Farm
- Section of Scots Dike linear boundary north of Kirklands Farm
- Richmond Bridge
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary 150m ENE of Olliver
- Packhorse bridge
- Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation 370m ESE of Shooters Well
- Section of the Scots Dyke linear boundary 225m south of St Martin's Priory
- Ravensworth motte and bailey castle, water defence features, park pale and shrunken medieval village
- Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation, 360m ENE of Shooters Well
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary 600m south east of Park House
- Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation, 440m ENE of Shooters Well
- Medieval church site and churchyard cross, 10m south and 40m south east of St Michael's Church
- Cup marked stone 565m NNE of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
- Greta Bridge
- Marrick ore hearth lead smeltmill
- Cup and ring marked stone 415m NNW of Folly Plantation
- Medieval cross base known as Plague Stone, 750m WSW of High Scales
- Ring cairn on Gayles Moor
- Castle Steads slight univallate hillfort and associated outwork
- Cup marked stone 490m NNE of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
- Franciscan friary
- Summerhouse moated site and associated drainage channels, enclosure and field system
- Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation 490m ENE of Shooters Well
- Cup marked stone on Gayles Plantation, 360m east of Shooters Well
- Richmond Castle: eleventh to fourteenth century enclosure castle
- St Martin's Benedictine Priory, Richmond
- Cup marked stone 565m north of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
- Cup and ring marked stone 465m NNE of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
- Packhorse bridge across Aldbrough Beck, immediately south west of High Green
- Cup and ring marked stone 585m SSW of Jenny's Plantation
- St Lawrence's Chapel, manorial settlement remains and dovecote
- Cup marked stone 505m south east of Jenny's Plantation
- The Bargate, medieval gateway
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary and portion of field system 100m east of Whitefields Farm
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary 250m north of Langdale
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary 235m south of Stanwick Hall Reservoir
- Stanwick Late Iron Age oppidum, Iron Age and medieval settlement, early Christian church and sculpture and post-medieval emparkment
- Cairn, 545m ESE of Bragg House, Barningham Moor
- Cup marked stone 495m NNE of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
- 18th century copper mill 80m north west of Copper Mill Bridge
- Cup and ring marked stone 520m north east of the triangulation point on Feldom Rigg
- Cup marked stone 18m south of Stone Man Plantation
- How Hill large univallate hillfort
- Section of the Scots Dyke linear boundary 250m south east of St Martin's Priory
- Greta Bridge Roman fort, vicus and section of Roman road
- Section of Scots Dike linear boundary north west of High Merrybent
- Romano-British enclosed settlement 340m north east of East Applegarth at Whitcliffe Scar
- Section of Scots Dike linear boundary south of Kirklands Farm
- Cup marked stone 165m NNE of Folly Plantation
- Medieval settlement remains immediately south east of Hutton Hall
- Section of Scots Dyke linear boundary in Low Wood, Langdale