Retail in Sandsend
There are great places to visit near Sandsend 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 Sandsend.
Sandsend has some unmissable ruins nearby like 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 several good historic monuments in the Sandsend area like 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 Sandsend if you like hiking areas.
There are a number of villages near Sandsend including Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, West Burton, Bainbridge, Aysgarth, and Malham.
The area around Sandsend boasts some of the best rivers and streams including Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton.
Hawes, Skipton, Grassington, Richmond, Middlesbrough, Harrogate, and Settle are great places to visit near Sandsend if you like towns.
Caves to visit near Sandsend include Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Gaping Gill, Janet's Cave, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave.
Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement are some of Sandsend best limestone pavements to visit near Sandsend.
There are a number of mountains near to Sandsend including Ingleborough.
The area around Sandsend features a number of interesting cities including York, and Ripon.
There are a several good historic buildings in the Sandsend area like York Minster, Marton House, Norton Tower (ruin), Church of St Peter - Rylstone, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge.
Addlebrough, Embsay Crag, Rylstone Crag and Rylstone Cross, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, and Sugar Loaf Hill are some of Sandsend best hills to visit near Sandsend.
Malham Cove, Grassington Lead Mines, and Brimham Rocks are some of Sandsend best geological features to visit near Sandsend.
The area around Sandsend features a number of interesting castles including Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle.
There are a number of old mines near to Sandsend including Grassington Lead Mines.
There are a number of country parks near to Sandsend including Brimham Rocks.
Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Studley Royal Water Garden are great places to visit near Sandsend if you like parks.
Places near Sandsend feature a number of interesting gardens including Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden.
Sandsend's best nearby ancient sites can be found at Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave.
Sandsend History
There are some historic monuments around Sandsend:
- Cairnfield, including a standing stone, round barrow, round cairn, enclosed field and part of Cucket medieval deer park boundary, 360m north of Eden House
- Round barrow on Stony Rigg, 460m south of Greenlands Farm
- Roman signal station at Goldsborough, 130m south east of Scratch Alley
- Prehistoric cross dyke 980m west of Foulsike Farm including a standing stone known as Old Wife's Neck
- The Wishing Chair Cross cross base at junction of Stakesby Road and Westbourne Road
- Wayside cross known as Swarth Howe Cross, 500m north east of Moorcock
- Round barrow at Lady Cross, 730m south west of Dun Bogs
- Allan Tofts cairnfield, field system, burial cairns and prehistoric rock art, immediately south of Morton Close
- Round barrow adjacent to the Whinstone Ridge on Goathland Moor, 600m SSW of Breckon Howe
- Lady Cross wayside cross, north of the A171 and 20m west of the Barnby turn-off
- Bowl barrow 300m north east of the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe
- Two round barrows E of Coopers Quarries
- Bowl barrow 710m north west of Thornfields
- High Bride Stones
- 'Greenlands Howe' round barrow, Sleights Moor
- Hawsker Cross wayside cross, 100m east of Hawsker Hall Farm
- 'Breckon Howe' round barrow, Sleights Moor
- The Latter Gate Hills tumuli; the northern of the two, 200m ESE from the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe
- Bowl barrow 825m north of the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe
- Round barrow on Cow Hill, 410m south west of Scratch Alley
- Enclosure on In Moor, Struntry Carr
- Alum works at Kettleness
- Old Mulgrave Castle: an enclosure castle incorporated into an 18th century planned landscape
- Bowl barrow on Low Moor 185m south of the Postgate Cross
- Cairnfield 350m south west of Foulsike Farm
- Saltwick Nab alum quarries
- Round barrow 300m south east of Thorn Key Howes
- Robbed Howe bowl barrow, 500m north of Robbed Howe Slacks on Sneaton High Moor
- The Latter Gate Hills tumuli; the southern of the two, 240m south east from the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe
- Round barrow on Brockrigg, 400m east of Brockrigg Farm
- Standing stones forming a small stone circle on Standing Stones Rigg, 520m west of Ramsdale
- Round barrow on Dunsley Moor, 800m south west of Skelder Cottage
- Bowl barrow 65m west of Standing Stones on Standing Stones Rigg
- Round barrow and gallows site known as Butter Howe
- Round barrow 370m south of Thorn Keys Howes
- Two round barrows 1/4 mile (400m) NE of Horse Mire Head Farm
- Foss Castle: a motte and bailey, precursor to Old Mulgrave Castle
- Group of seventeen tumuli to the N of Greenlands Howe, on the east side of Sleights Moor
- John Cross boundary cross on Shooting House Rigg immediately east of Wilson's Shooting House
- Linear earthwork to the NW of the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe
- Moated site at Low Laithes Farm, Whitby Laithes
- Linear earthwork south east of the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe
- Low Bride Stones
- Round barrow on Dunsley Moor, known as Swarth Howe
- Two round barrows 500m south west of Foulsike Farm
- Standing stone on Brockrigg known as Wade's Stone, 420m south east of Brockrigg Farm
- Round barrow on Dunsley Moor, 160m west of Skelder Cottage
- Whitby Abbey: Saxon double-house, post-Conquest Benedictine monastery, C17 manor house and C14 cross.
- Two 'Flat Howes' round barrows, Sleights Moor
- Two round barrows known as Thorn Key Howes, on Low Moor
- Wayside cross called Postgate Cross on Graystone Hills 700m NNE of Sneaton Corner
- Round barrow 860m south west of Dun Bogs
- Cairnfield, field system and ring cairn 610m south east of Foulsike Farm
- Bowl barrow in north corner of a field 205m south of the Standing Stones on Standing Stones Rigg
- 'Pen Howe' tumuli
- Sandsend alum house
- Standing stone 470m north east of High Farm, known as Wade's Stone
- Round barrow and two standing stones in Hutton Mulgrave Plantation, 115m west of Swarth Howe
- World War II bombing decoy, 500m north west of John Cross
- Round barrow on Whinny Hill, 270m south west of High Farm
- Alum quarries and works 800m north of Sandsend Bridge
- Roman Fort on Lease Rigg
- Cairns on In Moor, Struntry Carr
- Ash Holm alum works, 350m south east of Mulgrave Castle
