Sleights is a Village in the county of North Yorkshire.

Sleights postcode: YO22 5BU

Retail in Sleights

There are great places to visit near Sleights including some great waterfalls, ruins, historic monuments, hiking areas, villages, rivers and streams, towns, caves, limestone pavements, geological features, mountains, cities, historic buildings, hills, castles, 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 great places to visit near Sleights if you like waterfalls.

There are a several good ruins in the Sleights area like Bolton Abbey, Byland Abbey, Easby Abbey (ruin), Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), Trig Point on Warrendale Knotts, and Old Limekiln at Blua Crags.

Bolton Abbey, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains) are some of Sleights best historic monuments to visit near Sleights.

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

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

Sleights's best nearby rivers and streams can be found at Whitfield Beck, Mill Gill, Hardraw Beck, River Wharfe, and Walden Beck at West Burton.

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

The area around Sleights features a number of interesting caves including Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Janet's Cave, Gaping Gill, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave.

Limestone Pavements to visit near Sleights include Southerscales, Malham Cove, and Warrendale Knotts Limestone Pavement.

Sleights has some unmissable geological features nearby like Malham Cove, and Brimham Rocks.

Don't miss Ingleborough's mountains if visiting the area around Sleights.

Don't miss York, and Ripon's cities if visiting the area around Sleights.

There are a several good historic buildings in the Sleights area like York Minster, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge.

Addlebrough, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, Sugar Loaf Hill, and Attermire Scar are some of Sleights best hills to visit near Sleights.

Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle are some of Sleights best castles to visit near Sleights.

Brimham Rocks is one of Sleights's best, nearby country parks to visit in Sleights.

The area around Sleights boasts some of the best parks including Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden, Fountains Abbey (ruin), and Studley Royal Water Garden.

Gardens to visit near Sleights include Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden.

Ancient Sites to visit near Sleights include Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave.

Sleights History

There are some historic monuments around Sleights:

• Bowl barrow 710m north west of Thornfields
• Cairnfield 350m south west of Foulsike Farm
• Whitby Abbey: Saxon double-house, post-Conquest Benedictine monastery, C17 manor house and C14 cross.
• Standing stones forming a small stone circle on Standing Stones Rigg, 520m west of Ramsdale
• 'Greenlands Howe' round barrow, Sleights Moor
• Round barrow on Whinny Hill, 270m south west of High Farm
• Bowl barrow in north corner of a field 205m south of the Standing Stones on Standing Stones Rigg
• Round barrow on Goathland Moor, 240m west of Collinson Bield
• Simon Howe: a round cairn on Goathland Moor, two associated round barrows, a standing stone and a stone alignment
• Foster Howes bowl barrow (south) on Sneaton High Moor
• Round barrow on Dunsley Moor, known as Swarth Howe
• Round barrow on Dunsley Moor, 160m west of Skelder Cottage
• Ann's Cross wayside cross on bowl barrow 800m south east of Foster Howes
• Foster Howes bowl barrow (central) on Sneaton High Moor
• Alum works at Kettleness
• Wayside cross called Postgate Cross on Graystone Hills 700m NNE of Sneaton Corner
• Lady Cross wayside cross, north of the A171 and 20m west of the Barnby turn-off
• Group of seventeen tumuli to the N of Greenlands Howe, on the east side of Sleights Moor
• Low Bride Stones
• Bowl barrow 530m north west of Thornfields
• Saltwick Nab alum quarries
• Two round barrows 500m south west of Foulsike Farm
• Bowl barrow 455m north west of Thornfields
• Foster Howes bowl barrow (north) 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
• World War II bombing decoy, 500m north west of John Cross
• Hawsker Cross wayside cross, 100m east of Hawsker Hall Farm
• Two Howes: two round barrows on Goathland Moor
• Round barrow 690m south east of John Bond's Sheep House
• Round cairn on Skivick Crag, 380m south west of Wheeldale Lodge
• The Wishing Chair Cross cross base at junction of Stakesby Road and Westbourne Road
• Linear earthwork to the NW of the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe
• Two round barrows known as Thorn Key Howes, on Low Moor
• Two round barrows 1/4 mile (400m) NE of Horse Mire Head Farm
• 'Pen Howe' tumuli
• Bowl barrow on Low Moor 185m south of the Postgate Cross
• Round barrow on Cow Hill, 410m south west of Scratch Alley
• Round barrow on Derwent Head Rigg, 200m east of High Woof Howe
• York Cross wayside cross, 700m north east of Foster Howes on Sneaton High Moor
• Prehistoric cross dyke 980m west of Foulsike Farm including a standing stone known as Old Wife's Neck
• High Woof Howe round barrow at Derwent Head Rigg
• Bowl barrow 65m west of Standing Stones on Standing Stones Rigg
• Round barrow adjacent to the Whinstone Ridge on Goathland Moor, 600m SSW of Breckon Howe
• Round barrow 370m south of Thorn Keys Howes
• Round barrow known as Burn Howe
• Ash Holm alum works, 350m south east of Mulgrave Castle
• Bowl barrow 30m north of Lilla Cross
• Round barrow on Stony Rigg, 460m south of Greenlands Farm
• Brown Hill round cairn
• Round barrow 860m south west of Dun Bogs
• The Latter Gate Hills tumuli; the northern of the two, 200m ESE from the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe
• Widow Howe: two round barrows on Widow Howe Rigg
• Moated site at Low Laithes Farm, Whitby Laithes
• Standing stone on Brockrigg known as Wade's Stone, 420m south east of Brockrigg 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
• Fyling medieval deer park wall section
• Cairnfield on Howl Moor 510m south of Wheeldale Lodge, including an unenclosed hut circle settlement, field system and round burial cairns
• Roman signal station at Goldsborough, 130m south east of Scratch Alley
• Lilla Cross on Lilla Howe, Fylingdales Moor
• Allan Tofts cairnfield, field system, burial cairns and prehistoric rock art, immediately south of Morton Close
• Louven Howe round barrow
• Foss Castle: a motte and bailey, precursor to Old Mulgrave Castle
• Robbed Howe bowl barrow, 500m north of Robbed Howe Slacks on Sneaton High Moor
• Round barrow on Derwent Head Rigg, 145m east of High Woof Howe
• Round barrow and two standing stones in Hutton Mulgrave Plantation, 115m west of Swarth Howe
• Alum quarries and works 800m north of Sandsend Bridge
• Two 'Flat Howes' round barrows, Sleights Moor
• Enclosure on In Moor, Struntry Carr
• Standing stone 470m north east of High Farm, known as Wade's Stone
• Roman Fort on Lease Rigg
• Sandsend alum house
• Linear earthwork south east of the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe
• 'Breckon Howe' round barrow, Sleights Moor
• Round barrow on Brockrigg, 400m east of Brockrigg Farm
• High Bride Stones
• Round barrow and gallows site known as Butter Howe
• Cairnfield, field system and ring cairn 610m south east of Foulsike Farm
• Round barrow on Goathland Moor, 360m west of Collinson Bield
• Wayside cross known as Swarth Howe Cross, 500m north east of Moorcock
• Round barrow on Dunsley Moor, 800m south west of Skelder Cottage
• Old Mulgrave Castle: an enclosure castle incorporated into an 18th century planned landscape
• Round barrow at Lady Cross, 730m south west of Dun Bogs
• Two round barrows E of Coopers Quarries
• John Cross boundary cross on Shooting House Rigg immediately east of Wilson's Shooting House
• Bowl barrow 825m north of the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe
• Round barrow 300m south east of Thorn Key Howes
• Bowl barrow 300m north east of the junction of the A171 and the road leading to Fylingthorpe