Wigginton is a Village in the county of North Yorkshire.

Retail in Wigginton

There are great places to visit near Wigginton 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.

Waterfalls to visit near Wigginton include Catrigg Force, Lockin Garth Force, Whitfield Gill Force, Slape Wath Waterfall, Mill Gill Force, Cotter Force, and Aysgill Force.

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 are great places to visit near Wigginton if you like ruins.

There are a number of historic monuments near Wigginton including Bolton Abbey, Culloden Tower, and Robin Hood's Well (Fountains).

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

Don't miss Pool-in-Wharfedale, Askrigg, Hardraw, Malham, West Burton, Bainbridge, and Aysgarth's villages if visiting the area around Wigginton.

Wigginton has some unmissable rivers and streams nearby like 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 Wigginton if you like towns.

Great Douk Cave, White Scar Cave, Yordas Cave, Janet's Cave, Gaping Gill, Horseshoe Cave, and Jubilee Cave are some of Wigginton best caves to visit near Wigginton.

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

Wigginton's best nearby geological features can be found at Malham Cove, and Brimham Rocks.

Mountains to visit near Wigginton include Ingleborough.

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

There are a number of historic buildings near Wigginton including York Minster, Culloden Tower, and Beggar’s Bridge.

Don't miss Addlebrough, Warrendale Knotts, Giggleswick Scar, Blua Crags, Sugar Loaf Hill, and Attermire Scar's hills if visiting the area around Wigginton.

Skipton Castle, Richmond Castle, and Bolton Castle are great places to visit near Wigginton if you like castles.

There are a number of country parks near to Wigginton including Brimham Rocks.

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

Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal Water Garden is one of Wigginton's best, nearby gardens to visit in Wigginton.

Schoolboys Tower, Jubilee Cave, and Victoria Cave are some of Wigginton best ancient sites to visit near Wigginton.

Wigginton History

There are some historic monuments around Wigginton:

• St Mary's Abbey
• Siwards How, south east of the water tower, Heslington Hill
• Roman camp on Bootham Stray, 450m north east of Moor Farm
• Nether Poppleton medieval moated site, fishponds and earthworks around and associated with St Everilda's Church
• World War II bombing decoy 500m east of Bland's Plantation
• South angle tower of Roman fortress
• Standing tower and below ground remains of St Lawrence's Church and associated burial ground
• Roman camp on Clifton Moor, 275m NNE of Moor Farm
• Icehouse 75m north west of Sutton Hall
• 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
• 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
• Augustinian nunnery known as Moxby Priory including mill and post Dissolution garden features
• Medieval stone town house known as The Norman House to the rear of Nos 48 and 50 Stonegate
• Moated site known as The Rush
• Merchant's Hall, Fossgate
• Fulford cross, 200m south west of the barracks
• Ringwork and bailey immediately south of St Helen and Holy Cross Church
• St George's medieval chapel 120m south of York Castle
• Cold War period Royal Observer Corps Group Headquarters, Howe Hill
• Sheriff Hutton quadrangular castle and early garden earthworks
• Deserted village of Marton in the Forest
• St Peter's Hospital, part of undercroft beneath the Theatre Royal
• Lamel Hill (Anglo-Saxon tumulus)
• Roman camp on Huntington South Moor, 300m east of Huntington Grange
• St Mary's Abbey precinct walls
• York Minster cathedral precinct: including Bootham Bar and the length of City Walls extending round the precinct up to Monk Bar