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Acaster Selby

Acaster Selby is a village in the county of North Yorkshire, England.

The place

Acaster Selby is a village in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is part of the joint civil parish with Appleton Roebuck. It is situated about 6 miles (9.7 km) south from York, on the west back of the River Ouse; near the opposite bank is the settlement of Stillingfleet, and 1.3 miles (2.1 km) to the north-west is Appleton Roebuck.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Acaster Selby

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Cawood Castle

    Cawood Castle is a grade I listed building in Cawood, a village in North Yorkshire, England. The surviving fifteenth-century structures formed part of a fortified medieval palace belonging to the Archbishops of York, which was dismantled in the aftermath of the English Civil War.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed quadrangular castle in Cawood, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Moreby Hall

    Moreby Hall is a Grade II*-listed early 19th-century manor house and estate in Stillingfleet, North Yorkshire, England, on the River Ouse. The manor was designed by architect Anthony Salvin for Henry Preston, the High Sheriff of Yorkshire, in 1828.

    2.9 km · country house in North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    All Saints' Church, Cawood

    All Saints' Church is the parish church of Cawood, in North Yorkshire, England.

    3.6 km · historic church in Cawood, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints' Church is the parish church of Ryther cum Ossendyke, a village north-west of Selby in Yorkshire, in England. The church was originally built around the time of the Norman Conquest, and it was recorded in the Domesday Book.

    2.7 km · historic church in Ryther cum Ossendyke, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bell Hall

    Bell Hall is a grade I listed building, in Naburn, in the rural southern part of the city of York, in England. The house was built in 1680 for John Hewley, in pink-orange brick, with stone dressings, a rendered basement, and a slate roof.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed building in Naburn, York, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Helen

    St Helen's Church is the parish church of Stillingfleet, in North Yorkshire, in England.

    1.9 km · Grade I listed church, Selby, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The Grange

    The Grange is a historic building in Cawood, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was constructed in the 16th century, for the Nicholson family, who held offices under the Archbishop of York.

    3.9 km · Grade II* listed house in Cawood, Selby, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Yew Tree House and Yew Tree Cottage

    Yew Tree House is a historic building in Cawood, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The house was originally built in the mid to late 17th century.

    3.7 km · Grade II* listed house and cottage in Cawood, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St John

    St John's Church is an Anglican church in Acaster Selby, a village south of York, in England. Until 1850, Acaster Selby fell within the parish of Stillingfleet, with a church on the opposite side of the River Ouse.

    400 m · church building in Acaster Selby, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Acaster South Ings

    Acaster South Ings is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, or SSSI, near York, England. It consists of two alluvial flood-meadows, and was designated in 1988 because it supports diverse fauna and flora, some of which is rare in the Vale of York area.

    3.1 km · Site of Special Scientific Interest in North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Acaster Selby

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 35 km · Manchester (MAN), 95 km · East Midlands (EMA), 116 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Acaster Selby
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £10–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Acaster Selby
    101 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £12–16
  • Liverpool → Acaster Selby
    132 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Acaster Selby

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Acaster Selby. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextFor day trips use the bus or Park & Ride.

From Wikivoyage: Tadcaster, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    320 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    352 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    354 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    381 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    383 km

If you know how people move in Acaster Selby – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Acaster Selby

Acaster Selby is 29 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.