Ainthorpe
Ainthorpe is a village in the civil parish of Danby in the county of North Yorkshire, England.
Ainthorpe is a village in the civil parish of Danby in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated within the North York Moors National Park in the Esk Valley, a quarter of a mile south of Danby and 12 miles (19 km) west of Whitby.
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Worth seeing in and around Ainthorpe
4 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.
- 01Danby Castle
Danby Castle is a historic building in Danby, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The castle was first recorded in 1242, but it was in ruins by 1336, according to local tradition due to a fire and the reuse of its stone in constructing St Hilda's Church, Danby.
1.6 km · Grade I listed quadrangular castle in North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Duck Bridge
Duck Bridge is a late-medieval single-arch packhorse bridge crossing the River Esk at the eastern end of Eastern Lane, just south of the village of Danby in the North York Moors National Park, North Yorkshire, England. The bridge is designated as a Grade II* listed building and a Scheduled Monument due to its exceptional state of preservation and historical significance as one of the finest surviving medieval packhorse bridges in Northern England.
1.6 km · packhorse bridge in Danby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Hilda
St Hilda's Church is the parish church of Danby, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The church was probably first built in the 12th century, but it was entirely rebuilt in the early 13th century.
1.9 km · church in Danby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Church of St Michael And St George
St Michael and St George's Church is an Anglican church in Castleton, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The first church in Castleton was constructed in 1865, with funding from Viscountess Downe and Lydia Dawnay.
1.4 km · church building in Castleton, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ainthorpe
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 81 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 82 km · Manchester (MAN), 153 km
- Stations
- Danby railway station, 500 m · Castleton Moor railway station, 2.1 km
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Ainthorpe72 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £9–12
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Ainthorpe85 km · quickest by road, 2h 18m · £11–15
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ainthorpe139 km · quickest by road, 3h 1m · £17–23
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No local-transport research exists yet for Ainthorpe
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 Ainthorpe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundTown is walkable; see below for the funicular.
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