Cawood
Cawood is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England that is notable as the location of the Cawood sword.

Cawood is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England that is notable as the location of the Cawood sword.
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Worth seeing in and around Cawood
9 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.
- 01Cawood 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.
100 m · Grade I listed quadrangular castle in Cawood, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02All Saints' Church, Cawood
All Saints' Church is the parish church of Cawood, in North Yorkshire, England.
400 m · historic church in Cawood, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church 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.
2.6 km · historic church in Ryther cum Ossendyke, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04All Saints' Church, Wistow
All Saints' Church is the parish church of Wistow, a village north-west of Selby in North Yorkshire, in England. There has been a church on the site since at least the 12th century, but the oldest surviving parts of the current church are 13th century.
2.7 km · church in Wistow, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Church of St Helen
St Helen's Church is the parish church of Stillingfleet, in North Yorkshire, in England.
3.9 km · Grade I listed church, Selby, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 06The 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.
200 m · Grade II* listed house in Cawood, Selby, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Yew 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.
200 m · Grade II* listed house and cottage in Cawood, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Church 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.
3.3 km · church building in Acaster Selby, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Cawood Bridge
Cawood Bridge is a swing bridge which spans the Yorkshire River Ouse in North Yorkshire, England. Construction was authorised in 1870, with the formation of the Cawood Bridge Company.
200 m · swing bridge in North Yorkshire, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Cawood
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 35 km · Manchester (MAN), 93 km · East Midlands (EMA), 112 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Cawood83 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £10–13
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Cawood98 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £11–14
- Liverpool → Cawood131 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £14–18
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Cawood
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 Cawood. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextFor day trips use the bus or Park & Ride.
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Next door to Cawood
Cawood is 28 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Acaster Selbyvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK3.8 km
- Wistowvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, UK2.7 km
- Stillingfleetvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK3.9 km
- Kelfieldvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, UK2 km
- Ryther cum Ossendykecivil parish in Selby, North Yorkshire, England2.9 km