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Cowthorpe

Cowthorpe is a village in the civil parish of Tockwith, in North Yorkshire, England.

Cowthorpe
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The place

Cowthorpe is a village in the civil parish of Tockwith, in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated 3 miles (4.8 km) north of Wetherby, 10 miles (16 km) east of Harrogate, 7 miles (11 km) from Knaresborough and 13.5 miles (21.7 km) from York.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Cowthorpe

6 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
    All Saints' Church, Kirk Deighton

    All Saints Church is an Anglican church in the parish of Spofforth and Kirk Deighton in North Yorkshire, England. The church dates from the 11th century and is Grade I listed.

    3.5 km · Grade I listed church in Kirk Deighton, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Ribston Hall

    Ribston Hall is a privately owned 17th-century country mansion situated on the banks of the River Nidd, at Great Ribston, near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

    3.8 km · country house in Great Ribston with Walshford, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    The Corn Mill On North Bank Of The River Nidd

    The Old Corn Mill is a historic building in Hunsingore, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The watermill lies on the north bank of the River Nidd and it was completed in 1809.

    600 m · mill building in Hunsingore, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St John the Baptist

    St John the Baptist's Church is the parish church of Hunsingore, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. There was a church in Hunsingore from the mediaeval period, which in 1848 was described as "an ancient structure, with a tower".

    1.1 km · church building in Hunsingore, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Michael's Church, Cowthorpe

    St Michael's Church is a redundant church in the village of Cowthorpe, North Yorkshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

    200 m · Grade I listed church in Tockwith, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of the Epiphany

    The Church of the Epiphany is an Anglican church in Tockwith, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. Until the mid-19th century, Tockwith was in the parish of St Helen's Church, Bilton-in-Ainsty.

    3.9 km · church building in Tockwith, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Cowthorpe

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 23 km · Manchester (MAN), 92 km · Newcastle (NCL), 121 km
Stations
Cattal railway station, 3.9 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Cowthorpe
    79 km · quickest by road, 2h · £10–13
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Cowthorpe
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £12–16
  • Liverpool → Cowthorpe
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £14–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cowthorpe

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 Cowthorpe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inP&O Ferries sail overnight to Hull from Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

From Wikivoyage: Yorkshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    302 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    334 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    362 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    365 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    383 km

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

Around it

Next door to Cowthorpe

Cowthorpe is 23 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.