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Worth seeing in and around Danby

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.

  1. 01
    Danby 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.

    1.5 km · Grade I listed quadrangular castle in North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Duck 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.

    1.4 km · packhorse bridge in Danby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church 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.

    2.4 km · church in Danby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church 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.

    1.7 km · church building in Castleton, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Danby

Airports
Newcastle (NCL), 81 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 83 km · Manchester (MAN), 153 km
Stations
Danby railway station, 0 m · Castleton Moor railway station, 2.3 km
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Danby
    72 km · quickest by road, 1h 58m · £9–12
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Danby
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £11–15
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Danby
    140 km · quickest by road, 3h 3m · £17–23
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Danby

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundTown is walkable; see below for the funicular.

From Wikivoyage: Saltburn-by-the-Sea, 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

    296 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    325 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    354 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    408 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    421 km

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

Around it

Next door to Danby

  • Castletonvillage in North Yorkshire, UK1.9 km
  • Ainthorpevillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK2.7 km
  • Houlsykevillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK3.8 km