Ellerton Abbey
Ellerton Abbey is a civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England.

Ellerton Abbey is a civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located on the River Swale in lower Swaledale, 6 miles (10 km) south-west of Richmond. The population of the parish was estimated at 20 in 2016. The parish consists of farmland, a few scattered houses and an area of moorland which is part of the army training area associated with Wathgill Camp. The parish includes the site of the deserted medieval village of Ellerton, not to be confused with the modern village of Ellerton-on-Swale 11 miles to the east, but there is no modern village in the civil parish.
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Worth seeing in and around Ellerton Abbey
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.
- 01Church of St Andrew
The Church of St Andrew, Grinton, is the parish church for the village of Grinton in North Yorkshire, England. The grade I listed structure has also been called The Cathedral of the Dales, and as the only parish church in Upper Swaledale, it was at the end of the Swaledale Corpse Way, where those who had died in the upper valley, were brought for burial.
3.5 km · Grade I listed church in Grinton, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Ellerton Priory
Ellerton Priory was a priory of Cistercian nuns in Swaledale in North Yorkshire, England. Its ruins lie in the civil parish of Ellerton Abbey.
1.5 km · priory in Ellerton Abbey, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Blackburn Hall
Blackburn Hall is a historic building in Grinton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The building lies on the north side of the churchyard of St Andrew's Church, Grinton.
3.5 km · house in Grinton, Richmondshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Grinton Smelt Mill
Grinton Smelt Mill is a ruined lead mining and processing site on Cogden Moor, south of Grinton in Swaledale, North Yorkshire, England. The site was built in its present form c. 1820 for the specific purpose of processing lead won by hushing and hydraulic mining.
2.3 km · lead working site in Grinton, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Grinton Bridge
Grinton Bridge is a historic bridge over the River Swale in Grinton, North Yorkshire, a village in England. There is a record of a bequest left in 1547, to fund the reconstruction of the bridge, and it is possible that the northern arch survives from this period.
3.6 km · bridge in Reeth, Fremington and Healaugh, Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Draycott Hall
Draycott Hall is a historic building in Fremington, North Yorkshire, a hamlet in England. The oldest part of the country house is the rear wing, which was built in 1730.
3.9 km · house in Reeth, Fremington and Healaugh, Richmondshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Ellerton Abbey
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 57 km · Newcastle (NCL), 76 km · Manchester (MAN), 115 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Ellerton Abbey67 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Ellerton Abbey70 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–11
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ellerton Abbey101 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £12–16
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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 Ellerton Abbey. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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- Fremingtonvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK3.9 km