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Eshton

Eshton is a small village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England.

Eshton
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The place

Eshton is a small village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. At the 2011 Census the population was less than 100 and is included in the civil parish of Flasby with Winterburn. In 2015, North Yorkshire County Council estimated the population to be 70. It is in the Yorkshire Dales and about 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Grassington.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Eshton

8 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
    Newfield Hall

    Newfield Hall is a former country house located 1 mile to the southeast of the village of Airton, North Yorkshire, England. It is now a hotel.

    3.1 km · building in North Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Andrew

    St Andrew's Church is the parish church of Gargrave, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was probably originally built in the 16th century, from which period the tower survives.

    2.2 km · church building in Gargrave, Craven, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Paget Hall

    Paget Hall is a historic building in Gargrave, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The house was built in the early 17th century, but was heavily restored in the 19th century, the work removing many details.

    2.4 km · house in Gargrave, Craven, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Parish Church of St Peter

    St Peter's Church is an Anglican church in Coniston Cold, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was designed in the Early English by George Webster, on land donated by James Braithwaite Garforth.

    3.4 km · church building in Coniston Cold, Craven, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Brockabank

    Brockabank is a historic building in Winterburn, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The manor of Brockabank was first recorded in 1188.

    800 m · building in Flasby with Winterburn, Craven, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Eshton Hall

    Eshton Hall is a historic building in Eshton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The country house was constructed between 1825 and 1827, for Mathew Wilson, replacing a Georgian house in the Palladian style.

    200 m · house in Eshton, Craven, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Winterburn Chapel

    Winterburn Chapel is a historic building in Winterburn, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. There was a mediaeval chapel in Winterburn, but it did not survive the English Reformation.

    2.5 km · chapel in Flasby with Winterburn, Craven, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Sharp Haw

    Sharp Haw is a hill on the southern edge of the Yorkshire Dales, located just within the National Park. Being the last outpost of the hills before the broad Aire valley, and with a sharp summit from many angles, it is prominent and easily recognisable from much of the area to the south.

    2.5 km · hill in North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Eshton

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 32 km · Manchester (MAN), 73 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 89 km
Stations
Gargrave railway station, 2.6 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Eshton
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £7–9
  • Liverpool → Eshton
    88 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £10–13
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Eshton
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £13–17
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Eshton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inOn Sunday May-Sep it connects with a minibus to Buckden and Hawes.

From Wikivoyage: Grassington, 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

    262 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    296 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    323 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    359 km
  5. 05
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    372 km

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

Around it

Next door to Eshton

Eshton is 32 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Gargravevillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, UK1.9 km
  • Coniston Coldvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Hettonvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK3.5 km
  • Bank Newtonhamlet and civil parish in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Cracoevillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Flasby with Winterburncivil parish in North Yorkshire, England, UK1.5 km