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Little Ribston

Little Ribston is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England.

Little Ribston
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The place

Little Ribston is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. Little Ribston is located on the River Nidd, 4 miles (6.4 km) north of Wetherby and 3 miles (4.8 km) south-east of Knaresborough. The Ribston Pippin apple originated here when Sir Henry Goodricke planted the first seed brought from Normandy in the 18th century and a stump of a later tree is still preserved in Ribston park. There were several inns or licensed premises in the village in previous times, though none remain today. The nearest pub to Little Ribston is The Bay Horse in Kirk Deighton.

Little Ribston has two cricket teams in the Nidderdale league and Harrogate evening league. They are based in Ribston Park, Little Ribston, halfway between Knaresborough and Wetherby.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Little Ribston

7 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
    Spofforth Castle

    Spofforth Castle, in the village of Spofforth, North Yorkshire, England, was a fortified manor house ruined during the English Civil War, and now run by English Heritage as a tourist attraction.

    3.4 km · castle in Spofforth with Stockeld, 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.

    700 m · country house in Great Ribston with Walshford, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.1 km · Grade I listed church in Kirk Deighton, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    All Saints' Church, Spofforth

    All Saints Church is an Anglican church in the parish of Spofforth and Kirk Deighton in North Yorkshire, England.

    3.1 km · church in North Yorkshire, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Mary's Church

    St Mary's Church is the parish church of Goldsborough, a village near Harrogate in North Yorkshire, in England. The church appears to have first been built in the 12th century, from which period survive the south door and perhaps some walling at the ends of the nave.

    2.7 km · church in Goldsborough, North Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Railway Inn, Spofforth

    The Railway Inn is a former public house on Park Road in Spofforth, North Yorkshire, England.

    3.3 km · building in Harrogate , England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The Old Rectory

    The Old Rectory is a historic building in Spofforth, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The oldest parts of the house are believed to be 14th century, and to have originally formed part of the Hospital of Mary Magdalene.

    3.2 km · clergy house in Spofforth with Stockeld, 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 Little Ribston

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 20 km · Manchester (MAN), 90 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 118 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Little Ribston
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h · £10–13
  • Liverpool → Little Ribston
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £14–19
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Little Ribston
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Little Ribston

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 Little Ribston. 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

    298 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    330 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    359 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    366 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    381 km

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Around it

Next door to Little Ribston

Little Ribston is 22 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.