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Nidd

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

Nidd
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The place

Nidd is a small village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The population of the village taken at the 2011 census was 168. It is situated 3 miles north of Harrogate, 1.2 miles (2 km) east of Ripley on the B6165 Pateley Bridge to Knaresborough road and near the River Nidd. The village used to have a railway station on the Leeds to Northallerton Railway, but this was closed down on 18 June 1962.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Nidd

10 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
    Ripley Castle

    Ripley Castle is a Grade I listed 14th-century country house in Ripley, North Yorkshire, England, 3 miles north of Harrogate. The castle has been the seat of the Ingilby baronets for centuries.

    1.9 km · Grade I listed castle in Ripley, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Parish Church of St John

    St John's Church is the parish church of Bilton, a suburb of Harrogate in North Yorkshire. The church was constructed between 1851 and 1857, to a design by George Gilbert Scott.

    3.9 km · church in Bilton, North Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Nidd Viaduct Over River Nidd

    The Nidd Viaduct, also known as the Bilton Viaduct, is a former railway bridge in Bilton, a village in North Yorkshire, northern England. It crosses the River Nidd and its gorge.

    2.6 km · railway viaduct in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall

    The Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Killinghall, is an Anglican parish church in Killinghall, North Yorkshire, England. It was designed in 1879 by William Swinden Barber when the parish of Ripley was split to create the additional parish of Killinghall, and a new building was required to accommodate a growing congregation.

    2.9 km · church in North Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of All Saints, Ripley

    All Saints' Church is the parish church of Ripley, North Yorkshire, a village in England.

    1.8 km · church in North Yorkshire, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Market Cross

    Ripley Market Cross, also known as the Village Cross, is a historic structure in Ripley, North Yorkshire, a village in England. Ripley was granted a market charter in 1357, to hold a market every Monday.

    1.8 km · market cross in Ripley, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Star Cottage Star House

    The Boar's Head is a historic pub in Ripley, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The building was constructed in the early 19th century, as coaching inn named "The Star", with stables to the rear.

    1.7 km · house in Ripley, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Nidd Hall

    Nidd Hall was a 19th-century country house, now a hotel, in the village of Nidd, North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

    100 m · country house hotel in Nidd, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Brearton Chapel

    St John's Church is an Anglican church in Brearton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was commissioned by Thomas Duncombe in 1836, and designed by James Pigott Pritchett.

    2.2 km · chapel in Brearton, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Farnham Mires

    Farnham Mires is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, or SSSI, to the west of the village of Farnham, North Yorkshire, England. It consists of a spring-fed marshy fen or mire with reeds and sedge, and drier calcareous grassland containing a diverse range of flora.

    3.7 km · site of Special Scientific Interest in North Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Nidd

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 21 km · Manchester (MAN), 91 km · Newcastle (NCL), 111 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Nidd
    77 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £9–12
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Nidd
    104 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £11–14
  • Liverpool → Nidd
    118 km · quickest by road, 2h 56m · £13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Nidd

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 Nidd. 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

    287 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    319 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    347 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    373 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    382 km

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

Around it

Next door to Nidd

Nidd is 27 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Scottonvillage and civil parish near Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England3 km
  • Ripleyvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, UK1.7 km
  • Burton Leonardvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, UK4 km
  • Killinghallvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK2.7 km
  • Breartonvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK2.1 km
  • Biltonvillage in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, UK3.7 km