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Osbaldwick

Osbaldwick is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of the City of York in North Yorkshire, England.

Osbaldwick
Osbaldwick · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Osbaldwick is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority of the City of York in North Yorkshire, England. Situated 2 miles (3.2 km) east of York,

Osbaldwick is nowadays generally considered one of York's suburbs, though parts of it retain its historic character.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Osbaldwick

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
    University of York

    The University of York is a collegiate public research university in York, England. Established in 1963, the university has expanded to more than thirty departments and centres, covering a wide range of subjects.

    1.7 km · university in York, North Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    York Minster

    York Minster, formally the Cathedral and Metropolitical Church of St Peter in York, is an Anglican cathedral in the city of York, North Yorkshire, England. The minster is the seat of the archbishop of York, the second-highest office of the Church of England, and is the mother church for the diocese of York and the province of York.

    3 km · cathedral of York, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    York Castle

    York Castle is a fortified complex in the city of York, England. It consists of a sequence of castles, prisons, law courts and other buildings, which were built over the last nine centuries on the north-west side of the River Foss.

    2.9 km · castle in York, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Eboracum

    Eboracum was a fort and later a city in the Roman province of Britannia. In its prime it was the largest town in northern Britannia and a provincial capital.

    2.9 km · archaeological site and Roman provincial capital on the site of York, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Yorkshire Museum

    The Yorkshire Museum is a museum in York, England. It was opened in 1830, and has five permanent collections, covering biology, geology, archaeology, numismatics and astronomy.

    3.4 km · Museum in York, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Anglican Diocese of York

    The Diocese of York is an administrative division of the Church of England, part of the Province of York. It covers the city of York, the eastern part of North Yorkshire, and most of the East Riding of Yorkshire.

    3 km · administrative division of the Church of England · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    York Art Gallery

    York Art Gallery is a public art gallery on Exhibition Square in York, England, with a collection of paintings from 14th-century to contemporary, prints, watercolours, drawings, and ceramics. It closed for major redevelopment in 2013, reopening in summer of 2015.

    3.3 km · Art gallery in York, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Bootham Crescent

    Bootham Crescent in York, England, was the home of York City Football Club and York City Knights rugby league club. With a capacity of 8,256, it was near the city centre, just over a mile from York railway station.

    3.6 km · sports stadium in York, England · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Jorvik Viking Centre

    Jorvik Viking Centre is a museum and visitor attraction in York, England, containing lifelike mannequins and life-size dioramas depicting Viking life in the city. Visitors are taken through the dioramas in 'time capsule' carriages equipped with speakers.

    2.9 km · museum in York, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    York Castle Museum

    The York Castle Museum is a museum located in York, North Yorkshire, England, on the site of York Castle, which was originally built by William the Conqueror in 1068. The museum itself was founded by John L. Kirk in 1938, and is housed in prison buildings which were built on the site of the castle in the 18th century, the debtors' prison and the female prison.

    2.8 km · museum of social and military history in York, England · 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.

Go there

Getting to Osbaldwick

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 42 km · Manchester (MAN), 106 km · East Midlands (EMA), 127 km
Stations
York railway station, 3.7 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Osbaldwick
    38 km · quickest by road, 58 min · £5–6
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Osbaldwick
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £11–14
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Osbaldwick
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 32m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Osbaldwick

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inApproach from Leeds using the A64, and from Hull (for ferries from Rotterdam) by the A1079.

From Wikivoyage: York, 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

    319 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    350 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    364 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    379 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    395 km

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

Around it

Next door to Osbaldwick

Osbaldwick is 38 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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