Skipton

Worth seeing in and around Skipton

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
   Skipton Castle

   Skipton Castle is a well-preserved Grade I Listed medieval castle in Skipton, North Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1090 by Robert de Romille, a Norman baron and is now a tourist attraction and private residence.

   200 m · Grade I listed historic house museum in Skipton, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Holy Trinity Church

   Holy Trinity Church is in High Street, Skipton, North Yorkshire, England. Medieval in origin, the church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building.

   100 m · church in Skipton, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Thanet Canal

   The Thanet Canal, also known as the Springs Branch, is a short branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, in North Yorkshire, England. It leaves the main canal in Skipton, and runs to some loading wharfs near Skipton Castle, which were used to load limestone from local quarries into boats for onward shipment.

   100 m · branch of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Broughton Hall

   Broughton Hall is a Georgian country house in Broughton, Craven, North Yorkshire, England, centrally located in 3,000 acres of landscaped grounds.

   4.8 km · Grade I listed building in Craven, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Kildwick Hall with kitchen block to rear

   Kildwick Hall is a historic building in Kildwick, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The manor house was probably built in about 1650 for Henry Currer.

   5.9 km · Grade II* listed house in Kildwick, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Old Corn Mill

   The Old Corn Mill is a historic building in Bradley, North Yorkshire, a village in England. A watermill was first recorded in Bradley in 1314, although it is unknown whether this was on the site of the current mill.

   3.4 km · Grade II listed mill building in Low Bradley, Craven, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   Craven Museum

   Craven Museum & Gallery is a museum located in the town of Skipton, North Yorkshire, England, in Skipton Town Hall. The museum holds a collection of local artefacts that depict life in Craven from the prehistoric times to the modern day.

   100 m · museum in Skipton, England, United Kingdom · 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.

   4.6 km · hill in North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
9. 09
   Norton Tower

   Norton Tower is a ruined building near Rylstone, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was constructed as a hunting lodge with space for banqueting, probably in about 1540.

   5.4 km · building in Rylstone, Craven, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
10. 10
    Quaker Meeting House

    Skipton Quaker Meeting House is a historic religious building in Skipton, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. There were already Quakers in Skipton when George Fox visited in 1658, and around this time, yearly meetings for the north of England were held in the town.

    300 m · Quaker meeting house in Skipton, Craven, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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What Wikivoyage says to see

1. 01
   Skipton Castle

   The Bailey BD23 1AW, info@skiptoncastle.co.uk.

2. 02
   Embsay & Bolton Abbey Railway

   Bolton Abbey BD23 6AF, enquiries@embsayboltonabbeyrailway.org.uk.

3. 03
   Bolton Abbey

   Bolton Abbey BD23 6EX, reception@boltonabbey.com.

4. 04
   Hesketh Farm Park

   Bolton Abbey BD23 6HA, info@heskethfarmpark.co.uk.

5. 05
   Barden Tower is the shell

From Wikivoyage: Skipton, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Things to do

Boat trips: Skipton Boat Trips sail from the basin from March to December, for 1-5 hours. Narrowboat hire for day-trips and canal holidays can be arranged via Pennine Cruisers or Canal Trips both at the basin. Walk: lots of choice. The best walking map is OS Outdoor Leisure Map 10 (Yorkshire Dales South, yellow covers, 1:25,000). Skipton teeters on the southern margin of this map, but it covers the nearby dales.

From Wikivoyage: Skipton, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Where to eat

Bean Loved is a coffee shop at

From Wikivoyage: Skipton, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Getting to Skipton

Airports

Leeds Bradford (LBA), 26 km · Manchester (MAN), 70 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 89 km

Stations

Cononley railway station, 5 km · Skipton railway station, 800 m · Embsay railway station, 2.2 km · Skipton bus station, 300 m · Holywell Halt, 4 km

• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Skipton

  55 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £7–9
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• Liverpool → Skipton

  88 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £10–13
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• Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Skipton

  115 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £14–19
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No local-transport research exists yet for Skipton

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

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