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Upper Helmsley

Upper Helmsley is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, about seven miles east of York.

The place

Upper Helmsley is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, about seven miles east of York. The population taken at the 2011 Census was less than 100. Details are included in the civil parish of Gate Helmsley.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Upper Helmsley

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
    St John the Baptist

    St John the Baptist's Church is the parish church of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England. Until the mid 20th century, Stamford Bridge was in the parish of All Saints' Church, Catton.

    2.5 km · church in Stamford Bridge, East Yorkshire · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Brockfield Hall

    Brockfield Hall is a country house in Warthill, east of York in North Yorkshire, England.

    3.8 km · country house in Yorkshire, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary's Church

    St Mary's Church is the parish church of Gate Helmsley, a village east of York and west of Stamford Bridge, in North Yorkshire. The oldest parts of the church date from the 13th century, while the west tower was added in the 15th century.

    1.8 km · church in Gate Helmsley, North Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The Duke Of York

    The Duke of York is a historic public house in Gate Helmsley, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The pub was built in the mid 19th century, and was altered in the 20th century, work including the replacement of the roof.

    1.9 km · public house in Gate Helmsley, Ryedale, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Leonard's Church and cross base adjacent to St Mary's Church

    St Leonard's Church is a ruined chapel in Sand Hutton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in the 12th century, as a chapel of ease to St Botolph's Church, Bossall.

    1.6 km · church in Sand Hutton, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is the parish church of Sand Hutton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. St Leonard's Church, Sand Hutton was a chapel of ease in the parish of St Botolph's Church, Bossall.

    1.6 km · church building in Sand Hutton, Ryedale, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Stamford Bridge Railway Viaduct

    Stamford Bridge Viaduct is a disused railway crossing over the River Derwent on the border between the East Riding of Yorkshire and North Yorkshire, England. The viaduct used to carry the York–Beverley line between 1847 and 1965.

    2.1 km · bridge in Yorkshire, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints' Church is the parish church of Catton, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England. The church was built in the 12th century, from which period the former transept survives.

    3.1 km · church in Low Catton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Upper Helmsley

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 50 km · Manchester (MAN), 114 km · Newcastle (NCL), 125 km
Stations
Stamford Bridge railway station, 2.5 km · Warthill railway station, 2.9 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Upper Helmsley
    46 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £5–7
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Upper Helmsley
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £11–15
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Upper Helmsley
    116 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Upper Helmsley

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 Upper Helmsley. 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

    321 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    352 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    370 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    381 km
  5. 05
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    399 km

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

Around it

Next door to Upper Helmsley

Upper Helmsley is 46 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Stamford Bridgevillage and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK2.5 km
  • Holtbyvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Stockton-on-the-Forestvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Claxtonvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.2 km
  • Gate Helmsleyvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom1.6 km
  • Warthillvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK2.3 km