Maiden Castle, Yorkshire Dales National Park

Name: Maiden Castle
Address: Yorkshire Dales National Park, United Kingdom

#72 among attractions in Yorkshire Dales National Park

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Maiden Castle is a settlement in Grinton, North Yorkshire which probably dates from the Iron Age. It is listed as a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The name Maiden Castle is not unique to the site and occurs in several other places in Britain and probably means a "fortification that looks impregnable" or one that has never been taken in battle. ()

Coordinates: 54°22'42"N, 1°58'4"W

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Yorkshire Dales National Park United Kingdom

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Maiden Castle – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Bolton Castle, Ellerton Priory, Swaledale Museum, St Oswald's Church.

3.9 miS
Historic site with tours and a tearoom
Bolton Castle, Leyburn
101 min walk • Bolton Castle is a 14th-century castle located in Wensleydale, Yorkshire, England. The nearby village Castle Bolton takes its name from the castle. The castle is a Grade I listed building and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. The castle was damaged in the English Civil War, and “slighted” afterwards, but much of it survived.
3.6 miE
Monastery
Ellerton Priory, Yorkshire Dales
92 min walk • Ellerton Priory was a priory of Cistercian nuns in Swaledale in North Yorkshire, England. Its ruins lie in the civil parish of Ellerton Abbey.
1.3 miNE
Museum
Swaledale Museum, Yorkshire Dales National Park
34 min walk • Swaledale Museum is a local museum in the village of Reeth, near Richmond in North Yorkshire, England. It covers rural history including life and work in the local area of Swaledale and Arkengarthdale within the Yorkshire Dales National Park.
6.4 miSW
Church
St Oswald's Church, Yorkshire Dales National Park
163 min walk • St Oswald's Church is a Grade I listed parish church in the Church of England in Askrigg, North Yorkshire.
2.8 miE
Monastery
Marrick Priory, Yorkshire Dales National Park
72 min walk • Marrick Priory was a Benedictine nunnery in Richmondshire, North Yorkshire, England, established between 1140 and 1160 by Roger de Aske. The parish Church of the Virgin Mary and St. Andrew and 400 acres of local land also belonged to the priory, which thrived until the 16th century, in spite of the depredations of marauding Scots.
6.9 miSE
Church, Gothic architecture
Holy Trinity Church, Leyburn
175 min walk • Holy Trinity Church is a redundant Anglican church on Low Lane in the village of Wensley, North Yorkshire, England. The building is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building, and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.
4.9 miS
Church
St Mary
124 min walk • St Mary's Church, Redmire is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Redmire, North Yorkshire.
5.6 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Valley
Arkengarthdale, Yorkshire Dales National Park
144 min walk • Arkengarthdale is a dale, or valley, on the east side of the Pennines in North Yorkshire, England. Running roughly north-west to south-east, it is the valley of the Arkle Beck, and is the northernmost of the Yorkshire Dales.
2.2 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Cliff
Fremington Edge, Yorkshire Dales National Park
58 min walk • Fremington Edge is a 3-mile long wall of crags and scree slopes that is situated to the north of the village of Reeth in Swaledale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park, England.
4 miS
Church
St Oswald's Church, Yorkshire Dales National Park
101 min walk • St Oswald's Church, Castle Bolton is a Grade II* listed parish church in the Church of England in Castle Bolton, North Yorkshire.
1.5 miN
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Calver Hill, Yorkshire Dales National Park
38 min walk • Calver Hill is a fell in the Yorkshire Dales National Park in North Yorkshire, England. It is composed of limestone and is situated at grid reference NZ012003, near where the valleys of Swaledale and Arkengarthdale meet, the village of Reeth is located on its lower south-eastern...