Places to explore near York

England's great walled cathedral city, the Minster rising over the timbered lean of the Shambles and a two-mile rampart above the Ouse.

0.1 km NE · North Yorkshire

Overhanging timbered street of the medieval butchers, one of Britain's best-preserved and most photographed.

0.1 km E

Vast Gothic cathedral, largest in northern Europe.

0.4 km N

Clifford's Tower, Henry III's four-lobed stone keep on William the Conqueror's castle mound in York.

0.4 km S

Britain's most complete medieval city walls, a two-mile rampart walk past bars, towers and battlements.

0.5 km NW

Semi-sunken 1960s monitoring post in a York suburb, where the Royal Observer Corps would have tracked nuclear fallout after an attack.

2.4 km W

Village-green inn with rooms near York, an olive gastropub pick.

11.2 km NW

A red-brick Baroque mansion of 1716, hung with 18th-century portraits from the National Portrait Gallery.

11.2 km NW

Gentle farmed hills and old estates between the Vale of York and the moors, easy walking and a great house

15.8 km NE

Hilltop village inn with rooms at Crayke, said to be the 'Grand Old Duke of York' hill.

19.1 km N

Baroque palace with dome, lakes and follies.

21.3 km NE

Millstone grit crags above a still lake, a 1760s garden Turner painted.

24.8 km W

Tiny, unaltered Edwardian pub on Fossgate, all etched glass and wood panelling.

0.1 km E

Reputedly haunted coaching inn opposite the Shambles, serving ale since 1503.

0.1 km E

York's river, tidal below Naburn, carrying the Vale of York's waters past the city walls toward the Humber.

0.2 km SW · North Yorkshire

Candlelit inn beside the Minster, on the spot where Guy Fawkes was born.

0.3 km NW

York's oldest licensed inn, hidden down a snickelway off Stonegate since the 17th century.

0.3 km NW

A National Trust place in North Yorkshire.

0.4 km N

Ten acres of botanic gardens on the Ouse around the ruins of St Mary's Abbey and the Yorkshire Museum.

0.6 km NW

A Victorian garden cemetery of 1837 with a Greek Revival chapel by James Pigott Pritchett.

1.2 km SE

A National Trust place in North Yorkshire.

2.6 km SW