Askham Bog

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

2.6 km E · North Yorkshire

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

3.5 km N

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

4.7 km NE

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

5 km NE

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

5.1 km NE · North Yorkshire

Vast Gothic cathedral, largest in northern Europe.

5.2 km NE