English Heritage sites near Ganton Parish
SCARBOROUGH CASTLE
8 miles from Ganton Parish
With its 3,000 year history, stunning location and panoramic views over the Yorkshire coastline, Scarborough Castle is one of the finest tourist attractions in the North.
WHARRAM PERCY DESERTED MEDIEVAL VILLAGE
11 miles from Ganton Parish
The most famous and intensively studied of Britain's 3,000 or so deserted medieval villages, Wharram Percy occupies a remote but attractive site in a beautiful Wolds valley.
BURTON AGNES MANOR HOUSE
11 miles from Ganton Parish
A medieval manor house interior, with a rare and well preserved Norman undercroft and a 15th-century roof, all encased in brick during the 17th and 18th centuries.
PICKERING CASTLE
12 miles from Ganton Parish
This splendid 13th century castle was used as a royal hunting lodge, holiday home and stud farm by a succession of medieval kings.
WHEELDALE ROMAN ROAD
17 miles from Ganton Parish
A mile-long stretch of enigmatic ancient road - probably Roman but possibly later or earlier - amid wild and beautiful moorland, still with its hard core and drainage ditches.
KIRKHAM PRIORY
17 miles from Ganton Parish
Beautifully placed between the city of York and the town of Malton, the riverside ruins of Kirkham Priory are set in the beautiful Derwent valley near the Yorkshire Wolds.
Churches in Ganton Parish
St Nicholas
Ganton
Scarborough
01723 448351
The present church dates from the 14th Century. Grade 11 listed
Stained glass windows by William Wailes of Newcastle and Carpronnier of Belgium
The South Chapel is the Legard chapel containing the tomb of Sir John Legard first Baronet who died in 1679 and several other descendants
Pubs in Ganton Parish
Greyhound Inn
Main Street, Ganton, YO12 4NX
(01944) 710116
thegantongreyhound.co.uk