North Yorkshire
Selby District
Wistow

Wistow

Wistow is a small village and civil parish just north of , , England. In the 2011 Census it had 1,333 residents; an increase from 2001 when there was 1,135.
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  • Type: Village with 1,260 residents
  • Description: village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, UK
  • Also known as: “Wistow, North Yorkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include All Saints’ Church, Wistow and Cawood Castle.

Church
Photo: Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
All Saints' Church is the parish church of Wistow, a village north-west of in North Yorkshire, in England. There has been a church on the site since at least the 12th century, but the oldest surviving parts of the current church are 13th century.

Castle
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is a grade I listed building in , a village in , . The surviving fifteenth-century structures formed part of a fortified medieval palace belonging to the Archbishops of York, which was dismantled in the aftermath of the English Civil War. is situated 2 miles northwest of Wistow.

Church
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is a former Benedictine abbey and current Anglican parish church in the town of , , England. It is a member of the Major Churches Network in England. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Wistow.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cawood and Selby.

Village
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is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England that is notable as the location of the sword. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, belonged to the Liberty of , Wistow and Otley. is situated 2 miles northwest of Wistow.

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is a market town in 14 miles south of York, with a population in 2024 of 20,000. Its main attraction is the abbey, with a stained glass window depicting the original "Stars and Stripes".

Village
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is a village in the civil parish of , in , England. It lies on the east bank of the River Ouse, opposite , within the Vale of York, a flat and low-lying landscape shaped by rivers and arable farming. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Wistow.

Wistow

Latitude
53.81332° or 53° 48′ 48″ north
Longitude
-1.10036° or 1° 6′ 1″ west
Population
1,260
Elevation
13 feet (4 metres)
Open location code
9C5WRV7X+8V
Open­Street­Map ID
node 21479567
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2633754
Wiki­data ID
Q2084588
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In Other Languages

From Bengali to Urdu—“Wistow” goes by many names.
  • Bengali: “উইস্টো”
  • Cebuano: “Wistow”
  • Chinese: “韋斯陶”
  • Chinese: “韦斯陶”
  • Dutch: “Wistow”
  • French: “Wistow”
  • German: “Wistow”
  • Gujarati: “વિસ્ટો”
  • Irish: “Wistow”
  • Italian: “Wistow (North Yorkshire)”
  • Italian: “Wistow”
  • Japanese: “ウィストウ”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಸ್ಟೋವ್”
  • Korean: “위스토”
  • Ladin: “Wistow (North Yorkshire)”
  • Ladin: “Wistow”
  • Lithuanian: “Vistovas”
  • Persian: “ویستو، یورک‌شر شمالی”
  • Polish: “Wistow”
  • Portuguese: “Wistow”
  • Russian: “Уистоу”
  • Spanish: “Wistow”
  • Swedish: “Wistow, North Yorkshire”
  • Swedish: “Wistow”
  • Tamil: “விஸ்டௌ”
  • Telugu: “విస్టో”
  • Turkish: “Wistow, North Yorkshire”
  • Urdu: “ویستوو”
  • “Wistow”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Wistow”. Photo: Gordon Kneale Brooke, CC BY-SA 2.0.