River Wharfe
The River Wharfe is a river in Yorkshire, England originating within the Yorkshire Dales National Park. For much of its middle course it is the county boundary between West Yorkshire and North Yorkshire.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Nun Appleton Priory and Cawood Castle.
Nun Appleton Priory
Historic house
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Nun Appleton Priory was a priory near Appleton Roebuck, North Yorkshire, England. It was founded as a nunnery c. 1150, by Eustace de Merch and his wife. It was dissolved by 1539, when the nuns were receiving pensions.
Cawood Castle
Castle
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Cawood Castle is a grade I listed building in Cawood, a village in North Yorkshire, England. 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.
St John’s Church, Acaster Selby
Church
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St John's Church is an Anglican church in Acaster Selby, a village south of York, in England. Until 1850, Acaster Selby fell within the parish of Stillingfleet, with a church on the opposite side of the River Ouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cawood and Bolton Percy.
Cawood
Village
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Cawood is a village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England that is notable as the location of the Cawood sword. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Cawood belonged to the Liberty of Cawood, Wistow and Otley.
Bolton Percy
Village
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Bolton Percy is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 305 in 115 households, reducing marginally to 304 at the 2011 census. Bolton Percy is situated 2½ miles west of River Wharfe.
Ulleskelf
Village
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Ulleskelf is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, four miles from Tadcaster on the River Wharfe. Its name comes from the Scandinavian personal name Úlfr, while skelf may be an Old English word meaning "a flat area", although it could be from the Old Scandinavian equivalent, 'skialf' as in several other English place names, e.g. Hunshelf, Wadshelf. Ulleskelf is situated 3 miles west of River Wharfe.
River Wharfe
- Type: Stream
- Description: river in the United Kingdom
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“River Wharfe” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Ríu Wharfe”
- Cebuano: “River Wharfe”
- Chinese: “Wharfe河”
- Czech: “Wharfe”
- Dutch: “Wharfe”
- Egyptian Arabic: “نهر وارف”
- French: “rivière Wharfe”
- French: “Wharfe”
- German: “River Wharfe”
- Hebrew: “נהר ווארף”
- Indonesian: “Sungai Wharfe”
- Irish: “Abhainn Wharfe”
- Japanese: “ホウォーフ川”
- Japanese: “ワーフ川”
- Lithuanian: “Vorfas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wharfe”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Wharfe”
- Norwegian: “Wharfe”
- Polish: “Wharfe”
- Portuguese: “Rio Wharfe”
- Russian: “Уорф”
- Serbian: “Ворф”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wharfe”
- Spanish: “Río Wharfe”
- Swahili: “Mto Wharfe”
- Swedish: “Wharfe”
- Welsh: “Afon Wharfe”
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Localities in the Area
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