Towton
Towton is a small village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: John Davidson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Village with 214 residents
- Description: village in North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Towton, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dacre’s Cross and Ulleskelf railway station.
Dacre’s Cross
Wayside cross
Photo: Chemical Engineer, Public domain.
Dacre’s Cross is a wayside cross.
Ulleskelf railway station
Railway station
Photo: Dupont Circle, Public domain.
Ulleskelf railway station in Ulleskelf, North Yorkshire, England, is 8.75 miles south of York. Ulleskelf railway station is situated 2 miles east of Towton.
St John the Baptist’s Church, Kirkby Wharfe
Church
Photo: Paul Glazzard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
St John the Baptist's Church is the parish church of Kirkby Wharfe, a village south-west of Tadcaster, in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was first built in the late 12th century, with the nave and parts of the south door surviving from this period. St John the Baptist’s Church, Kirkby Wharfe is situated 1½ miles northeast of Towton.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stutton and Kirkby Wharfe.
Stutton
Hamlet
Photo: Paul Glazzard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stutton is a small village in the county of North Yorkshire, England, a mile south-west of Tadcaster. It lies in the valley of the Cock Beck which discharges into the River Wharfe one mile to the east of the village.
Kirkby Wharfe
Hamlet
Photo: Paul Glazzard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kirkby Wharfe is a village 1.9 miles south of Tadcaster, in North Yorkshire, England. The village is in the civil parish of Kirkby Wharfe with North Milford. Kirkby Wharfe is situated 1½ miles northeast of Towton.
Saxton
Village
Saxton is a village in the civil parish of Saxton with Scarthingwell, in North Yorkshire, England, 14 miles south-west of York and 12 miles east of Leeds. Saxton is situated 2 miles south of Towton.
Towton
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Towton, Selby District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.84983° or 53° 50′ 59″ northLongitude
-1.26347° or 1° 15′ 49″ westPopulation
214Elevation
105 feet (32 metres)Open location code
9C5WRPXP+WJOpenStreetMap ID
node 1506611358OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2635584Wikidata ID
Q1847094
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Towton” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “توتون”
- Catalan: “Towton”
- Cebuano: “Towton (parokya)”
- Cebuano: “Towton”
- Chinese: “陶頓”
- Chinese: “陶顿”
- Dutch: “Towton”
- Egyptian Arabic: “توتون”
- French: “Towton”
- Irish: “Towton”
- Italian: “Towton”
- Ladin: “Towton”
- Macedonian: “Таутон”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Towton”
- Norwegian: “Towton”
- Persian: “تاوتون”
- Polish: “Towton”
- Portuguese: “Towton”
- South Azerbaijani: “تاوتون”
- Swedish: “Towton (parish)”
- Swedish: “Towton”
- Turkish: “Towton”
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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 “Towton”. Photo: John Davidson, CC BY-SA 2.0.