Walk 15 Useful contacts City of York Council Walks in York Public Rights of Way team: Tel: 01904 551550 ASKHAM RICHARD, Email:
[email protected] BILBROUGH & York Tourist Informatiion Tel: 01904 550099 ASKHAM BRYAN York Travel Line Tel: 01904 551400 is about half a mile from the Roman road Walk 15 which runs between York and Tadcaster. Being on a moraine about 150 feet above sea Askham Richard Via Bilborough, level, the village commands extensive views Copmanthorp and Askham Bryan over the flat vale of York. Distance: 6½ miles Time: 3 hours. Askham Byran is situated south west of York Stiles: 11 and is 1 mile from its neighbour Askham Gates: 4 Richard. St Nicholas’ Church in the Parking: Askham Richard, School Lane village is an ancient Norman Public Transport: Coastliner Buses to Church dating from the 12th Tadcaster Century. Recorded in the No.87. (Hutchinson’s Buses) Doomsday Book of 1086 the village has always been a traditional farming settlement. Askham Richard is situated within the York is thought to have derived from Ascam or The building of the York Outer Greenbelt about 7 miles south west of York off ascha possible meaning ‘enclosure of the ash- Ring Road significantly reduced the York – Leeds A64 Road. The land has been tree’. The largest building in the village is the flow of traffic through the village which occupied for over a thousand years and its Askham Grange with a distinctive tower and remains rural in character. name is thought to have been derived from Victorian and Edwardian architectural features.