🏰 History & heritage
St Gregory's Minster and Kirkdale Cave
A Saxon church with the finest pre-Conquest sundial in England, beside a cave full of Ice Age hyenas.
Town or village
Photo: Jonathan Clitheroe , CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
🏰 History & heritage
🌿 Moors & nature
Easy
Dates TBC
Kirkbymoorside
Small market town on the southern edge with a Wednesday market and a fine main street
Kirkbymoorside is the quietest of the southern market towns, with a wide main street of Georgian houses, a market on Wednesdays, a couple of old coaching inns and a golf course on the moor above. It makes a less crowded base than Helmsley or Pickering and is closest to Hutton-le-Hole, Farndale and Rosedale.
Things to do around Kirkbymoorside
🏰 History & heritage
🌿 Moors & nature
Bransdale
The quietest dale on the moors, a National Trust estate with a restored watermill and a road that loops nowhere.
Walks from Kirkbymoorside
Easy
Kirkdale, St Gregory's Minster and Hodge Beck
A Saxon church, an Ice Age cave and a wooded valley whose stream vanishes underground.
Events in Kirkbymoorside
Sat 28 Nov 2026
Kirkbymoorside Christmas Market
Christmas market in the market town's broad main street
Dates TBC Tue 27 Jul 2027
Ryedale Show
The biggest agricultural show on the southern edge of the moors, with cattle, sheep, horses, show jumping and a huge produce tent.