The Top 8 Natural Monuments around Thixendale
Thixendale’s landscape is a beautiful place to explore — something that you can best experience by visiting one of our 8
beautiful natural monuments around Thixendale. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
beautiful natural monuments around Thixendale. To help you find the one for, you can see all the details you need to explore the best natural monuments, and better plan your next outdoor adventure!
Last updated: December 12, 2025
Pretty Wood, King's Oak and the Four Faces Monument
Highlight (Segment) • Natural Monument
It's a magnificent experience walking in Pretty Wood, which is very appropriately named - it's very pretty here!
On your way, you will pass the ancient tree, King's Oak, which …
On your way, you will pass the ancient tree, King's Oak, which …
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Millington Wood Nature Reserve
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Historic woodland dating back to 1086, Millington Wood is a Local Nature Reserve with distinctive chalk landscape. The woods are a delight in every season: bluebells and ramsons carpet the …
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Four Faces Folly
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The Four Faces folly on the Castle Howard estate was erected before 1727 and made by sculptor Nicholas Hawksmoor for Charles Howard, 3rd Earl of Carlisle.
It's a Grade I listed monument.
It's a Grade I listed monument.
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Bench With a View of Horse Dale
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Probably the largest and most spectacular dale in the Yorkshire Wolds and simply unmissable. Emerging at the top of the dale when travelling north along the public footpath past Northfield …
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Yorkshire Wolds Dew Ponds
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One of several dew points found dotted throughout the Wolds, this one comes complete with bench and a very fine view. Traditionally constructed for livestock in areas like the Wolds where chalk landscape cannot retain surface water. ywt.org.uk/wolds-dew-ponds
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