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<br/>There was once a ferry here linking to Stillingfleet, on the opposite bank. On Boxing Day 1833 the ferry sank whilst carrying Stilligfleet church choir and eleven people were drowned, mostly teenage girls and a disaster for a small village which is still remembered today. Subsequently the ferry, which took an oblique course across the river, was moved to a more direct course slightly further upstream and is now no more. The Ouse is tidal at this point and a navigation demanding some care; before the coming of railways, and indeed for many years after, it was a very busy commercial waterway.
©Gareth Foster
<br/>Acaster Selby is a small riverside village south of York and the Selby part of the name comes from a grange of Selby Abbey having been here before the dissolution. College Farm dates from before 1829 and is a fine building which is currently empty. There are two massive brick barns, one of similar date and one which appears earlier. A few hundred yards away is the site of the college, a pre-reformation school dissolved under the Chantries Act (as it also was one) and now represented by bumps in a field.
©Gareth Foster
Dist:0.6km north<br/>Now used for farmland, but the airfield is still fairly evident on the ground.
©DS Pugh
Dist:0.7km north<br/>Situated on the old airfield north of Acaster Selby.
©DS Pugh
Dist:1.0km south<br/>
©Bill Henderson
Dist:1.0km south<br/>Acaster Selby is a small village (19 houses) in the confluence of the rivers Ouse and Wharfe south of York and the church is an unspoilt and unaltered gem by Pearson of 1850 with a fifteenth century font reputedly originating from Kirkham Priory.
©Gareth Foster
Dist:1.1km west<br/>Situated off Daw Lane.
©DS Pugh
Dist:1.4km east<br/>
©Phil Catterall
Dist:1.5km northeast<br/>A public footpath runs alongside the perimeter road of the former Acaster Airfield, which is gradually being reclaimed for agricultural use. This stile is at a field boundary.
©Robert Neilson
Dist:1.6km southwest<br/>A dairy farm in the Vale of York.
©Jonathan Billinger
Dist:1.6km north<br/>Situated on the disused airfield north of Acaster Selby.
©DS Pugh
Dist:1.6km northwest<br/>Fields close to Appleton Roebuck.
©DS Pugh
Dist:1.6km northwest<br/>Farmland on the road out of Appleton Roebuck towards Acaster Malbis.
©DS Pugh
Dist:1.8km southeast<br/>
©Phil Catterall
Dist:1.8km east-southeast<br/>Taken from Stillingfleet Bridge.
©Sam Kelly

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