Micklegate Bar
You can find Micklegate Bar, a fort, in York. Close by, within 5 km, are 39 more places to see. Worth the trip, York Minster is 900 m off.
Fort in York
Inside York
Micklegate Bar is inside York’s built-up area, with 39 more places to visit within 5 km. Towns near it ↓
Written from OpenStreetMap, Wikidata, the ONS built-up areas and Met Office 1991–2020 averages.
Warm months and wet ones
Afternoons in York peak at 18–22°C, June to September.
Micklegate Bar
Fort.
In York, inside the town’s built-up area.
- Type
- Fort
- Town
- in York
The area around Micklegate Bar
The orange dot is Micklegate Bar; the numbers are the places near it, as listed below.
© OpenStreetMap contributors · The dashed line is York’s built-up area. · ONS built-up area 2022
Towns that count Micklegate Bar
The most populous of the 8 is York, at 141,696. The town it is in comes first, then the others whose pages list it, nearest first.
York
Heslington
Nether Poppleton
Huntington
Compare the 8 towns
| Town | Where Micklegate Bar is | People | Places to visit |
|---|---|---|---|
| York | It’s in town | 141,696 | 46 |
| Heslington | 2.7 km southeast of it | 1,787 | 41 |
| Nether Poppleton | 2.8 km northwest of it | 727 | 38 |
| Huntington | 2.9 km northeast of it | 12,420 | 44 |
| Osbaldwick | 3.2 km east of it | 2,313 | 44 |
| Bishopthorpe | 3.4 km south of it | 3,333 | 40 |
| Upper Poppleton | 3.6 km northwest of it | 3,520 | 37 |
| Copmanthorpe | 4.7 km southwest of it | 3,671 | 9 |
After Micklegate Bar
Within 15 km you can add 4 museums, a church and a castle.
ChurchYork Minster900 m away2MuseumBig drawMuseumNational Railway Museum600 m away · 808K visitors a year3
Castle · English HeritageClifford's Tower700 m away4
MuseumYorkshire Museum700 m away · 164K visitors a year (2019)5
MuseumYork Castle Museum800 m away · 284K visitors a year (2013)6
FortYork city walls600 m away7
Art galleryYork Art Gallery800 m away8
MuseumJorvik Viking Centre700 m awayWithin 15 km, close and well known first. Numbers match the map.
Before visiting Micklegate Bar
Where is Micklegate Bar?
Micklegate Bar is in York, North Yorkshire, inside the town’s built-up area.
What is Micklegate Bar?
Fort.
When is the best time to visit Micklegate Bar?
June to September are the warmest months in York, with afternoon highs of 18–22°C (Met Office 1991–2020 averages).
What else is there to see near Micklegate Bar?
Within 15 km: York Minster (900 m), National Railway Museum (600 m), Clifford's Tower (700 m) and Yorkshire Museum (700 m).
Places: OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, Open Database Licence) and Wikidata (CC0), placed in the ONS 2022 built-up area (Open Government Licence v3.0). Visitor counts are the latest Wikidata gives, with their year.
Photos: each place’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (7)
- York Minster: MatzeTrier, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Clifford's Tower: Francis Place (1647-1728), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Yorkshire Museum: Tim Green from Bradford, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- York Castle Museum: Jitka Erbenová (cheva), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- York city walls: Jhsteel, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- York Art Gallery: Tilman2007, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jorvik Viking Centre: CambridgeBayWeather, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
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