Thornborough Henges from Nosterfield Nature Reserve

The unique and important cluster of Neolithic monuments known as Thornborough Henges, lies on a raised plateau above the river Ure. Three huge circular henges – sometimes described as the ‘Stonehenge of the North’ – were built here about 4,500 years ago over an earlier monument. They remained important into the early Bronze Age, when burial mounds were constructed nearby. 

Nosterfield Nature Reserve is 150 acres of wet grassland and open water situated between the Rivers Ure and Swale.  It is generally regarded as North Yorkshire’s premier wetland grassland.