Burnsall: what to know before moving day
Burnsall has 19 listed buildings, so plenty of the homes are old stone ones. Riverside, Rose Cottage, Skuff View and Wharfe Gate are 17th-century houses; Colton House and The Grange are one house of 1723 divided into two; Howgill House and Ivy Cottage are early 19th century. The Red Lion Hotel is an 18th-century inn extended in the 19th century. With mullioned windows and old stairs, check the width of the way in before a big piece goes on the list.
St Wilfrid's Church, listed at Grade I, is entered from the main road through a lychgate, and the village primary school is in the old grammar school building of 1602, founded by William Craven of Appletreewick. The village cricket pitch sits below Burnsall Fell and is half enclosed by the river. Burnsall is a centre for walking and weddings, and the August feast day games draw a crowd, so a quiet weekday is often the easier choice for a van on the village roads.
How the van gets to Burnsall
The B6160, which starts at Addingham, comes up the valley and is named Fell Road as it passes the village. Burnsall Bridge, five stone arches built in 1884, takes the lane over the Wharfe, and on the far side Cross Hill climbs to Hartlington, under a mile away. From Bradford, either go by Skipton and the B6265 to Hebden, then Mill Lane south past Hartlington, or come up the B6160 from lower Wharfedale.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 45 to 60 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Services for Burnsall
Each service below links to its Skipton page, which covers how the job works in and around Skipton.
Burnsall: questions before you book
Can the van cross Burnsall Bridge?
Yes, the bridge carries the road across the Wharfe towards Hartlington; it is the five-arched bridge the Dales Way also crosses. Tell us which side of the river your house is on, since the approach differs.
Which houses count as Burnsall?
The civil parish of Burnsall is the village and the land round it. The old parish of Burnsall was much bigger, taking in Appletreewick, Cracoe, Hartlington, Hetton, Rylstone and Thorpe until they became separate civil parishes in 1866, so older records can be confusing. Use the postcode.
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): BD23 6BU is in Wharfedale ward, North Yorkshire, parish of Burnsall, inside the Yorkshire Dales national park
- Burnsall (Wikipedia): village on the Wharfe about 2 miles south-east of Grassington, national park, population 110 in 2011, the historic parish and its townships separated in 1866, St Wilfrid's Church Grade I with lychgate from the main road, primary school in the 1602 grammar school of William Craven, five-arched bridge on the Dales Way, walking and weddings, August feast day games, cricket pitch below Burnsall Fell
- Listed buildings in Burnsall (Wikipedia, from the National Heritage List): 19 listed buildings, Riverside, Rose Cottage, Skuff View, Wharfe Gate, Colton House and The Grange 1723, Howgill House, Ivy Cottage, Red Lion Hotel, Burnsall Bridge of 1884 with five arches
- Hebden (Wikipedia): Main Street continues south as Mill Lane towards the Wharfe, Hartlington and Burnsall
- Hartlington (Wikipedia): under a mile east of Burnsall, reached by going down Cross Hill
- B roads in Zone 6 (Wikipedia): the B6160 runs from Addingham to Aysgarth; the B6265 from Skipton to Green Hammerton
- OpenStreetMap map view (checked 2026-09-28): Fell Road (B6160), Burnsall Bridge, Cross Hill, Church Lane, Back Lane, Skuff Road, Burnsall Village Hall, Burnsall primary school, The Red Lion Hotel, River Wharfe