Winterburn: what to know before moving day
Friars Head, a large gritstone house of about 1600 listed at Grade II*, stands in the hamlet on the site of a grange that belonged to Furness Abbey. Winterburn Bridge, early 17th century and later widened, carries Abbey Hill over the beck, and Winterburn Chapel of 1703 to 1704 is now a private house. Hills Lane runs through the hamlet with the postcode BD23 3QR.
Winterburn Reservoir was built between 1885 and 1893 by the Leeds engineers Henry Rofe and Edward Filliter to keep water in the canal, and its outflow is Winterburn Beck. Farmhouses such as Brockabank, Cowper Cote and Rookeries are listed, as are Flasby Hall Farmhouse and Flasby Top Cottage in the other half of the parish. Describe the approach and any gate before the day.
How the van gets to Winterburn
The van follows the A650 and A629 from Bradford to Skipton and the A65 on to Gargrave. From Gargrave the van takes the lanes north towards Eshton and Flasby and reaches the houses on Hills Lane and Abbey Hill. Budget roughly 40 to 55 minutes from Bradford to Winterburn, an estimate.
The drive from Bradford is roughly 40 to 55 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.
Also covered around Winterburn
Flasby, Eshton.
Services for Winterburn
Each service below links to its Skipton page, which covers how the job works in and around Skipton.
Winterburn: questions before you book
Winterburn and Flasby share a parish. Is Flasby covered too?
Yes. Flasby is the other village in the parish of Flasby with Winterburn, and moves there are planned the same way. Give the house or farm name, as the listed farmhouses in both are known by name.
Where the local details on this page come from
Checked on 28 September 2026 against:
- Postcode lookup (postcodes.io, ONS data): BD23 3QR is in Mid Craven ward, North Yorkshire, parish of Flasby with Winterburn
- Winterburn (Wikipedia): about 5 miles south-west of Grassington, Winterburn Reservoir about a mile away, village on Winterburn Beck, Friars Head Hall on the site of a Furness Abbey grange
- Winterburn Reservoir (Wikipedia): built 1885-1893 by Henry Rofe and Edward Filliter to maintain levels on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal, discharge into Winterburn Beck
- Listed buildings in Flasby with Winterburn (Wikipedia): parish contains Flasby and Winterburn; Friars Head (Grade II*), Winterburn Bridge carrying Abbey Hill, Winterburn Chapel now a house, Brockabank, Cowper Cote, Rookeries, Flasby Hall Farmhouse, Flasby Top Cottage
- Gargrave (Wikipedia): ancient parish including Eshton and Flasby with Winterburn; the A65
- OpenStreetMap data via Nominatim: Hills Lane, Winterburn, BD23 3QR