Region: England · United Kingdom
Where to stay in Richmond
Richmond is a city in England, United Kingdom, home to about 8,000 people. This guide covers 2 hotels in Richmond, with about 156 rooms between them. Every one carries a published guest score, and the list below is ordered by it.
- Places to stay in this guide
- 2
- Best months
- July
- Nearest airport
- MME23 km · Teesside International Airport
- Currency
- GBPpound sterling
- Time zone
- Europe/London
- Plugs
- G · 230 V
- Emergency
- 112
- Language
- Cornish, English, Irish
About
About Richmond
Richmond is a market town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is located at the point where Swaledale, the upper valley of the River Swale, opens into the Vale of Mowbray.
The military connections of Richmond go back to Saxon times, when it was in the Wapentake of Gilling. That means a weapon-take or muster of the troops it could raise when called upon - there would be no standing armies for another 600 years. The Domesday Book of 1086 recorded six villagers and two smallholders divided into four ploughing teams, plus one priest, and the whole lot was worth 16 shillings. The wealth of the area increased in the 17th and 18th centuries from wool and from lead mining, so Richmond became a prosperous Georgian town.
Wikipedia and Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Things to do
What to see and do in Richmond
See
- Market Place
- Green Howards Regimental Museum
- Richmond Castle
- Richmond Falls
- Richmondshire Museum
- Culloden Tower
- Easby Abbey
- Middleham Castle
Do
- Wensleydale Railway
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Where to stay
The best-rated places to stay in Richmond
Ordered by guest score as each operator publishes it, weighted by the number of reviews so a handful of perfect scores does not outrank thousands of very good ones. Scores are shown on their own scale.
| # | Place to stay | Rooms | Guest score |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Travelodge Scotch Corner Skeeby hotel | 65 | 4.4/5 704 reviews |
| 2 | Travelodge Scotch Corner A1 Southbound hotel | 91 | 4.2/5 631 reviews |
Schematic: the city centre in orange, each place to stay as a dot, distance rings in kilometres.
Where to stay
Where the places to stay in Richmond are
71 places to stay in this guide with known coordinates, grouped by straight-line distance from the city centre (the point Wikidata gives for Richmond), nearest first. Distance on foot or by road is longer.
12 places
- King's Head Hotel · 0.0 km
- The Turf Hotel · 0.1 km
- The Fleece Hotel · 0.1 km
- Town Hall Town Hall Hotel · 0.1 km
- Golden Lion Hotel · 0.1 km
- The Talbot · 0.1 km
- Unicorn Hotel · 0.2 km
- The Castle House Luxury Bed & Breakfast · 0.2 km
- The Buck · 0.2 km
- Frenchgate Hotel · 0.3 km
- Ship Inn · 0.4 km
- West End Guest House · 1.0 km
14 places
- Whashton Springs Farm · 4.3 km
- White Swan Inn · 4.3 km
- Travelodge Scotch Corner Skeeby · 5.2 km
- Catterick Bridge Hotel · 5.8 km
- Travelodge Scotch Corner A1 Southbound · 6.4 km
- Oak Tree Inn · 7.4 km
- Angel Inn · 7.5 km
- County Hotel · 7.5 km
- Middleton Lodge · 7.8 km
- Royal Hotel · 7.9 km
- Bay Horse Inn · 8.1 km
- Elmfield House · 8.9 km
- West Layton Manor · 9.4 km
- Former White Horse Inn · 9.8 km
45 places
- The Wyvill Arms · 10.2 km
- The Greyhound Inn · 10.5 km
- Grove Hotel · 11.9 km
- Grove House · 11.9 km
- Golden Lion Hotel And Railings · 12.0 km
- Black Swan Hotel · 12.0 km
- The Sandpiper Inn · 12.0 km
- Eastfield Lodge · 12.0 km
- Clyde House · 12.0 km
- Bolton Arms Hotel · 12.1 km
- The Burgoyne Hotel · 13.4 km
- The Buck Hotel at Reeth · 13.4 km
- The King's Arms · 13.4 km
- Wensleydale Hotel · 13.8 km
- Commercial Hotel · 13.9 km
- The Dante Arms · 13.9 km
- Castle Hotel (No 34) And Foxter House (No 34A) · 13.9 km
- Cover Bridge Inn · 14.1 km
- The Morritt Arms Hotel · 15.1 km
- The Bridge Inn · 15.5 km
And 25 more, further out.
Where to stay
More hotels in Richmond
69 hotels within 25 km of the centre, as recorded in Wikidata; the 40 best known are shown, by the number of Wikipedia editions that cover them. Each name links to its encyclopedia article where there is one.
When to go
The best time to visit Richmond
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Richmond are July. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 20 °C; December is the wettest, with about 108 mm of rain.
Comfortable means average daytime high between 18 °C and 29 °C and under 80 mm of rain in the month. Averages for 1991–2020 over the surrounding area, a grid square about 50 km across, so a coast or a nearby mountain can make the town itself warmer or cooler. Data: CRU TS v4.10, Climatic Research Unit, University of East Anglia (Open Database License).
Richmond travel calendar 2027: every day with public and school holidays, sunrise and sunset and the typical high and low (also as JSON).
Public holidays in United Kingdom, 2026
Shops and offices may close on these dates.
Getting there
Getting to Richmond: airports and arrival
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Teesside International Airport (MME), about 23 km from the city centre in a straight line; Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA, 60 km) and Newcastle International Airport (NCL, 71 km) are also within reach.
Getting in
Newcastle (NCL) is the nearest usable airport. Teesside (MME) is closer but has hardly any flights and its days may be numbered. For long distance flights use Manchester and take the train. Darlington is the nearest railway station, with frequent trains on the London Kings Cross - York - Newcastle - Edinburgh line. Arriva Bus X26 / X27 runs from Darlington town hall and railway station, taking 40 min via Scotch Corner and Skeeby, and continuing to Catterick Garrison, Scotton, Kemmel and Colburn. It's every 30 min M-F, hourly Sa Su.
Getting around
Richmond is best explored on foot, including to Easby Abbey. You need wheels for Middleham Castle and to explore the Dales. Half a dozen parking lots in town, the market place is often full and is unavailable Saturday morning for the weekly market. Taxi firms are Jet Cars (+44 1748 554433), Amalgamated Taxi (+44 1748 825112), and Tom's (+44 7802 332185).
Wikivoyage contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0; excerpted.
Good to know
Accessibility, parking and families in Richmond
How many places to stay in this guide offer each, in their operators' own words.
of 2 places
of 2 places
Questions
Richmond: questions travellers ask
What are the best-rated hotels in Richmond?
By published guest score: Travelodge Scotch Corner Skeeby (4.4 / 5 · 704 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)); Travelodge Scotch Corner A1 Southbound (4.2 / 5 · 631 reviews · www.travelodge.co.uk (operator's own guest score)).
When is the best time to visit Richmond?
The most comfortable months for a city stay in Richmond are July. July is the warmest month, with average highs of 20 °C; December is the wettest, with about 108 mm of rain.
Which airport is closest to Richmond?
The nearest airport with scheduled flights is Teesside International Airport (MME), about 23 km from the city centre in a straight line; Leeds Bradford Airport (LBA, 60 km) and Newcastle International Airport (NCL, 71 km) are also within reach.
What currency is used in Richmond?
pound sterling (GBP).
Nearby
Destinations near Richmond
Sources: city facts from Wikidata and Wikipedia; airports from OurAirports; climate from CRU TS v4.10 (University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit), 1991–2020 monthly means, 0.5° grid; public holidays from python-holidays (MIT); places to stay, guest scores and amenities from each operator's own public pages. How this guide is made.