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Aberford

Aberford is a village and civil parish on the eastern outskirts of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England.

Aberford
Aberford · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Aberford is a village and civil parish on the eastern outskirts of the City of Leeds in West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 1,059 at the 2001 census, increasing to 1,180 at the 2011 Census. It is situated 10 miles (15.5 km) east, north east of Leeds and west of the A1(M) motorway.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Aberford

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Parish Church of St Ricarius Or St Riquier

    The Church of St Ricarius, Aberford, West Yorkshire, England, is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of York and the Diocese of Leeds. It is commonly stated that the dedication refers to the French saint St Richarius or Riquier who is supposed to have visited Aberford in 630.

    200 m · church building in Aberford, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Lotherton Hall

    Lotherton Hall is a country house near Aberford in West Yorkshire, England. It is a short distance from the A1 motorway, 200 miles equidistant from London and Edinburgh.

    2.1 km · country house in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary's Chapel, Lead

    St Mary's Church, Lead, is a redundant Anglican chapel standing in an isolated position in fields in the civil parish of Lead, some 0.75 miles to the west of the village of Saxton, North Yorkshire, England. Though technically a chapel, it is generally referred to as a church.

    3.1 km · church in Lead, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints' Church in Barwick-in-Elmet, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.

    3.3 km · church in Barwick-in-Elmet, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Parlington Hall

    Parlington Hall was the seat of the Gascoigne family, Aberford near Leeds in West Yorkshire, England.

    1.7 km · country house in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Aberford

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 21 km · Manchester (MAN), 82 km · East Midlands (EMA), 111 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Aberford
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Aberford
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 6m · £10–14
  • Liverpool → Aberford
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Aberford

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Aberford. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextFor day trips use the bus or Park & Ride.

From Wikivoyage: Tadcaster, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    312 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    345 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    349 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    371 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    373 km

If you know how people move in Aberford – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Aberford

Aberford is 14 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Parlingtonsettlement and civil parish in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom1.7 km
  • Sturton Grangecivil parish in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.8 km
  • Barwick in Elmetvillage in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom3.4 km
  • Lotherton cum Aberfordcivil parish in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom700 m
  • Leadvillage and civil parish in Selby, North Yorkshire, England3.4 km
  • Barwick-in-Elmet Castlefortification in the village of Barwick-in-Elmet, West Yorkshire, England, UK3.4 km