Arthursdale
Arthursdale is an area within the village of Scholes in West Yorkshire, England.
Arthursdale is an area within the village of Scholes in West Yorkshire, England. It is a small area immediately to the north of Rakehill Road in Scholes, near the former Scholes station on the closed Cross Gates–Wetherby line. It was established around 1900 on glebe land bought by farmer, property developer and brick works manager Arthur Chippindale and included Whinmoor Farm. A cricket club named after the settlement was formed in 1929.
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Worth seeing in and around Arthursdale
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.
- 01St. James' Church, Seacroft
The Church of St James in Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds. The church is Grade II listed.
2.7 km · church in Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Church 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.
2.3 km · church in Barwick-in-Elmet, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03St. Peter's Church, Thorner
St Peter's Church in Thorner, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds. The church is part of Elmete Trinity Benefice, which consists of the parishes of All Saints, Barwick in Elmet, St Philip's, Scholes and St Peter's, Thorner.
3 km · church in Thorner, UK · Wikipedia - 04Crawshaw Woods (Shippen House Farm) Bridge, Hul4/20
Crawshaw Woods Bridge is a Grade II listed cast iron overbridge which spans the Leeds to Selby railway line between Cross Gates and Garforth railway stations. It is notable for being the oldest railway-associated iron bridge still in daily use on an operational railway.
3.5 km · bridge in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 05Austhorpe Hall
Austhorpe Hall is a house built in 1694 at Austhorpe, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is a grade II* listed building.
3.5 km · house in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Arthursdale
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 16 km · Manchester (MAN), 78 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 109 km
- Stations
- Cross Gates railway station, 3.5 km · Seacroft bus station, 2.4 km · Thorpe Park railway station, 3.2 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Arthursdale66 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11
- Liverpool → Arthursdale113 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £12–16
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Arthursdale100 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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No local-transport research exists yet for Arthursdale
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 Arthursdale. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFerries sail overnight from Rotterdam (Netherlands) to Kingston upon Hull.
- Get inHull is an hour by train or car from Leeds, and the ferry port is 3 miles east of Hull city centre: buses run from there to the railway station.
- Go nextLeeds is a major transport hub, so many outlying attractions can be done as day trips.
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Next door to Arthursdale
Arthursdale is 9 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Scarcroftvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, UK3.7 km
- Seacroftarea of east Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK2.5 km
- Thornervillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England3 km
- Barwick in Elmetvillage in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom2.1 km
- Austhorpecivil parish and suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England4 km
- Barwick in Elmet and Scholescivil parish in City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England1.2 km