Badsworth
Badsworth is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England.
Badsworth is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 census it had a population of 583, increasing to 682 at the 2011 Census. The village is located 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Pontefract.
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Worth seeing in and around Badsworth
One place 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.
- 01Six Arches
The Six Arches is a railway viaduct in Ackworth, West Yorkshire, England, named after its design. It carries the Pontefract to Rotherham line over the River Went.
3 km · railway viaduct in Ackworth, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Badsworth
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 36 km · Manchester (MAN), 71 km · East Midlands (EMA), 88 km
- Stations
- Moorthorpe railway station, 2.8 km · South Elmsall railway station, 3 km · Ackworth railway station, 3.9 km · Hemsworth bus station, 3.6 km · South Elmsall bus station, 3 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Badsworth64 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–12
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Badsworth76 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11
- Liverpool → Badsworth113 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £13–18
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Badsworth
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 Badsworth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextOther easy day trips include Bradford, Saltaire, Haworth and Sheffield.
From Wikivoyage: Wakefield (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Badsworth
Badsworth is 26 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- South Kirkby and Moorthorpetown in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom2.8 km
- Thorpe Audlinvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, UK2.4 km
- Uptonvillage in Upton and North Elmsall, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England700 m
- North Elmsallvillage in Upton and North Elmsall, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK1.7 km