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Barkston Ash

Barkston Ash is a small village and civil parish close to Selby in North Yorkshire, England.

Barkston Ash
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The place

Barkston Ash is a small village and civil parish close to Selby in North Yorkshire, England. It was formerly known as Barkston, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. In 2011 the parish had a population of 370.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Barkston Ash

7 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
    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.

    2.8 km · church in Lead, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Holy Trinity Church, Barkston Ash

    Holy Trinity Church is an Anglican church in Barkston Ash, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. Until the mid 19th century, the village did not have a place of worship, but instead fell into the parish of All Saints' Church, Sherburn in Elmet.

    0 m · church in Barkston Ash, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints' Church is the parish church of Sherburn in Elmet, a town in North Yorkshire in England. The church was constructed in the 12th century, from which period the nave and part of the north aisle date.

    2.6 km · historic church in Sherburn in Elmet, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Mary the Virgin

    St Mary the Virgin's Church is the parish church of Church Fenton, a village south of Tadcaster in North Yorkshire, in England.

    2.4 km · Grade I listed church in Church Fenton, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Huddleston Hall

    Huddleston Hall is a historic building in Huddleston with Newthorpe, a civil parish in North Yorkshire, in England. The manor house was constructed around 1700, for the Hungate family, with stables being constructed at the same time.

    3.2 km · house in Huddleston with Newthorpe, Selby, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    The Church of the Immaculate Conception, Scarthingwell

    The Church of the Immaculate Conception is a historic church in Scarthingwell, in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was constructed in 1854 to a design by John Bownas and William Atkinson.

    800 m · Catholic Church in Saxton with Scarthingwell, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    The Old Vicarage

    The Old Vicarage is a historic building in Church Fenton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. A vicarage was first endowed in Church Fenton in 1240.

    2.6 km · clergy house in Church Fenton, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · 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 Barkston Ash

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 27 km · Manchester (MAN), 85 km · East Midlands (EMA), 110 km
Stations
Sherburn-in-Elmet railway station, 2.8 km · Church Fenton railway station, 2 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Barkston Ash
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Barkston Ash
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 4m · £10–13
  • Liverpool → Barkston Ash
    121 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £13–17
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Barkston Ash

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 Barkston Ash. 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

    317 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    348 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    350 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    374 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    378 km

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

Around it

Next door to Barkston Ash

Barkston Ash is 19 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Towtonvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK3.5 km
  • Sherburn in Elmetvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK2.8 km
  • Church Fentonvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK2.4 km
  • Little Fentonvillage and civil parish in Selby, North Yorkshire, England3.2 km
  • Saxtonvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK1.6 km
  • Leadvillage and civil parish in Selby, North Yorkshire, England3.7 km