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Birstwith

Birstwith is a village and civil parish in Nidderdale in North Yorkshire, England.

Birstwith
Birstwith · A Neil Mackay
The place

Birstwith is a village and civil parish in Nidderdale in North Yorkshire, England. It is situated on the River Nidd. According to the 2001 census, the parish had a population of 756 and increased to 868 based on the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Birstwith

6 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
    Burnt Yates School

    Burnt Yates School was a primary school in the village of Burnt Yates, in North Yorkshire, in England. The school was founded in 1760.

    2 km · school building in Clint cum Hamlets, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Jude

    St Jude's Church is an Anglican church in Hartwith cum Winsley, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in 1751, as a chapel of ease to St Andrew's Church, Kirkby Malzeard.

    3.3 km · church building in Hartwith cum Winsley, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St James the Apostle

    St James' Church is the parish church of Birstwith, a village in North Yorkshire in England. The church was commissioned by John Frederick Greenwood, a local mill owner.

    200 m · church building in Birstwith, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St Thomas A Becket

    St Thomas a Becket's Church is the parish church of Hampsthwaite, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. Numerous Saxon and Norman graveslabs have been found in the vicinity of the church, suggesting there was an early church building here.

    2 km · church building in Hampsthwaite, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hampsthwaite Bridge Over River Nidd

    Hampsthwaite Bridge is a historic structure in Hampsthwaite, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. A bridge over the River Nidd in Hampsthwaite was first recorded in 1527.

    2.1 km · bridge in Hampsthwaite, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St Andrew's

    St Andrew's Church is an Anglican church in Burnt Yates, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. Burnt Yates was historically in the parish of All Saints' Church, Ripley.

    2 km · church in Burnt Yates, North Yorkshire · 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 Birstwith

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 18 km · Manchester (MAN), 87 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 111 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Birstwith
    73 km · quickest by road, 2h 11m · £9–12
  • Liverpool → Birstwith
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · £13–17
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Birstwith
    105 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £11–15
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Birstwith

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 Birstwith. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inP&O Ferries sail overnight to Hull from Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

From Wikivoyage: Yorkshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    283 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    315 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    344 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    372 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    378 km

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

Around it

Next door to Birstwith

Birstwith is 27 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Felliscliffecivil parish in North Yorkshire, England2.5 km
  • Burnt Yatesvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK2 km
  • Darleyvillage in North Yorkshire, England3.5 km
  • Clint cum Hamletscivil parish in North Yorkshire, England2.5 km
  • Bedlamvillage in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.4 km