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Bottom Boat

Bottom Boat is a village in the Wakefield district of West Yorkshire.

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The place

Bottom Boat is a village in the Wakefield district of West Yorkshire. In the 2011 United Kingdom census, its population was 1,169, and it was included as part of the West Yorkshire Built-up Area, which had a total population of 1,777,934.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Bottom Boat

9 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
    Stanley Ferry Aqueduct

    Stanley Ferry Aqueduct was built between 1836 and 1839 to take the Aire and Calder Navigation over the River Calder in West Yorkshire, England. It is one of the earliest through arch bridges in the world and is considered to be the longest span aqueduct executed in cast iron.

    1.8 km · Grade I listed aqueduct in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Barnsley Canal

    The Barnsley Canal is a canal that ran from Barnby Basin, through Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, to a junction with the Aire and Calder Navigation near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. It was built in the 1790s, to provide a transport link from coal reserves at Barnsley to a wider market.

    3.9 km · canal in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Springhead Park

    Springhead Park is a park in Rothwell, West Yorkshire, England.

    3.6 km · park in Rothwell, Leeds · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of St John the Evangelist

    St John the Evangelist's Church, Oulton, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.

    3.3 km · church in Oulton, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Peter's Church

    St Peter's Church in Stanley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England was a Church of England church. The church opened in 1824, closed in 2001 and after falling into disrepair was demolished in 2014.

    1 km · church in Stanley, Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Holy Trinity Church, Rothwell, West Yorkshire

    The Holy Trinity Church in Rothwell, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.

    3.9 km · church in Rothwell, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    All Saints Church, Normanton

    All Saints' Church is the parish church in Normanton, West Yorkshire, England.

    3.6 km · grade II listed church in Normanton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Oulton Hall

    Oulton Hall in Oulton, West Yorkshire, is a Grade II listed building in England. It was once the home of the Blayds/Calverley family.

    3 km · country house in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, now used as a hotel · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Rothwell Town Hall

    Rothwell Town Hall, also known as Rothwell District Council Offices, is a historic building on Marsh Street in Rothwell, a town in West Yorkshire, England. The building, which previously accommodated the offices and meeting place of Rothwell Urban District Council, has been sold to a developer to allow conversion for residential use.

    3.5 km · municipal building in England · 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.

Go there

Getting to Bottom Boat

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 21 km · Manchester (MAN), 68 km · East Midlands (EMA), 99 km
Stations
Outwood railway station, 3.5 km · Normanton railway station, 3 km · Lofthouse and Outwood railway station, 3.5 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Bottom Boat
    59 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Bottom Boat
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–13
  • Liverpool → Bottom Boat
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Bottom Boat

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    314 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    337 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    348 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    357 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    375 km

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

Around it

Next door to Bottom Boat

Bottom Boat is 11 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Normantontown in the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England3.6 km
  • Carltonvillage in Rothwell, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK3.2 km
  • Lofthousevillage in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom2.8 km
  • Newland with Woodhouse Moorcivil parish in City of Wakefield, England2.6 km
  • Altoftsvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Woodlesfordvillage in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England3.6 km