Castleford
Castleford is a town within the City of Wakefield district, West Yorkshire, England.
Castleford is a town within the City of Wakefield district, West Yorkshire, England. It had a population of 45,106 at a 2021 population estimate. Historically in the West Riding of Yorkshire, to the north of the town centre the River Calder joins the River Aire and the Aire and Calder Navigation. It is located north east of Wakefield, north of Pontefract and south east of Leeds. Castleford is the largest town in the Wakefield district after Wakefield itself.
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Worth seeing in and around Castleford
10 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.
- 01Pontefract
Pontefract is a historic market town in the City of Wakefield, a metropolitan district in West Yorkshire, England. It lies to the east of Wakefield and south of Castleford.
4 km · market town in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 02Pontefract Castle
Pontefract Castle is a castle ruin in the town of Pontefract, in West Yorkshire, England. King Richard II is thought to have died there.
4.1 km · castle in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Church of All Saints
The Church of All Saints in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England is an active Church of England parish church in the archdeaconry of Pontefract and the Diocese of Leeds. The church consists of two structures, an outer church constructed in the 14th and 15th century and ruined in the English Civil War and a smaller inner church completed in the late 1960s.
4.3 km · church in Pontefract, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04The Jungle (Wheldon Road)
Wheldon Road is the home ground of Castleford Tigers rugby league club in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England. It is on Wheldon Road, just outside Castleford town centre.
1.8 km · rugby league stadium in Castleford, England · Wikipedia - 05Old Town Hall
The Old Town Hall is a historic town hall in Market Place in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It was completed in 1785 and was replaced by Pontefract Town Hall which was completed in 1882.
4 km · municipal building in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St. Giles' Church, Pontefract
The Church of St. Giles' in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.
4 km · church in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Pontefract Town Hall
Pontefract Town Hall is a town hall in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England. It was completed in 1882.
4.1 km · town hall in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 08Trinity Methodist Church, Castleford
Trinity Methodist Church, Castleford, is in Castleford, Wakefield District, West Yorkshire, England. The church is part of the Aire and Calder Methodist Circuit in the Yorkshire West District.
1 km · church in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 09Lagentium
Lagentium or Legiolum was the Roman name for the fort and surrounding civilian settlement which was built around the year 74 by the Roman Empire. The English town of Castleford, West Yorkshire, is now built on what was the fort.
1.1 km · UK archaeological site · Wikipedia - 10All Saints Church, Normanton
All Saints' Church is the parish church in Normanton, West Yorkshire, England.
4.4 km · grade II listed church in Normanton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Castleford
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 26 km · Manchester (MAN), 73 km · East Midlands (EMA), 98 km
- Stations
- Glasshoughton railway station, 1.3 km · Castleford railway station, 900 m · Pontefract Tanshelf railway station, 3.5 km · Pontefract Monkhill railway station, 3.9 km · Pontefract Baghill railway station, 4.4 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Castleford64 km · quickest by road, 1h 35m · £7–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Castleford87 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £9–13
- Liverpool → Castleford112 km · quickest by road, 2h 17m · £12–15
- 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 Castleford
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 Castleford. 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.
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Next door to Castleford
Castleford is 15 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Normantontown in the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England4.5 km
- Featherstonetown in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England2 km
- Kippaxvillage and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England5.7 km
- Allerton Bywatervillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK2.9 km
- Fairburnvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, UK5.6 km
- Brothertonvillage and civil parish in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England5.7 km