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Cawthorne

Cawthorne is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.

Cawthorne
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The place

Cawthorne is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. The village was once a centre of the iron and coal mining industry; today it is part of an affluent commuter belt west of Barnsley. At the 2001 census it had a population of 1,108, increasing to 1,151 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Cawthorne

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 34 km · Manchester (MAN), 53 km · East Midlands (EMA), 83 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Cawthorne
    45 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £5–6
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Cawthorne
    74 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11
  • Liverpool → Cawthorne
    95 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £10–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Cawthorne

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 Cawthorne. 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

    320 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    321 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    339 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    355 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    382 km

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Around it

Next door to Cawthorne

Cawthorne is 22 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.