Darton
Darton is a large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, on the border with West Yorkshire, England.
Darton is a large village in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, on the border with West Yorkshire, England. At the time of the 2001 UK census, it had a population of 14,927, increasing to 21,345 for both Darton Wards at the 2011 Census.
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Worth seeing in and around Darton
4 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.
- 01Bretton Hall
Bretton Hall is a country house in West Bretton near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It housed Bretton Hall College from 1949 until 2001 and was a campus of the University of Leeds from 2001 to 2007.
3.9 km · Georgian country house in West Yorkshire, England, now part of Yorkshire Sculpture Park · Wikipedia - 02Church In Bretton Park
St Bartholomew's Chapel is a former estate church in the grounds of Bretton Hall, in West Bretton near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. The redundant Grade II* listed chapel has been restored as gallery space for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
3.6 km · church building in West Bretton, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Church of All Saints
The Church of All Saints is the parish church in the village of Darton in South Yorkshire, England. It is a Church of England church in the Diocese of Leeds.
100 m · Anglican church in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Woolley Hall
Woolley Hall is a country house in Woolley, West Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.6 km · house in Woolley, Wakefield, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Darton
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 32 km · Manchester (MAN), 56 km · East Midlands (EMA), 85 km
- Stations
- Darton railway station, 400 m · Staincross and Mapplewell railway station, 3.1 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Darton48 km · quickest by road, 1h 38m · £5–7
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Darton75 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11
- Liverpool → Darton98 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £11–14
- 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 Darton
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 Darton. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Wakefield (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Darton
Darton is 23 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- High Hoylandvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK3.2 km
- Cawthornevillage in South Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Woolleyvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.4 km
- Barughvillage in South Yorkshire, UK1.8 km
- Kexbroughvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK700 m
- Staincrossvillage in South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom2.2 km