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Dunford

Dunford is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England.

Dunford
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The place

Dunford is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England. It lies in the Peak District and within the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley. The population of the civil parish as of the 2011 census was 568. The parish is centred on Dunford Bridge to the west and Crow Edge to the east.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Dunford

One place 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
    Winscar Reservoir

    Winscar Reservoir, is a compensation reservoir on the headwaters of the River Don in South Yorkshire, England. The reservoir is located at Dunford Bridge in Barnsley 25 miles northwest of Sheffield, and is just inside the Peak District National Park on the Pennine watershed.

    1.8 km · reservoir in South Yorkshire, England, UK · 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 Dunford

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 38 km · Manchester (MAN), 40 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 76 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Dunford
    32 km · quickest by road, 1h 2m · £3.5–4.5
  • Liverpool → Dunford
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 28m · £6–7
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Dunford
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Dunford

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundthere's a local minibus service that provides journeys to various villages dotted about the valley.

From Wikivoyage: Holmfirth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-04.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    316 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    317 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    328 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    351 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    378 km

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

Around it

Next door to Dunford

Dunford is 24 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hepworthvillage in West Yorkshire, UK3.6 km
  • Dunford Bridgehamlet in South Yorkshire, England, UK800 m
  • Hade Edgevillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.1 km
  • Carlecotesvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK1 km
  • Barnsidehamlet in West Yorkshire, England, UK2.9 km
  • Crow Edgehamlet in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.3 km