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Flaxby

Flaxby is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England.

The place

Flaxby is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is close to the A1(M) motorway and 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Knaresborough.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Flaxby

5 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
    Allerton Castle

    Allerton Castle, also known as Allerton Park, is a Grade I listed nineteenth-century Gothic or Victorian Gothic house at Allerton Mauleverer in North Yorkshire, England. It was rebuilt by architect George Martin, of Baker Street, London in 1843–1853.

    1.9 km · Grade I listed country house in Allerton Mauleverer, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St Martin's Church, Allerton Mauleverer

    St Martin's Church is a historic Anglican church in the village of Allerton Mauleverer, North Yorkshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of The Churches Conservation Trust.

    2 km · church in Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Bartholomew's

    St Bartholomew's Church is an Anglican church in Arkendale, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. A church in the village was first recorded in the 14th century.

    3.2 km · church in Arkendale, North Yorkshire · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Mary's Church

    St Mary's Church is the parish church of Goldsborough, a village near Harrogate in North Yorkshire, in England. The church appears to have first been built in the 12th century, from which period survive the south door and perhaps some walling at the ends of the nave.

    2.1 km · church in Goldsborough, North Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hay-a-Park nature reserve

    Hay-a-Park Gravel Pit is a Site of Special Scientific Interest, or SSSI, adjacent to the east side of the town of Knaresborough, North Yorkshire, England. Having been a disused and flooded quarry since the 1970s, it now consists of the large Hay-a-Park Lake and three smaller ponds, besides associated reedbeds, scrub, woodland and grassland.

    3.4 km · site of Special Scientific Interest in North Yorkshire, 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 Flaxby

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 24 km · Manchester (MAN), 94 km · Newcastle (NCL), 115 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Flaxby
    81 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £10–14
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Flaxby
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £11–15
  • Liverpool → Flaxby
    124 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Flaxby

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inP&O Ferries sail overnight to Hull from Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

From Wikivoyage: Yorkshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    296 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    328 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    357 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    370 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    385 km

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

Around it

Next door to Flaxby

Flaxby is 26 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.