Flockton

Worth seeing in and around Flockton

2 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
   National Coal Mining Museum for England

   National Coal Mining Museum for England is based at the site of Caphouse Colliery in Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1988 as the Yorkshire Mining Museum and was granted national status in 1995.

   1.7 km · coal mining museum in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Whistlestop Valley

   Whistlestop Valley, formerly the Kirklees Light Railway, is a visitor attraction featuring a 3+1⁄2-mile long 15 in gauge minimum-gauge railway. The attraction's main site is in the village of Clayton West in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, which was first opened to the public on 19 October 1991, with a second, smaller site in a rural area near the village of Shelley.

   4 km · narrow gauge heritage railway in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Flockton

Airports

Leeds Bradford (LBA), 26 km · Manchester (MAN), 53 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 87 km

Stations

Clayton West railway station, 4 km

• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Flockton

  43 km · quickest by road, 1h 20m · £6–7
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• Liverpool → Flockton

  92 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £10–13
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Flockton

  82 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–12
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No local-transport research exists yet for Flockton

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

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