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Fulstone

Fulstone is a village in the civil parish of Holme Valley, in the Kirklees district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

Fulstone
Fulstone · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Fulstone is a village in the civil parish of Holme Valley, in the Kirklees district, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. It is about 5 miles (8.0 km) from Huddersfield. Until 1974, it was in the West Riding of Yorkshire. In 1931, the parish had a population of 2127.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Fulstone

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.

  1. 01
    Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland

    The Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland, West Yorkshire, England, is an Anglican church. It is an Arts and Crafts building in Gothic Revival style, designed by James Mallinson and William Swinden Barber, and completed in 1870.

    1.6 km · Grade II listed church in the village of Thurstonland, in the parish of Kirkburton, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Town Hall

    Kirkburton Hall, formerly known as Kirkburton Town Hall, and before that, as Springfield House, is a former municipal building in Penistone Road in Kirkburton, a town in West Yorkshire in England. The building, which was previously the offices and meeting place of the Kirkburton Urban District Council and is now a private residence, is a grade II listed building.

    4 km · Grade II listed building in Kirkburton, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of the Holy Trinity

    Holy Trinity Church, Holmfirth is an Anglican church in the town of Holmfirth in West Yorkshire, England. Holmfirth's chapelry historically covered townships which lay on or near the boundary between the parishes of Kirkburton and Almondbury: Wooldate, Hepworth and Cartworth in Kirkburton, and Holme, Austonley and Upperthong in Almondbury.

    3.5 km · church in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Holme Valley war memorial

    Holme Valley War Memorial is a war memorial in the grounds of the Holme Valley Memorial Hospital Holmfirth, West Yorkshire, in England. It was unveiled in July 1921, by Colonel H. R. Headlam, who had previously commanded the 5th Battalion, Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment.

    3.1 km · English monument · 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 Fulstone

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 32 km · Manchester (MAN), 44 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 79 km
Stations
Stocksmoor railway station, 1.6 km · Brockholes railway station, 2.8 km · Shepley railway station, 2.2 km · Shelley railway station, 3.4 km · Holmfirth bus station, 3.5 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Fulstone
    35 km · quickest by road, 1h 18m · £4–5
  • Liverpool → Fulstone
    84 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £9–12
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Fulstone
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £9–12
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Fulstone

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 Fulstone. 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

    312 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    323 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    333 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    346 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    373 km

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

Around it

Next door to Fulstone

Fulstone is 24 km from Bradford, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Holmfirthtown in West Yorkshire, England3.6 km
  • Kirkburtonvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.9 km
  • Upper Cumberworthvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Hepworthvillage in West Yorkshire, UK3 km
  • Shepleyvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK1.7 km
  • Birdsedgevillage in West Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom3 km