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Ganstead

Ganstead is a village in the civil parish of Bilton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness.

The place

Ganstead is a village in the civil parish of Bilton, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, in an area known as Holderness. It is situated approximately 5 miles (8 km) north-east of Kingston upon Hull city centre.

It is divided into Ganstead East and Ganstead West by the A165 road which passes through the village.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Ganstead

3 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
    East Park

    East Park is a major park of about 120 acres situated on the Holderness Road in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. East Park is registered a Grade II listed site by English Heritage.

    3.9 km · park in Kingston upon Hull, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Peter

    St Peter's Church is the parish church of Bilton, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England. There was a church in Bilton in the mediaeval period, originally dedicated to Mary Magdalene, but later to Saint Peter.

    1.6 km · church building in Bilton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Wyton Methodist Church

    Wyton Methodist Church is a Methodist chapel in Wyton, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England. The chapel was built by the Wesleyan Methodist Church in 1841.

    2.9 km · chapel in Wyton, East Riding of 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 Ganstead

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 92 km · East Midlands (EMA), 128 km · Manchester (MAN), 142 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Ganstead
    85 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £9–12
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Ganstead
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £14–19
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ganstead
    135 km · quickest by road, 2h 37m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ganstead

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inSeveral of the services operate through to King George Dock to connect with ferry services through to the continent.
  • Get inP&O Ferries sail daily to and from Europoort, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
  • Get inThe number 70 bus, operated by Stagecoach Hull, operates once daily in each direction between Hull Interchange and the ferry terminal.
  • Get aroundHull is one of the best cities for cycling in the UK, with extensive cycle paths, including some off road routes.
  • Go nextBook a two-night mini-cruise with P&O Ferries and go to Amsterdam, Rotterdam or Bruges.

From Wikivoyage: Kingston upon Hull, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    351 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    352 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    371 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    402 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    417 km

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

Around it

Next door to Ganstead

Ganstead is 7 km from Kingston upon Hull, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Swinevillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK2.1 km
  • Biltonvillage and civil parish in East Riding of Yorkshire, UK1.7 km
  • Conistonvillage and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK1.3 km
  • Thirtlebyvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK2.9 km
  • Sutton-on-Hullsuburb of Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK3.2 km
  • Wytonvillage in East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom3 km