Garforth
Garforth is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Garforth is a town in the metropolitan borough of the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire.
Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Worth seeing in and around Garforth
10 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.
- 01Temple Newsam
Temple Newsam, is a Tudor-Jacobean house in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, with grounds landscaped by Capability Brown. The house is a Grade I listed building, one of eight Leeds Museums and Galleries sites and part of the research group, Yorkshire Country House Partnership.
4.8 km · Grade I listed historic house museum in Leeds, United Kingdom, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Parish Church of St Ricarius Or St Riquier
The Church of St Ricarius, Aberford, West Yorkshire, England, is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of York and the Diocese of Leeds. It is commonly stated that the dedication refers to the French saint St Richarius or Riquier who is supposed to have visited Aberford in 630.
5 km · church building in Aberford, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Lotherton Hall
Lotherton Hall is a country house near Aberford in West Yorkshire, England. It is a short distance from the A1 motorway, 200 miles equidistant from London and Edinburgh.
5.4 km · country house in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 04St. Mary's Church, Garforth
The Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin in Garforth, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.
600 m · church in Garforth, UK · Wikipedia - 05St Mary's Church, Whitkirk
St Mary's Church in Whitkirk, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.
4.1 km · church in Whitkirk, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St. James' Church, Seacroft
The Church of St James in Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds. The church is Grade II listed.
5.5 km · church in Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Parlington Hall
Parlington Hall was the seat of the Gascoigne family, Aberford near Leeds in West Yorkshire, England.
3.5 km · country house in West Yorkshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 08Crawshaw Woods (Shippen House Farm) Bridge, Hul4/20
Crawshaw Woods Bridge is a Grade II listed cast iron overbridge which spans the Leeds to Selby railway line between Cross Gates and Garforth railway stations. It is notable for being the oldest railway-associated iron bridge still in daily use on an operational railway.
2 km · bridge in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Austhorpe Hall
Austhorpe Hall is a house built in 1694 at Austhorpe, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is a grade II* listed building.
3.6 km · house in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Church of All Saints
All Saints' Church in Barwick-in-Elmet, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.
4.4 km · church in Barwick-in-Elmet, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Garforth
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 20 km · Manchester (MAN), 77 km · East Midlands (EMA), 107 km
- Stations
- Micklefield railway station, 4.1 km · Garforth railway station, 600 m · East Garforth railway station, 1.1 km · Cross Gates railway station, 4.3 km · Woodlesford railway station, 5.3 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Garforth66 km · quickest by road, 1h 37m · £8–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Garforth94 km · quickest by road, 2h 5m · £10–14
- Liverpool → Garforth114 km · quickest by road, 2h 19m · £12–16
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Garforth
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 Garforth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFerries sail overnight from Rotterdam (Netherlands) to Kingston upon Hull.
- Get inHull is an hour by train or car from Leeds, and the ferry port is 3 miles east of Hull city centre: buses run from there to the railway station.
- Go nextLeeds is a major transport hub, so many outlying attractions can be done as day trips.
From Wikivoyage: Leeds, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Garforth – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Garforth
Garforth is 11 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Aberfordvillage and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England5.2 km
- Kippaxvillage and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England3 km
- Micklefieldvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, UK4 km
- Allerton Bywatervillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK5.9 km
- Seacroftarea of east Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK5.8 km
- Swillingtonvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England3.4 km