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Garton on the Wolds

Garton on the Wolds is a village and a civil parish on the Yorkshire Wolds in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Garton on the Wolds
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The place

Garton on the Wolds is a village and a civil parish on the Yorkshire Wolds in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 3 miles (5 km) north-west of Driffield town centre and lies on the A166 road.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Garton on the Wolds

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
    Church of St Michael

    The Church of St Michael and all Angels, Garton on the Wolds, in the East Riding of Yorkshire is a church of medieval origins that was built c.1132 for the prior of Kirkham Abbey. Long connected to the Sykes family of Sledmere, Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet engaged John Loughborough Pearson to undertake a major reconstruction of the building in 1856–1857.

    200 m · church in Garton on the Wolds, Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is an Anglican church in Little Driffield, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in the 12th century, and the tower was heightened in the 15th century.

    3.1 km · church in Little Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Sir Tatton Sykes Memorial Tower

    The Sir Tatton Sykes Memorial Tower is a historic structure in Garton on the Wolds, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. The tower was commissioned by Sir Tatton Sykes, 5th Baronet, as a memorial to his father, Sir Tatton Sykes, 4th Baronet and funded by donations.

    3.6 km · memorial in Garton, 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 Garton on the Wolds

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 78 km · Newcastle (NCL), 137 km · Manchester (MAN), 139 km
Stations
RAF Driffield, 3.1 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Garton on the Wolds
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Garton on the Wolds
    128 km · quickest by road, 2h 47m · £15–20
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Garton on the Wolds
    129 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £14–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Garton on the Wolds

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 Garton on the Wolds. 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 nightly to Hull from Rotterdam, 12 hours.

From Wikivoyage: East Yorkshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2024-04.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    344 km
  2. 02
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    371 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    374 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    375 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    403 km

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

Around it

Next door to Garton on the Wolds

Garton on the Wolds is 33 km from Kingston upon Hull, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Eastburnvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Elmswellvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK1.7 km
  • Little Driffieldvillage in East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom3 km