Gateforth
Gateforth is a small village and civil parish located in North Yorkshire, England.

Gateforth is a small village and civil parish located in North Yorkshire, England. The village is 4 miles (6 km) south west of the town of Selby and 1.4 miles (2 km) south of the village of Hambleton, where a shop a hotel and one pub are located. Gateforth is approximately 20 miles (32 km) east of Leeds. According to the 2011 UK census, the village had a population of 240 with 94 households. The village was historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire until 1974. From 1974 to 2023 it was part of the Selby District, it is now administered by the unitary North Yorkshire Council.
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Worth seeing in and around Gateforth
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.
- 01St John the Baptist
St John the Baptist's Church is an Anglican church in Chapel Haddlesey, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The first church in Haddlesey was consecrated by Walter de Gray in 1237.
3.4 km · church in Haddlesey, North Yorkshire · Wikipedia - 02St Mary's Church
St Mary's Church is the parish church of Hambleton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. A chantry chapel dedicated to Our Lady was constructed in Hambleton in about 1307, and was last recorded in 1536.
2.4 km · church in Hambleton, North Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 03Church of St Mary
St Mary's Church is the parish church of Birkin, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in the 12th century, and survives largely intact from the period.
3.6 km · church in Birkin, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Gateforth Hall
Gateforth Hall is a historic building in Gateforth, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was constructed between 1812 and 1814 for Humphrey Osbalderston.
1 km · house in Gateforth, Selby, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Gateforth
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 36 km · Manchester (MAN), 87 km · East Midlands (EMA), 103 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Gateforth78 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £9–12
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Gateforth89 km · quickest by road, 2h 8m · £10–13
- Liverpool → Gateforth126 km · quickest by road, 2h 41m · £14–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Gateforth
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 Gateforth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Gateforth – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Gateforth
Gateforth is 26 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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