Havercroft
Havercroft is a small village situated on the B6428 in West Yorkshire, England, approximately 6½ miles north-east of the centre of Barnsley.
Havercroft is a small village situated on the B6428 in West Yorkshire, England, approximately 6½ miles north-east of the centre of Barnsley. It forms part of the civil parish of Havercroft with Cold Hiendley, which has a population of 2,103, increasing to 2,256 at the 2011 Census.
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Worth seeing in and around Havercroft
2 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.
- 01Kinsley Greyhound Stadium
Kinsley Greyhound Stadium is a Greyhound Board of Great Britain regulated greyhound racing stadium situated on Wakefield Road in Kinsley, West Yorkshire, England.
2.5 km · Greyhound racing stadium in England · Wikipedia - 02Hodroyd Hall
Hodroyd Hall at South Hiendley in the parish of Felkirk near Barnsley in West Yorkshire, England is an Elizabethan manor house currently used as 3 dwellings. It is Grade II listed.
1 km · house in South Hiendley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Havercroft
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 33 km · Manchester (MAN), 65 km · East Midlands (EMA), 88 km
- Stations
- Fitzwilliam railway station, 2.5 km · Hemsworth bus station, 3.3 km · Notton and Royston railway station, 3.9 km · Ryhill railway station, 1.7 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Havercroft57 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Havercroft76 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £9–11
- Liverpool → Havercroft107 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £12–17
- 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 Havercroft
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 Havercroft. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextOther easy day trips include Bradford, Saltaire, Haworth and Sheffield.
From Wikivoyage: Wakefield (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Havercroft
Havercroft is 22 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Hemsworthtown in the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England3.5 km
- Brierleytown in South Yorkshire, UK2.8 km
- Roystonvillage within the Metropolitan borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England3.3 km
- South Hiendleyvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, UK1 km
- Shaftonvillage and civil parish in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.5 km
- Wintersettvillage in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England2.6 km