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Hedon

Hedon is a town and civil parish in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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The place

Hedon is a town and civil parish in Holderness in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately 5 miles (8 km) east of Hull city centre. It lies to the north of the A1033 road at the crossroads of the B1240 and B1362 roads.

It is particularly noted for the parish church of St. Augustine, known as the 'King of Holderness', which is a Grade I listed building.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hedon

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.

  1. 01
    Paull Holme Tower

    Paull Holme Tower is an unusual late-medieval fortified tower in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

    3.6 km · Grade I listed building in East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Paull Lighthouse

    Paull is a village and civil parish in Holderness, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, lying on the north bank of the Humber Estuary, east of the watercourse known as Hedon Haven. The village is situated approximately 6 miles east of Kingston upon Hull.

    3.3 km · lighthouse in Paull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Craven Park

    Craven Park is a rugby league stadium located in Kingston upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is the home of Hull Kingston Rovers, one of two professional rugby league teams based in the city.

    4.6 km · rugby League stadium in Kingston upon Hull, England · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Augustine's Church, Hedon

    St Augustine's Church is a Church of England parish church located in Hedon, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The church is a Grade I listed building.

    200 m · Grade I listed church in Hedon, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    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.

    5.3 km · church building in Bilton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    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.

    4.9 km · chapel in Wyton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Windmill

    Burton Pidsea Windmill is a historic building on Greens Lane in Burton Pidsea, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. A windmill in Burton Pidsea was first recorded in the 1260s.

    6 km · building in Burton Pidsea, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Lawrence

    St Lawrence's Church is the parish church of Elstronwick, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. Elstronwick was long in the parish of St Peter's Church, Humbleton.

    6 km · church building in Elstronwick, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    All Saints' Church, Burstwick

    All Saints' Church is a former Anglican church in Burstwick, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in the 13th century, from which period the nave and some windows survive.

    3.9 km · Grade I listed church in Burstwick, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Ivy House

    Ivy House is a historic building in Hedon, a town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. It is best known for the collection of mediaeval stonework in its garden.

    400 m · house in Hedon, 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.

Go there

Getting to Hedon

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 97 km · East Midlands (EMA), 126 km · Manchester (MAN), 144 km
Stations
Port of Hull, 5.1 km · Hedon Haven, 2.8 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Hedon
    89 km · quickest by road, 1h 56m · £9–13
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hedon
    108 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £14–19
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Hedon
    138 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £15–20
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hedon

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 Hedon. 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

    346 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    348 km
  3. 03
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    378 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    409 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    416 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hedon

Hedon is 9 km from Kingston upon Hull, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Burstwickvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Thorngumbaldvillage and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, UK2.7 km
  • Elstronwickvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom5.5 km
  • Biltonvillage and civil parish in East Riding of Yorkshire, UK5.3 km
  • Prestonvillage and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England1.9 km
  • Paullvillage and civil parish in East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.2 km