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Hemsworth

Hemsworth is a town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England.

Hemsworth
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The place

Hemsworth is a town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England. Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire it had a population of 13,311 at the 2001 census, with it increasing to 13,533 at the 2011 Census. The town lies 7½ miles from Barnsley, 7 miles from Pontefract and 9 miles from Wakefield.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hemsworth

5 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
    Nostell Priory

    Nostell Priory is a Palladian house in Nostell, West Yorkshire, in England, near Crofton and on the road to Doncaster from Wakefield. It dates from 1733 and was built for the Winn family on the site of a medieval priory.

    5.4 km · historic house located in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Kinsley 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.

    2.1 km · Greyhound racing stadium in England · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Six Arches

    The Six Arches is a railway viaduct in Ackworth, West Yorkshire, England, named after its design. It carries the Pontefract to Rotherham line over the River Went.

    4.5 km · railway viaduct in Ackworth, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Grimethorpe Hall

    Grimethorpe Hall is a manor house in Grimethorpe, South Yorkshire, England. Built circa 1670 for Robert Seaton, it is thought to be in the style of York architect Robert Trollope.

    3.8 km · house in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Hodroyd 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.

    4 km · house in South Hiendley, Wakefield, West 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 Hemsworth

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 35 km · Manchester (MAN), 68 km · East Midlands (EMA), 87 km
Stations
Fitzwilliam railway station, 3 km · Moorthorpe railway station, 3.4 km · South Elmsall railway station, 4.6 km · Ackworth railway station, 5.5 km · Frickley railway station, 6 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Hemsworth
    60 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £6–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hemsworth
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–11
  • Liverpool → Hemsworth
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £13–17
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hemsworth

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 Hemsworth. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    325 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    328 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    352 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    361 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    389 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hemsworth

Hemsworth is 24 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.