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

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.
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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.
- 01Nostell 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 - 02Kinsley 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 - 03Six 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 - 04Grimethorpe 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 - 05Hodroyd 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.
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 → Hemsworth60 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £6–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hemsworth75 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–11
- Liverpool → Hemsworth110 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £13–17
- 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 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.
- 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 Hemsworth
Hemsworth is 24 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- South Elmsalltown and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, UK5.3 km
- Brierleytown in South Yorkshire, UK2.8 km
- Ackworthvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, UK5.6 km
- Badsworthvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.5 km
- South Kirkby and Moorthorpetown in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.3 km
- Thorpe Audlinvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, UK5.5 km