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Hessay

Hessay is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of York, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England 4.7 miles (7.5 km) west of York.

Hessay
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The place

Hessay is a village and civil parish in the unitary authority area of the City of York, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England 4.7 miles (7.5 km) west of York.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Hessay

6 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
    Church of All Saints, Long Marston

    All Saints' Church is the parish church of Long Marston, a village in the county of North Yorkshire, in England. A chapel was built at the location in the Norman period, but by 1400 both it and the parish church, near Angram, were in ruins.

    3.2 km · church in Long Marston, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    All Saints' Church, Moor Monkton

    All Saints' Church is the parish church of Moor Monkton, a village north-west of York in England. The church dates from the 12th century, when the nave and chancel were constructed.

    3 km · church in Moor Monkton, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Red House School Chapel

    The Red House is a historic building in Moor Monkton, north-west of York in England.

    3.8 km · chapel in Moor Monkton, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    All Saints' Church, Rufforth

    All Saints' Church is the parish church of the village of Rufforth, in the rural western part of the City of York, in England. A church was constructed on the site in the 12th century.

    1.9 km · church in Rufforth, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints' Church is the parish church of Upper Poppleton, a village in the rural north-western part of the City of York district, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

    3.2 km · church building in Upper Poppleton, York, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    St John The Baptist Church

    St John the Baptist's Church is an Anglican church in Hessay, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. Until the late 19th century, villagers in Hessay travelled to All Saints' Church, Moor Monkton to worship.

    300 m · church in Hessay, York · Wikipedia

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Go there

Getting to Hessay

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 32 km · Manchester (MAN), 99 km · Newcastle (NCL), 122 km
Stations
Poppleton railway station, 3.6 km · Rufforth Airfield, 3.1 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Hessay
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £11–14
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Hessay
    114 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £12–16
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hessay
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Hessay

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inApproach from Leeds using the A64, and from Hull (for ferries from Rotterdam) by the A1079.

From Wikivoyage: York, 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 ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    309 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    341 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    365 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    369 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    389 km

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

Around it

Next door to Hessay

Hessay is 30 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Overtonvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Upper Poppletonvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Rufforthvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK2.1 km
  • Moor Monktonvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.9 km
  • Long Marstonvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, UK3.1 km