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 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.
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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.
- 01Church 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 - 02All 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 - 03Red 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 - 04All 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 - 05Church 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 - 06St 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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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 → Hessay87 km · quickest by road, 2h 9m · £11–14
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Hessay114 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £12–16
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hessay113 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £13–17
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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.
- Get inApproach from Leeds using the A64, and from Hull (for ferries from Rotterdam) by the A1079.
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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