Hessle and Hill Top
Hessle and Hill Top is a civil parish in the City of Wakefield district of West Yorkshire, England.
Hessle and Hill Top is a civil parish in the City of Wakefield district of West Yorkshire, England. Scattered settlements in the rural parish include Wragby village and the hamlet of Hessle, which is about 1 mile (1.6 km) northwest of the village of Ackworth Moor Top and 3+1⁄2 miles (6 km) southwest of Pontefract. At the 2011 census the parish was grouped with the neighbouring parish of West Hardwick, and a combined population of 138 was recorded.
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Worth seeing in and around Hessle and Hill Top
3 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.
2.8 km · historic house located in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Six 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.
2.3 km · railway viaduct in Ackworth, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Kinsley 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.
3.3 km · Greyhound racing stadium in England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Hessle and Hill Top
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 31 km · Manchester (MAN), 70 km · East Midlands (EMA), 91 km
- Stations
- Fitzwilliam railway station, 2.9 km · Featherstone railway station, 3 km · Ackworth railway station, 2.3 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Hessle and Hill Top62 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £8–11
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hessle and Hill Top79 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £9–12
- Liverpool → Hessle and Hill Top111 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £12–16
- 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 Hessle and Hill Top
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 Hessle and Hill Top. 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.
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Next door to Hessle and Hill Top
Hessle and Hill Top is 21 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Ackworthvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, UK1.5 km
- East Hardwickvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.2 km
- West Hardwickvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK1.6 km
- Ackworth Moor Topvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK1.5 km
- Low Ackworthvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK1.7 km
- Fitzwilliamvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK2.9 km