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Kexbrough

Kexbrough is a village in the Barnsley district, in the county of South Yorkshire, England, on the border with West Yorkshire.

Kexbrough
Kexbrough · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Kexbrough is a village in the Barnsley district, in the county of South Yorkshire, England, on the border with West Yorkshire. The village falls within the Darton West ward of Barnsley MBC. It is located west of the M1 motorway, just south of Junction 38 at an elevation of around 351 feet (107 m) above sea level. Historically the village was known as Kexborough, and includes the hamlets of Haigh and Swithin. Until 1974 it was in the West Riding of Yorkshire.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Kexbrough

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
    Cannon Hall

    Cannon Hall is a country house between the villages of Cawthorne and High Hoyland some 5 miles west of Barnsley in South Yorkshire, England. Originally the home of the Spencer and subsequently the Spencer-Stanhope family, it houses collections of fine furniture, paintings, ceramics and glassware.

    3.5 km · country house museum in Cawthorne, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of All Saints

    The Church of All Saints is the parish church in the village of Darton in South Yorkshire, England. It is a Church of England church in the Diocese of Leeds.

    800 m · Anglican church in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church In Bretton Park

    St Bartholomew's Chapel is a former estate church in the grounds of Bretton Hall, in West Bretton near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. The redundant Grade II* listed chapel has been restored as gallery space for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.

    3.9 km · church building in West Bretton, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Church of All Saints, Silkstone

    The Church of All Saints is the parish church in the village of Silkstone in South Yorkshire, England. It is a Church of England church in the Diocese of Leeds.

    3.8 km · Anglican church in Silkstone, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Pot House Hamlet

    Silkstone glassworks is situated at Pot House Hamlet, a historic former industrial site in Silkstone, South Yorkshire, England. A glass works was established at Silkstone around 1659 by John Pilmey, who had emigrated from France some years earlier.

    3.8 km · industrial site in Silkstone, South Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · 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 Kexbrough

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 33 km · Manchester (MAN), 55 km · East Midlands (EMA), 84 km
Stations
Darton railway station, 1.1 km · Staincross and Mapplewell railway station, 3.6 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Kexbrough
    47 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £5–7
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Kexbrough
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £8–11
  • Liverpool → Kexbrough
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £11–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Kexbrough

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 Kexbrough. 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 ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    321 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    322 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    341 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    355 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    382 km

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

Around it

Next door to Kexbrough

Kexbrough is 22 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Cawthornevillage in South Yorkshire, United Kingdom2.5 km
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