Kilnhurst
Kilnhurst is a village in South Yorkshire, England, on the banks of the River Don and the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation.
Kilnhurst is a village in South Yorkshire, England, on the banks of the River Don and the Sheffield and South Yorkshire Navigation. It grew up around the coal mining, ceramics, glass, brick-making and locomotive industries; none of these industries remain in the village.
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Worth seeing in and around Kilnhurst
One place 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 St John the Baptist
St John the Baptist Church is the parish church of Mexborough in South Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in the 12th century, and the core survives from this period.
3 km · church in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kilnhurst
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 50 km · Manchester (MAN), 66 km · East Midlands (EMA), 71 km
- Stations
- Swinton railway station, 1.8 km · Mexborough railway station, 2.6 km · Swinton Town railway station, 2 km · Thrybergh Tins railway station, 2.5 km · Mexborough (Ferry Boat) Halt railway station, 3 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Kilnhurst39 km · quickest by road, 1h 6m · £5–6
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Kilnhurst28 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £3.5–4.5
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Kilnhurst59 km · quickest by road, 1h 26m · £6–8
- 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 Kilnhurst
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 Kilnhurst. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Go nextFor a day trip by public transport, the most accessible is along the Hope Valley railway line through Grindleford, Hathersage, Hope and Edale.
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Next door to Kilnhurst
Kilnhurst is 14 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Mexboroughtown in the Metropolitan Borough of Doncaster in South Yorkshire, England3 km
- Thryberghvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.3 km
- Daltonvillage and civil parish in South Yorkshire, England, UK3.1 km
- Swintontown in South Yorkshire, England2 km
- Rawmarshlarge village in the Metropolitan Borough of Rotherham, in South Yorkshire, England2.6 km
- Adwick upon Dearnevillage and civil parish in South Yorkshire, United Kingdom3.5 km