Kippax
Kippax is a town and civil parish in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.
Kippax is a town and civil parish in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is situated to the east of the city, near to Garforth and Great Preston.
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Worth seeing in and around Kippax
10 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.
- 01The Jungle (Wheldon Road)
Wheldon Road is the home ground of Castleford Tigers rugby league club in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England. It is on Wheldon Road, just outside Castleford town centre.
4.6 km · rugby league stadium in Castleford, England · Wikipedia - 02Trinity Methodist Church, Castleford
Trinity Methodist Church, Castleford, is in Castleford, Wakefield District, West Yorkshire, England. The church is part of the Aire and Calder Methodist Circuit in the Yorkshire West District.
4.8 km · church in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 03Lagentium
Lagentium or Legiolum was the Roman name for the fort and surrounding civilian settlement which was built around the year 74 by the Roman Empire. The English town of Castleford, West Yorkshire, is now built on what was the fort.
4.6 km · UK archaeological site · Wikipedia - 04St. Mary's Church, Garforth
The Church of St Mary the Blessed Virgin in Garforth, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.
2.9 km · church in Garforth, UK · Wikipedia - 05Crawshaw Woods (Shippen House Farm) Bridge, Hul4/20
Crawshaw Woods Bridge is a Grade II listed cast iron overbridge which spans the Leeds to Selby railway line between Cross Gates and Garforth railway stations. It is notable for being the oldest railway-associated iron bridge still in daily use on an operational railway.
4.9 km · bridge in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06St. Mary's Church, Swillington
St Mary's Church is located on Church Lane next to Swillington Primary School, on Wakefield Road, Swillington, West Yorkshire, England. There has been a church at this location for at least 900 years.
3.1 km · church in Swillington, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 07Castleford Civic Centre
Castleford Civic Centre is a municipal building in Ferrybridge Road in Castleford, a town in West Yorkshire in England. The building, which was previously the offices and meeting place of the Municipal Borough of Castleford, is now used as a local events venue.
5 km · municipal building in Wakefield · Wikipedia - 08Church of All Saints
The Church of All Saints in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds. The church is Grade II listed.
4.6 km · church in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09St Aidan's
St Aidan's is a 355-hectare nature park located between Leeds and Castleford in West Yorkshire, England. The land was formerly an opencast coal mining area that was flooded in 1988, after the riverbank collapsed.
3.2 km · country Park and RSPB reserve between Leeds and Castleford in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 10Church of All Saints, Ledsham
The Church of All Saints is an Anglican building in the village of Ledsham, West Yorkshire, England, some 10 miles east of Leeds. Parts of the church are originally from the Anglo-Saxon period, which has been the basis of the claim that it is the oldest church still standing within West Yorkshire, and one of the county's oldest buildings.
4.1 km · church in Ledsham, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Kippax
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 22 km · Manchester (MAN), 76 km · East Midlands (EMA), 104 km
- Stations
- Woodlesford railway station, 4.9 km · Castleford railway station, 4.9 km · Micklefield railway station, 3.8 km · Garforth railway station, 3.4 km · East Garforth railway station, 2.8 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Kippax65 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Kippax92 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £10–13
- Liverpool → Kippax113 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £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 Kippax
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 Kippax. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFerries sail overnight from Rotterdam (Netherlands) to Kingston upon Hull.
- Get inHull is an hour by train or car from Leeds, and the ferry port is 3 miles east of Hull city centre: buses run from there to the railway station.
- Go nextLeeds is a major transport hub, so many outlying attractions can be done as day trips.
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If you know how people move in Kippax – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Kippax
Kippax is 12 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Castlefordtown in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England5.7 km
- Garforthtown in Leeds, England3 km
- Allerton Bywatervillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK2.9 km
- Micklefieldvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, UK4.2 km
- Fairburnvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, UK6 km
- Swillingtonvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England3.3 km