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Langsett

Langsett is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England.

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The place

Langsett is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England. It lies on the edge of the Peak District National Park. At the 2001 census it had a population of 161, increasing to 222 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Langsett

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.

  1. 01
    Langsett Reservoir

    Langsett Reservoir is in the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, near the villages of Langsett and Upper Midhope, on the edge of the Peak District National Park. The reservoir was constructed between 1898 and 1904, and is now managed by Yorkshire Water.

    600 m · reservoir in South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St James' Church, Midhopestones

    St James’ Church, Midhopestones is situated in the small rural hamlet of Midhopestones, just within the northern boundary of the City of Sheffield in South Yorkshire. Since April 1969 it has been a Grade II* listed building.

    2.3 km · church in Bradfield, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Midhope Reservoir

    Midhope Reservoir is an upland body of fresh water that impounds moorland streams and overflows via Hagg Brook into the Little Don River in South Yorkshire, England. The reservoir was built by the Barnsley Corporation Waterworks, then becoming part of Yorkshire Water in 1973.

    1.4 km · reservoir in South Yorkshire, England · 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.

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Getting to Langsett

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 41 km · Manchester (MAN), 43 km · East Midlands (EMA), 78 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Langsett
    34 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · £4.5–6
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Langsett
    37 km · quickest by road, 1h 13m · £4–5
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Langsett
    70 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–11
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Langsett

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 Langsett. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get aroundthere's a local minibus service that provides journeys to various villages dotted about the valley.

From Wikivoyage: Holmfirth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2023-04.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    314 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    321 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    329 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    356 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    383 km

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

Around it

Next door to Langsett

Langsett is 19 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Millhouse Greenvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.7 km
  • Cubleyvillage in South Yorkshire, England3.5 km
  • Midhopestonesvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.2 km
  • Thurlstonevillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK3.6 km
  • Catshawhamlet in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England3 km
  • Upper Midhopevillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK700 m