Laxton

Worth seeing in and around Laxton

7 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
   Whitgift Lighthouse

   Whitgift is a small linear village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Twin Rivers, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England approximately 4 miles east of Goole. It is located alongside the River Ouse and north of the A161 road between Goole and Scunthorpe.

   3.8 km · lighthouse in Twin Rivers, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Goole railway swing bridge

   The Goole railway swing bridge, also known as the Hook bridge or Skelton Viaduct, is a large viaducted hogback plate girder bridge with swing span over the River Ouse, Yorkshire, near Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The bridge was designed by Thomas Elliot Harrison for the Hull and Doncaster Branch of the North Eastern Railway and opened in 1869.

   2.7 km · bridge in Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Saltmarshe Hall

   Saltmarshe Hall is a grade II* listed 19th-century country house in Saltmarshe, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, on the north bank of the River Ouse across from Goole. It stands in 17 acres of gardens.

   1.8 km · 19th-century country house in Saltmarshe, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Church of Saint Mary Magdalene, Whitgift

   The Church of St Mary Magdalene is an Anglican church in the hamlet of Whitgift, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The church is noted for its clock which displays the number 13 in Roman numerals in what should be the 12 o'clock position – the only one in Britain to do so.

   3.3 km · church in Whitgift, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Church of St Mary

   St Mary's Church is the parish church of Hook, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England. A church in Hook was first recorded in 1225, but the current building dates from the 14th and 15th centuries.

   3.1 km · church in Hook, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Remains Of Old Church

   Old St Peter's Church is a historic building in Laxton, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England. A chapel of ease to Howden Minster was built in Laxton around 1330, dedicated to John the Evangelist.

   200 m · building in Laxton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
7. 07
   St Peter's Church

   St Peter's Church is the parish church of Laxton, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England. The church was built between 1875 and 1876, to a Decorated Gothic design by Matthew Ellison Hadfield, at a cost of £3,360.

   200 m · church in Laxton, East Riding of Yorkshire · Wikipedia

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Getting to Laxton

Airports

Leeds Bradford (LBA), 59 km · East Midlands (EMA), 105 km · Manchester (MAN), 106 km

Stations

Saltmarshe railway station, 300 m

• Leeds, West Yorkshire → Laxton

  50 km · quickest by road, 1h 19m · £6–8
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  88 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £10–14
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• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Laxton

  98 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £11–15
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