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Ledston

Ledston is a village in the Leeds metropolitan borough, in the county of West Yorkshire, England.

Ledston
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The place

Ledston is a village in the Leeds metropolitan borough, in the county of West Yorkshire, England. It is 3 miles (5 km) north of Castleford and 10 miles (16 km) east of Leeds. The parish had a population of 400 in 2001, which decreased slightly to 394 at the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Ledston

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 24 km · Manchester (MAN), 76 km · East Midlands (EMA), 102 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Ledston
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £8–11
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Ledston
    90 km · quickest by road, 2h 3m · £10–13
  • Liverpool → Ledston
    114 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Ledston

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 Ledston. 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

    317 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    341 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    351 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    364 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    378 km

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Around it

Next door to Ledston

Ledston is 14 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.