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Pocklington

Pocklington is a market town and civil parish at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

Pocklington
Pocklington · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Pocklington is a market town and civil parish at the foot of the Yorkshire Wolds in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. At the 2021 United Kingdom census, its population was 10,123. It lies 13 miles (21 km) east of York, and 22 miles (35 km) north-west of Hull.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Pocklington

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.

  1. 01
    Church of All Saints, Pocklington

    All Saints' Church, Pocklington is the Anglican parish church for the town of Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is also known locally as the Cathedral of the Wolds.

    100 m · church in Pocklington, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of Saint Botolph

    St Botolph's Church is the parish church of Allerthorpe, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. There was a church in Allerthorpe in the Mediaeval period, a small building with a chancel, nave, south porch and bellcote.

    2.4 km · church building in Allerthorpe, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of St Catherine

    St Catherine's Church is the parish church of Barmby Moor, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. A church existed in Barmby Moor by the 11th century.

    2.7 km · church in Barmby Moor, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    The Manor House

    The Manor House is a historic building on Hall Spout in Barmby Moor, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The site has a long history as a manor house, first being recorded around 1295, and a medieval moat surrounds the current building.

    2.5 km · house in Barmby Moor, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Bielby Mill And House

    Bielby Mill is a historic building in Bielby, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. The watermill and adjacent house were constructed in the late 18th century.

    5.3 km · building in Bielby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Giles

    St Giles' Church is the parish church of Bielby, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in the late 12th century and initially consisted of a nave and chancel.

    5.5 km · church in Bielby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St. Martin

    St Martin's Church is the parish church of Hayton, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England. The church was built about 1170, from which period the nave and chancel survive.

    3.5 km · church in Hayton, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of Saint Giles

    St Giles' Church is an Anglican church in Burnby, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. The nave of the church was built in the late 12th century, and the chancel early in the 13th century.

    4.2 km · church in Burnby, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Church of St Margaret

    St Margaret's Church is the parish church of Millington, East Riding of Yorkshire, a village in England. The church was built in the 12th century, from which period the nave survives.

    3.9 km · church in Millington, Yorkshire, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Church of Saint Ethelburgh

    St Ethelburga's Church, also known as St Ethelburgh's Church, is an Anglican church in Great Givendale, a hamlet in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. A church was built in Great Givendale around 1150.

    5 km · church in Great Givendale, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · 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.

See

What Wikivoyage says to see

  1. 01
    Burnby Hall Gardens & Museum

From Wikivoyage: Pocklington, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Do

Things to do

  1. 01
    Pocklington Canal

    Every Sunday from Easter to the end of October, the Pocklington Canal Society runs restored river boats on the renovated and once again navigable part of the river for free (donations appreciated).

  2. 02
    Pocklington Buddhist Centre

From Wikivoyage: Pocklington, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Eat

Where to eat

Sonali (Indian), 4 Saint Peters Square,. Thali (Indian), 13 Railway Street,. Pane E Vino (Italian), 16 Market Place,. The Garden (Chinese), 12 Railway Street,. Fui Sing (Take-away Chinese), 3 George Street,. Bella Vita (Take-away Italian), 78 Market Street,. Franks Kebabs and Pizza (Take-away), 21 Railway Street,. The World Peace Cafe Pocklington. Lovely non-profit vegetarian cafe located at Kilnwick Percy Hall.

From Wikivoyage: Pocklington, CC BY-SA 4.0. Not yet checked by us.

Go there

Getting to Pocklington

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 58 km · Manchester (MAN), 118 km · East Midlands (EMA), 128 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Pocklington
    53 km · quickest by road, 1h 21m · £6–8
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Pocklington
    108 km · quickest by road, 2h 33m · £12–16
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Pocklington
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 40m · £12–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Pocklington

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

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    334 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    362 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    366 km
  4. 04
    VlielandNL

    10 ways of moving, 47 sources

    387 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    394 km

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

Around it

Next door to Pocklington

Pocklington is 36 km from Kingston upon Hull, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Barmby Moorvillage in East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK2.6 km
  • Bielbyvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom5.6 km
  • Thorntonvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England5.7 km
  • Allerthorpevillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom2.5 km
  • Nunburnholmea village located in East Riding of Yorkshire, United Kingdom4.7 km
  • Millingtonvillage and civil parish in the East Riding of Yorkshire, UK3.9 km