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Rufforth

Rufforth is a village in the civil parish of Rufforth with Knapton, in the unitary authority area of the City of York in North Yorkshire, England.

Rufforth
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The place

Rufforth is a village in the civil parish of Rufforth with Knapton, in the unitary authority area of the City of York in North Yorkshire, England. It lies about 4 miles (6.4 km) west of York. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book and dates from Saxon times.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Rufforth

6 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 St Mary

    St Mary's Church is the parish church of Askham Richard, a village in the western, rural, part of the City of York in England. The oldest part of the church is a Saxon doorway in the west wall of the vestry, but this was reassembled in the 19th century from parts found embedded in the north wall.

    3.4 km · church in York, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    All Saints' Church, Rufforth

    All Saints' Church is the parish church of the village of Rufforth, in the rural western part of the City of York, in England. A church was constructed on the site in the 12th century.

    300 m · church in Rufforth, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints' Church is the parish church of Upper Poppleton, a village in the rural north-western part of the City of York district, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

    3.7 km · church building in Upper Poppleton, York, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St John The Baptist Church

    St John the Baptist's Church is an Anglican church in Hessay, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. Until the late 19th century, villagers in Hessay travelled to All Saints' Church, Moor Monkton to worship.

    2.4 km · church in Hessay, York · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St Nicholas

    St Nicholas' Church is the parish church of Askham Bryan, near York in England, and is a Grade I listed building. The church was constructed in the 12th-century, while the parish was in the possession of William de Tykhill.

    3.8 km · church in York, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of All Saints, Long Marston

    All Saints' Church is the parish church of Long Marston, a village in the county of North Yorkshire, in England. A chapel was built at the location in the Norman period, but by 1400 both it and the parish church, near Angram, were in ruins.

    2.6 km · church in Long Marston, North 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.

Go there

Getting to Rufforth

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 32 km · Manchester (MAN), 98 km · Newcastle (NCL), 125 km
Stations
Poppleton railway station, 3.7 km · Rufforth Airfield, 1 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Rufforth
    87 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £10–13
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Rufforth
    117 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £13–17
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rufforth
    111 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £12–16
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Rufforth

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inApproach from Leeds using the A64, and from Hull (for ferries from Rotterdam) by the A1079.

From Wikivoyage: York, 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

    311 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    343 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    363 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    371 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    388 km

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Around it

Next door to Rufforth

Rufforth is 29 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Hessayvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK2.1 km
  • Upper Poppletonvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Askham Bryanvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK3.8 km
  • Askham Richardvillage and civil parish in the City of York, North Yorkshire, England3.5 km
  • Long Marstonvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, UK2.8 km
  • Knaptonvillage near York, in North Yorkshire, England3.2 km