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 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.
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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.
- 01Church 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 - 02All 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 - 03Church 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 - 04St 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 - 05Church 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 - 06Church 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
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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 → Rufforth87 km · quickest by road, 2h 2m · £10–13
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Rufforth117 km · quickest by road, 2h 28m · £13–17
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Rufforth111 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £12–16
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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.
- Get inApproach from Leeds using the A64, and from Hull (for ferries from Rotterdam) by the A1079.
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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