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Scarcroft

Scarcroft is a village and civil parish 6 miles (10 km) north east of Leeds city centre in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England.

Scarcroft
Scarcroft · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Scarcroft is a village and civil parish 6 miles (10 km) north east of Leeds city centre in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. The village lies on the main A58 road between Leeds and Wetherby. It had a population of 1,153 increasing to 1,194 at the 2011 Census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Scarcroft

3 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 Hallows

    All Hallows Church in Bardsey, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds. The Bardsey Millennium Tapestry, created by many people from the village, is hung at the west end of the north wall of the church.

    1.8 km · church in Bardsey, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Roundhay Park

    Roundhay Park in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, is a large urban park situated on the north-east edge of the city, bordered by the suburb of Roundhay to the west, Oakwood to the south and the A6120 outer ring road to the north. It covers more than 700 acres of parkland, lakes, woodland and gardens which are owned by decree of Charles Frederick Thackray and the Nicholson family by the People of the City of Leeds, it is not owned by Leeds City Council but they manage it for the citizens of Leeds.

    3.9 km · park in Roundhay, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St. Peter's Church, Thorner

    St Peter's Church in Thorner, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds. The church is part of Elmete Trinity Benefice, which consists of the parishes of All Saints, Barwick in Elmet, St Philip's, Scholes and St Peter's, Thorner.

    1.9 km · church in Thorner, 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.

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Getting to Scarcroft

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 14 km · Manchester (MAN), 79 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 110 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Scarcroft
    67 km · quickest by road, 1h 43m · £7–10
  • Liverpool → Scarcroft
    113 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £11–15
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Scarcroft
    103 km · quickest by road, 2h 20m · £12–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Scarcroft

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFerries sail overnight from Rotterdam (Netherlands) to Kingston upon Hull.
  • Get inHull is an hour by train or car from Leeds, and the ferry port is 3 miles east of Hull city centre: buses run from there to the railway station.
  • Go nextLeeds is a major transport hub, so many outlying attractions can be done as day trips.

From Wikivoyage: Leeds, 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

    304 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    337 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    354 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    365 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    370 km

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

Around it

Next door to Scarcroft

Scarcroft is 10 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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  • Bardseyvillage in West Yorkshire, UK2 km
  • Bardsey cum Rigtoncivil parish in West Yorkshire, England1.8 km
  • Wothersomevillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.8 km