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Scholes

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Worth seeing in and around Scholes

5 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
    St Mary's Church, Whitkirk

    St Mary's Church in Whitkirk, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.

    3.2 km · church in Whitkirk, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St. James' Church, Seacroft

    The Church of St James in Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds. The church is Grade II listed.

    2.1 km · church in Seacroft, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of All Saints

    All Saints' Church in Barwick-in-Elmet, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of Leeds and the Diocese of Leeds.

    2.5 km · church in Barwick-in-Elmet, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Crawshaw Woods (Shippen House Farm) Bridge, Hul4/20

    Crawshaw Woods Bridge is a Grade II listed cast iron overbridge which spans the Leeds to Selby railway line between Cross Gates and Garforth railway stations. It is notable for being the oldest railway-associated iron bridge still in daily use on an operational railway.

    2.5 km · bridge in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Austhorpe Hall

    Austhorpe Hall is a house built in 1694 at Austhorpe, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is a grade II* listed building.

    2.5 km · house in Leeds, West 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.

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Getting to Scholes

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 16 km · Manchester (MAN), 77 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 108 km
Stations
Cross Gates railway station, 2.5 km · Thorpe Park railway station, 2.2 km · Seacroft bus station, 2 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Scholes
    66 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–10
  • Liverpool → Scholes
    112 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £12–16
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Scholes
    98 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Scholes

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 Scholes. 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

    308 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    341 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    349 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    367 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    369 km

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

Around it

Next door to Scholes

Scholes is 8 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.