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Shafton

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Shafton

2 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
    Grimethorpe Hall

    House in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK

    2.2 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Hodroyd Hall

    House in South Hiendley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK

    1.9 km · 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 Shafton

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 35 km · Manchester (MAN), 64 km · East Midlands (EMA), 85 km
Stations
Monk Bretton railway station, 3.2 km · Ryhill railway station, 3.6 km · Notton and Royston railway station, 3.6 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Shafton
    56 km · quickest by road, 1h 47m · £6–8
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Shafton
    73 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £8–11
  • Liverpool → Shafton
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £13–17
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Shafton

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextOther easy day trips include Bradford, Saltaire, Haworth and Sheffield.

From Wikivoyage: Wakefield (England), 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 WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    323 km
  2. 02
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    326 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    348 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    360 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    387 km

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

Around it

Next door to Shafton

Shafton is 24 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Brierleytown in South Yorkshire, UK1.7 km
  • Roystonvillage within the Metropolitan borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England3.3 km
  • South Hiendleyvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, UK1.8 km
  • Ryhillvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK2.7 km
  • Cudworthurban village in South Yorkshire, England1.7 km
  • Grimethorpevillage in South Yorkshire, UK3.2 km