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Sharlston

Sharlston is a village and civil parish, situated 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, and includes the settlements of Old Sharlston, Sharlston Common and New Sharlston.

Sharlston
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The place

Sharlston is a village and civil parish, situated 4 miles (6.4 km) east of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England, and includes the settlements of Old Sharlston, Sharlston Common and New Sharlston. Its population at the 2001 census was 2,756, reducing to 2,663 at the 2011 Census. The village lies in the City of Wakefield unitary district.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sharlston

4 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
    Nostell Priory

    Nostell Priory is a Palladian house in Nostell, West Yorkshire, in England, near Crofton and on the road to Doncaster from Wakefield. It dates from 1733 and was built for the Winn family on the site of a medieval priory.

    2.5 km · historic house located in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Barnsley Canal

    The Barnsley Canal is a canal that ran from Barnby Basin, through Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, to a junction with the Aire and Calder Navigation near Wakefield, West Yorkshire. It was built in the 1790s, to provide a transport link from coal reserves at Barnsley to a wider market.

    3.8 km · canal in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Heath Hall

    Heath Hall, Heath, Wakefield, West Yorkshire is a country house dating from 1709. Originally called Eshald House, the estate was purchased by John Smyth whose nephew engaged John Carr of York to reconstruct the house between 1754 and 1780.

    3.4 km · Grade I listed building in Heath, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    All Saints Church, Normanton

    All Saints' Church is the parish church in Normanton, West Yorkshire, England.

    3.1 km · grade II listed church in Normanton, Wakefield, 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.

Go there

Getting to Sharlston

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 27 km · Manchester (MAN), 67 km · East Midlands (EMA), 93 km
Stations
Normanton railway station, 3.5 km · Streethouse railway station, 1.1 km · Featherstone railway station, 3.8 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Sharlston
    58 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £8–10
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Sharlston
    82 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £9–12
  • Liverpool → Sharlston
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sharlston

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 Sharlston. 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 ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    320 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    332 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    354 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    354 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    381 km

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

Around it

Next door to Sharlston

Sharlston is 17 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

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