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 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.
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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.
- 01Nostell 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 - 02Barnsley 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 - 03Heath 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 - 04All 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
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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 → Sharlston58 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £8–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Sharlston82 km · quickest by road, 2h 1m · £9–12
- Liverpool → Sharlston107 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £12–16
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
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.
- Go nextOther easy day trips include Bradford, Saltaire, Haworth and Sheffield.
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Next door to Sharlston
Sharlston is 17 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Wintersettvillage in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England3.7 km
- West Hardwickvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.2 km
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