Sitlington
Sitlington, historically Shitlington, was a township in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Thornhill in the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire comprising the villages and hamlets of Middlestown, Netherton, Overton and Midgley.
Sitlington, historically Shitlington, was a township in the ancient ecclesiastical parish of Thornhill in the wapentake of Agbrigg and Morley in the West Riding of Yorkshire comprising the villages and hamlets of Middlestown, Netherton, Overton and Midgley. The h was dropped from Shitlington and Sitlington was adopted in 1929 with the approval of the county council. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 census was 5,963.
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Worth seeing in and around Sitlington
7 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.
- 01Yorkshire Sculpture Park
The Yorkshire Sculpture Park is an art gallery, with both open-air and indoor exhibition spaces, in West Bretton, Wakefield, in West Yorkshire, England. It shows work by British and international artists, including Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth.
3 km · sculpture park in West Bretton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02National Coal Mining Museum for England
National Coal Mining Museum for England is based at the site of Caphouse Colliery in Overton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It opened in 1988 as the Yorkshire Mining Museum and was granted national status in 1995.
2.7 km · coal mining museum in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Bretton Hall
Bretton Hall is a country house in West Bretton near Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It housed Bretton Hall College from 1949 until 2001 and was a campus of the University of Leeds from 2001 to 2007.
3.3 km · Georgian country house in West Yorkshire, England, now part of Yorkshire Sculpture Park · Wikipedia - 04Church In Bretton Park
St Bartholomew's Chapel is a former estate church in the grounds of Bretton Hall, in West Bretton near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. The redundant Grade II* listed chapel has been restored as gallery space for the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
3.3 km · church building in West Bretton, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 05St Peter and St Leonard's Church, Horbury
St Peter and St Leonard's Church, Horbury is in Horbury, West Yorkshire, England. It is an active Church of England parish church and part of the Wakefield deanery in the archdeaconry of Pontefract, diocese of Wakefield and commonly known as St Peter's.
2.9 km · Grade I listed church in Horbury, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 06Horbury Town Hall
Horbury Town Hall is a former municipal building in Westfield Road, Horbury, West Yorkshire, England. The structure, which is now used as business centre, is a locally listed building.
2.7 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia - 07Church of St John the Divine, Calder Grove
The Church of St John the Divine, designed by William Swinden Barber, was built as a mission church in 1892–1893 in the parish of St James, Chapelthorpe, Crigglestone, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. It is Grade II listed.
3 km · church in Crigglestone, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Sitlington
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 26 km · Manchester (MAN), 56 km · Liverpool John Lennon (LPL), 91 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Sitlington46 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £6–8
- Liverpool → Sitlington95 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £10–14
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Sitlington82 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £9–11
- 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 Sitlington
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 Sitlington. 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 Sitlington
Sitlington is 18 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- West Brettonvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, UK2.5 km
- Crigglestonevillage in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK3.8 km
- Horburylarge village in the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England2.7 km
- Thornhillvillage in Dewsbury, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England3.3 km
- Middlestownvillage in West Yorkshire, England, in the civil parish of Sitlington1.7 km
- Flocktonvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.8 km