Skellow
Skellow is a village in the Doncaster district, in the county of South Yorkshire, England.
Skellow is a village in the Doncaster district, in the county of South Yorkshire, England. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the village is roughly 5 miles (8 km) north-west of Doncaster. The village falls in the Askern Spa Ward of Doncaster MBC. To the north and south is mixed farmland, the A1 runs immediately along the western edge of the village, and to the east Skellow merges with the adjacent village of Carcroft along the B1220 road.
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Worth seeing in and around Skellow
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.
- 01Highfields Lake
Highfields Lake is an ornamental lake in the Woodlands wildlife park at Highfields, north of Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England. It is filled by the Pick Burn, which then flows on to join the River Don as Bentley Mill Stream.
2.5 km · lake in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 02Robin Hood's Well
Robin Hood's Well is a historic structure beside the A1 road near Burghwallis, South Yorkshire, England. It was originally built in 1710 as a well house over a spring alongside the old Great North Road, but the structure was moved to its present location alongside the Doncaster By-Pass in what is known as Barnsdale.
2.8 km · historic building in Barnsdale, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Skellow
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 44 km · Manchester (MAN), 77 km · East Midlands (EMA), 84 km
- Stations
- Adwick railway station, 1.1 km
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Skellow32 km · quickest by road, 45 min · £3.5–5
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Skellow69 km · quickest by road, 1h 51m · £9–12
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Skellow71 km · quickest by road, 1h 40m · £8–11
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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 Skellow
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 Skellow. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
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If you know how people move in Skellow – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.
Next door to Skellow
Skellow is 29 km from Sheffield, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
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- Brodsworthvillage and civil parish in South Yorkshire, England, UK3.8 km
- Burghwallisvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK2.3 km
- Owstonvillage and civil parish in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, England2.3 km
- Adwick le Streetvillage in South Yorkshire, UK1.1 km
- Skelbrookevillage in South Yorkshire, England3.6 km