Swanland

Worth seeing in and around Swanland

5 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
   Ferriby Boats

   The Ferriby Boats are three Bronze-Age British sewn plank-built boats, parts of which were discovered at North Ferriby in the East Riding of the English county of Yorkshire. Only a small number of boats of a similar period have been found in Britain and the Ferriby examples are the earliest known sewn-plank boats found in Europe, as well as the oldest known sewn-plank boats in the world outside of Egypt.

   3.2 km · museum ships in the UK · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Hessle Town Hall

   Hessle Town Hall is a municipal building in South Lane, Hessle, East Riding of Yorkshire, England. It is the meeting place of Hessle Town Council.

   4 km · municipal Building in England · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Tranby Croft

   Tranby Croft is a large Grade II listed Victorian country house and estate at Anlaby, near Hull in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The house is now the co-educational, independent day school, Tranby School.

   2.8 km · country house in the East Riding, UK · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Hesslewood

   Hesslewood Hall, also known as Hesslewood House, is a historic building in Hessle, a town in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. The first Hesslewood Hall was built in the early 18th century, and from 1749 was owned by the Pease family.

   3 km · building in Hessle, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Church of Saint Andrew

   St Andrew's Church is the parish church of Kirk Ella, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. The church was built in the early 13th century, from which period the chancel survives.

   2.9 km · church in Kirk Ella, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Swanland

Airports

Leeds Bradford (LBA), 78 km · East Midlands (EMA), 115 km · Manchester (MAN), 126 km

Stations

Ferriby railway station, 2.8 km

• Leeds, West Yorkshire → Swanland

  70 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £8–10
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → Swanland

  98 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £12–16
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• Manchester, Greater Manchester → Swanland

  119 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £13–18
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No local-transport research exists yet for Swanland

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

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