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Swillington

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Swillington

9 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
    Rothwell

    Market town in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England

    4 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Temple Newsam

    Grade I listed historic house museum in Leeds, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

    3.3 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Mary's Church, Whitkirk

    Church in Whitkirk, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St. Mary's Church, Garforth

    Church in Garforth, UK

    3.7 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of St John the Evangelist

    Church in Oulton, West Yorkshire, England, UK

    3.4 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Crawshaw Woods (Shippen House Farm) Bridge, Hul4/20

    Bridge in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK

    3.8 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    St. Mary's Church, Swillington

    Church in Swillington, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK

    100 m · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Aidan's

    Country Park and RSPB reserve between Leeds and Castleford in West Yorkshire, England

    2.2 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Oulton Hall

    Country house in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK, now used as a hotel

    3.8 km · 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.

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Getting to Swillington

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 19 km · Manchester (MAN), 74 km · East Midlands (EMA), 104 km
Stations
Garforth railway station, 3.9 km · Woodlesford railway station, 2.1 km · Thorpe Park railway station, 4 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Swillington
    63 km · quickest by road, 1h 34m · £7–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Swillington
    92 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–14
  • Liverpool → Swillington
    110 km · quickest by road, 2h 15m · £11–15
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Swillington

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inFerries sail overnight from Rotterdam (Netherlands) to Kingston upon Hull.
  • Get inHull is an hour by train or car from Leeds, and the ferry port is 3 miles east of Hull city centre: buses run from there to the railway station.
  • Go nextLeeds is a major transport hub, so many outlying attractions can be done as day trips.

From Wikivoyage: Leeds, 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

    312 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    343 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    346 km
  4. 04
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    363 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    374 km

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

Around it

Next door to Swillington

Swillington is 9 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Garforthtown in Leeds, England3.3 km
  • Kippaxvillage and civil parish in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England3.1 km
  • Austhorpecivil parish and suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England3.7 km
  • Great and Little Prestoncivil parish in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK400 m
  • Methleyvillage in West Yorkshire, UK3.4 km
  • Woodlesfordvillage in the City of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England3 km