Wakefield
Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England, located on the River Calder.
Wakefield is a cathedral city in West Yorkshire, England, located on the River Calder. The city had a population of 109,766 in the 2021 census, up from 99,251 in the 2011 census. The city is the administrative centre of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Wakefield, which had a 2025 population of 369,450, the 26th most populous district in England. It is part of the West Yorkshire Built-up Area and the Yorkshire and the Humber region.
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Getting to Wakefield
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 23 km · Manchester (MAN), 64 km · East Midlands (EMA), 95 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wakefield54 km · quickest by road, 1h 32m · £7–9
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Wakefield84 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £9–12
- Liverpool → Wakefield102 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15
- 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 Wakefield
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 Wakefield. 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.
From Wikivoyage: Wakefield (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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Next door to Wakefield
Wakefield is 13 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.