West Bretton

Worth seeing in and around West Bretton

6 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
   Yorkshire 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.

   600 m · sculpture park in West Bretton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
2. 02
   Bretton 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.

   1 km · Georgian country house in West Yorkshire, England, now part of Yorkshire Sculpture Park · Wikipedia
3. 03
   Church 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.

   800 m · church building in West Bretton, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
4. 04
   Whistlestop Valley

   Whistlestop Valley, formerly the Kirklees Light Railway, is a visitor attraction featuring a 3+1⁄2-mile long 15 in gauge minimum-gauge railway. The attraction's main site is in the village of Clayton West in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, England, which was first opened to the public on 19 October 1991, with a second, smaller site in a rural area near the village of Shelley.

   3.8 km · narrow gauge heritage railway in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia
5. 05
   Church 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.

   3.8 km · church in Crigglestone, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
6. 06
   Woolley Hall

   Woolley Hall is a country house in Woolley, West Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.

   4 km · house in Woolley, Wakefield, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to West Bretton

Airports

Leeds Bradford (LBA), 28 km · Manchester (MAN), 56 km · East Midlands (EMA), 89 km

Stations

Clayton West railway station, 3.8 km

• Manchester, Greater Manchester → West Bretton

  47 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £6–8
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• Nottingham, Leicestershire → West Bretton

  79 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £8–11
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• Liverpool → West Bretton

  96 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £10–14
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