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Wheldrake

Wheldrake is a village and civil parish located 7 miles (11 km) south-east of York in the unitary authority of the City of York, which is in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.

Wheldrake
Wheldrake · James@hopgrove at English Wikipedia
The place

Wheldrake is a village and civil parish located 7 miles (11 km) south-east of York in the unitary authority of the City of York, which is in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. According to the 2001 census the parish had a population of 1,909, increasing to 2,107 at the 2011 census.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wheldrake

7 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 Air Museum and Allied Air Forces Memorial

    The Yorkshire Air Museum & Allied Air Forces Memorial is an aviation museum in Elvington, York, England, on the site of the former RAF Elvington airfield, a Second World War RAF Bomber Command station. The museum was founded, and first opened to the public, in the mid 1980s.

    3.2 km · aviation museum in the United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Sutton Bridge

    Sutton Bridge is a historic bridge in Yorkshire, in England. The bridge crosses the River Derwent, linking Elvington in the City of York with Sutton-upon-Derwent in the East Riding of Yorkshire.

    3.5 km · bridge between Sutton upon Derwent and Elvington, Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Church of Saint Michael and All Angels

    The Church of St Michael and All Angels is an Anglican church in the village of Sutton upon Derwent in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. The oldest parts of the church date back to the 12th century and the church is now a grade I listed building.

    3.3 km · church in Sutton upon Derwent, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    St Helen's Church, Thorganby

    St Helen's Church is the parish church of Thorganby, a village in the county of North Yorkshire, in England. A church in Thorganby was first recorded in 1228, but by 1312 it was regarded as only a chapel in the parish of Aughton.

    3.3 km · Grade I listed church in Thorganby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    St Helen's Church, Wheldrake

    St Helen's Church is the parish church in Wheldrake, a village in the rural south-eastern part of the City of York, in England. The oldest part of the church is the tower, which dates from the 14th century, but was rebuilt in the 15th century, with larger stones.

    100 m · church in Wheldrake, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Thorganby Hall

    Thorganby Hall is a historic building in Thorganby, North Yorkshire, a village in England. The house was first recorded in 1772, but probably had a long history as the manor house, owned by the Annesley family.

    3.4 km · house in Thorganby, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St.Mary

    St Mary's Church is the parish church of East Cottingwith, a village in the East Riding of Yorkshire, in England. The church was probably completed in 1786, replacing an earlier chapel.

    3.1 km · church building in Cottingwith, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Wheldrake

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 46 km · Manchester (MAN), 106 km · East Midlands (EMA), 121 km
  • Leeds, West Yorkshire → Wheldrake
    40 km · quickest by road, 1h 1m · £5–6
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wheldrake
    96 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £11–15
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Wheldrake
    106 km · quickest by road, 2h 29m · £12–16
  • From anywhere
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wheldrake

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inApproach from Leeds using the A64, and from Hull (for ferries from Rotterdam) by the A1079.

From Wikivoyage: York, 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

    327 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    357 km
  3. 03
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    359 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    387 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    393 km

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

Around it

Next door to Wheldrake

Wheldrake is 40 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Sutton upon Derwentvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK3.1 km
  • Elvingtonvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, UK2.4 km
  • Thorganbyvillage and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, UK3 km
  • East Cottingwithvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, UK3.3 km
  • Storwoodvillage in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom2.9 km