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Whixley

Whixley is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England.

Whixley
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The place

Whixley is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is near the A1(M) motorway and 10 miles (16 km) west of York. The ancient village of Whixley lies on Rudgate, the old Roman road along which the Roman “Hispania” Legion would have marched to nearby Isurium (Aldborough).

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Whixley

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
    Allerton Castle

    Allerton Castle, also known as Allerton Park, is a Grade I listed nineteenth-century Gothic or Victorian Gothic house at Allerton Mauleverer in North Yorkshire, England. It was rebuilt by architect George Martin, of Baker Street, London in 1843–1853.

    3 km · Grade I listed country house in Allerton Mauleverer, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St John the Baptist church, Kirk Hammerton

    St John the Baptist Church, Kirk Hammerton is a Grade I listed Church of England church located in the village of Kirk Hammerton, North Yorkshire, England. It is notable for its complete, mid tenth century Anglo-Saxon tower, and parts of the 9th century church which now form the south aisle of the present church, the remainder of which dates from later periods.

    3.2 km · Grade I listed church in Kirk Hammerton, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    St Martin's Church, Allerton Mauleverer

    St Martin's Church is a historic Anglican church in the village of Allerton Mauleverer, North Yorkshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade II* listed building, and is under the care of The Churches Conservation Trust.

    2.8 km · church in Allerton Mauleverer with Hopperton, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Holy Trinity Church, Little Ouseburn

    Holy Trinity Church stands to the northeast of the village of Little Ouseburn, North Yorkshire, England. It is an Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ripon, the archdeaconry of Richmond, and the Diocese of Leeds.

    3.4 km · church in Little Ouseburn, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Church of the Ascension

    The Church of the Ascension is an Anglican church in the village of Whixley, North Yorkshire, England. Whilst the Domesday Book entry for Whixley mentions the presence of a church, the main fabric of the existing church dates to the 14th century.

    500 m · church in Whixley, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Chapel Of St Thomas

    St Thomas' Church is an Anglican church in Green Hammerton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was designed by George Gilbert Scott as a chapel of ease to the Church of the Ascension, Whixley and was completed in 1876.

    2 km · chapel in Green Hammerton, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Whixley Hall

    Whixley Hall is a historic building on West Lane in Whixley, a village in North Yorkshire, England. The house may have been built in 1654; there is a datestone with this date, but it has been moved.

    500 m · house in Whixley, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Moat Hall

    Moat Hall is a historic building in Little Ouseburn, a village in North Yorkshire, in England. The house was originally timber framed, and was constructed in or before the 17th century.

    3.2 km · house in Little Ouseburn, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St Mary the Virgin's Church, Great Ouseburn

    St Mary the Virgin's Church is in the village of Great Ouseburn, North Yorkshire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the deanery of Ripon, the archdeaconry of Richmond, and the Diocese of Leeds.

    3.9 km · church in Great Ouseburn, Harrogate, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Whixley

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 28 km · Manchester (MAN), 97 km · Newcastle (NCL), 116 km
Stations
Cattal railway station, 2 km · Hammerton railway station, 3.3 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Whixley
    85 km · quickest by road, 2h 7m · £10–14
  • Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Whixley
    108 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £11–15
  • Liverpool → Whixley
    128 km · quickest by road, 2h 25m · £15–19
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Whixley

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inP&O Ferries sail overnight to Hull from Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

From Wikivoyage: Yorkshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-08.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Isle of ArranGB

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    300 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    332 km
  3. 03
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    360 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    370 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    388 km

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

Around it

Next door to Whixley

Whixley is 28 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.