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Wighill

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

Wighill
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The place

Wighill is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is near the River Wharfe and 6 miles (9.7 km) east of Wetherby, West Yorkshire. The village has one public house, the White Swan Inn, which reopened in 2009 after a two-year closure.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Wighill

10 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
    All Saints' Church, Thorp Arch, West Yorkshire

    All Saints' Church in Thorp Arch, West Yorkshire, England is an active Anglican parish church in the Archdeaconry of York and the Diocese of York.

    3.5 km · church in Thorp Arch, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of St Mary

    St Mary's Church is an Anglican parish church in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England. It was built in the 15th century and is an active place of worship.

    3.3 km · church in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tadcaster Bridge

    Tadcaster Bridge or Wharfe Bridge spans the River Wharfe in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England. The road bridge is believed to date from around 1700.

    3.4 km · historic bridge in Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Tadcaster Viaduct

    The Leeds and York Railway was a proposed railway line, promoted in the mid 1840s, intended to connect York and Leeds. The line lost a significant promoter, the Manchester and Leeds Railway in 1845/6 as a result of a non-competition arrangement between that company and the York and North Midland Railway.

    2.9 km · railway viaduct in Tadcaster, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    1, High Street

    The Old Town Hall, also known as 1 High Street, is a former municipal building and historic building in the High Street, Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England. The structure, which now forms part of the headquarters of Samuel Smith's Brewery, is a grade II listed building.

    3.5 km · building in Tadcaster, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Church of St Andrew, Newton Kyme

    St Andrew's Church is the parish church of Newton Kyme, a village west of Tadcaster, in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was originally built in the 12th century, with the nave, western part of the chancel, and lower part of the tower surviving from this date.

    1.8 km · church in Newton Kyme, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Helen

    St Helen's Church is the parish church of Bilton-in-Ainsty, a village west of York in North Yorkshire, in England. Although no church in the village is mentioned in the Domesday Book, the various Saxon fragments incorporated in the current building suggest that there was a previous church on the site.

    3.8 km · church in Bilton-in-Ainsty, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Church of St Peter

    The Church of St. Peter in Walton, near Wetherby in West Yorkshire, England, is an active Anglican parish church in the archdeaconry of York and the Diocese of York.

    3.4 km · church in Walton, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    St John the Baptist Church, Healaugh

    St John the Baptist Church is the parish church of Healaugh, a village west of York and north of Tadcaster in North Yorkshire, in England. The church was originally dedicated to Saint Helen.

    2.9 km · church in Healaugh, Selby, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Thorp Arch Trading Estate

    Thorp Arch Trading Estate is a trading estate, with both industrial and retail space, 3 miles south-east of Wetherby in the City of Leeds metropolitan borough, West Yorkshire, England. The estate occupies the major part of the site of a former Royal Ordnance Factory, ROF Thorp Arch, in the parishes of Thorp Arch and Walton.

    2.5 km · industrial park in West Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia

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Getting to Wighill

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 25 km · Manchester (MAN), 91 km · East Midlands (EMA), 120 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wighill
    80 km · quickest by road, 2h · £9–12
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Wighill
    107 km · quickest by road, 2h 22m · £12–15
  • Liverpool → Wighill
    125 km · quickest by road, 2h 42m · £13–18
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Wighill

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextFor day trips use the bus or Park & Ride.

From Wikivoyage: Tadcaster, 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

    309 km
  2. 02
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    341 km
  3. 03
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    359 km
  4. 04
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    370 km
  5. 05
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    381 km

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

Around it

Next door to Wighill

Wighill is 22 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Tadcastertown in the Selby district of North Yorkshire, England3.3 km
  • Thorp Archvillage and civil parish in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK3.4 km
  • Waltonvillage and civil parish in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK3.2 km
  • Cattertonvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK3.7 km
  • Healaughvillage and civil parish near Tadcaster, North Yorkshire, England, UK2.9 km
  • Bilton-in-Ainstyvillage in North Yorkshire, UK3.5 km