Wintersett
Wintersett is a hamlet in the Wakefield district, in West Yorkshire, England.
Wintersett is a hamlet in the Wakefield district, in West Yorkshire, England. At the 2001 census the population of the parish was 50. Until 1974 it formed part of Wakefield Rural District in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It gives its name to the nearby Wintersett Reservoir.
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Worth seeing in and around Wintersett
4 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.
- 01Nostell Priory
Nostell Priory is a Palladian house in Nostell, West Yorkshire, in England, near Crofton and on the road to Doncaster from Wakefield. It dates from 1733 and was built for the Winn family on the site of a medieval priory.
2.8 km · historic house located in West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Walton Hall
Walton Hall is a country house in Walton near Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England. It was built on the site of a former moated medieval hall in the Palladian style in 1767 on an island in a 26-acre lake.
2 km · Grade II* listed house in Walton, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 03Hodroyd Hall
Hodroyd Hall at South Hiendley in the parish of Felkirk near Barnsley in West Yorkshire, England is an Elizabethan manor house currently used as 3 dwellings. It is Grade II listed.
3.1 km · house in South Hiendley, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 04Kinsley Greyhound Stadium
Kinsley Greyhound Stadium is a Greyhound Board of Great Britain regulated greyhound racing stadium situated on Wakefield Road in Kinsley, West Yorkshire, England.
3.8 km · Greyhound racing stadium in England · Wikipedia
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Getting to Wintersett
- Airports
- Leeds Bradford (LBA), 30 km · Manchester (MAN), 65 km · East Midlands (EMA), 90 km
- Stations
- Fitzwilliam railway station, 3.2 km · Ryhill railway station, 1.5 km
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Wintersett57 km · quickest by road, 1h 49m · £8–10
- Nottingham, Leicestershire → Wintersett78 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · £9–12
- Liverpool → Wintersett106 km · quickest by road, 2h 31m · £12–16
- 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 Wintersett
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 Wintersett. 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 Wintersett
Wintersett is 20 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Roystonvillage within the Metropolitan borough of Barnsley, in South Yorkshire, England3.5 km
- South Hiendleyvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, UK3.5 km
- Croftonvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, UK2.6 km
- Ryhillvillage in West Yorkshire, England, UK2.6 km
- Waltonvillage and civil parish in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK2.9 km
- Sharlstonvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.7 km