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Worth seeing in and around Woolley

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.

    3.6 km · sculpture park in West Bretton, Yorkshire, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Church of All Saints

    The Church of All Saints is the parish church in the village of Darton in South Yorkshire, England. It is a Church of England church in the Diocese of Leeds.

    3.4 km · Anglican church in Barnsley, South Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.9 km · Georgian country house in West Yorkshire, England, now part of Yorkshire Sculpture Park · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    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.

    3.3 km · church building in West Bretton, United Kingdom · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Kettlethorpe Hall

    Kettlethorpe Hall is a Georgian house in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England. The hall is a Grade I listed building.

    3.8 km · Grade I listed building in 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.

    500 m · house in Woolley, Wakefield, England, UK · Wikipedia

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Getting to Woolley

Airports
Leeds Bradford (LBA), 30 km · Manchester (MAN), 59 km · East Midlands (EMA), 88 km
Stations
Darton railway station, 3 km · Staincross and Mapplewell railway station, 3.9 km · Notton and Royston railway station, 3.8 km
  • Manchester, Greater Manchester → Woolley
    50 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £6–9
  • Nottingham, Leicestershire → Woolley
    77 km · quickest by road, 1h 45m · £8–11
  • Liverpool → Woolley
    99 km · quickest by road, 2h 23m · £11–14
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Woolley

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

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • 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.

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

    10 ways of moving, 31 sources

    319 km
  2. 02
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    326 km
  3. 03
    LundyGB

    7 ways of moving, 11 sources

    345 km
  4. 04
    Tarbert, Loch Fyne and KintyreGB

    9 ways of moving, 15 sources

    354 km
  5. 05
    Isle of JuraGB

    10 ways of moving, 19 sources

    381 km

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

Around it

Next door to Woolley

Woolley is 20 km from Leeds, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Dartonvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK3.4 km
  • Nottona village located in Wakefield, United Kingdom2.7 km
  • West Brettonvillage and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England, UK3.5 km
  • Crigglestonevillage in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, UK3.4 km
  • Chevetcivil parish in West Yorkshire, UK3.5 km
  • Mapplewellvillage in South Yorkshire, England, UK3.2 km