Town and civil parish in South Yorkshire, England

Askern

Askern is a town and civil parish within the City of Doncaster, in South Yorkshire, England.

Plan a trip to Askern→From Leeds, West Yorkshire

Every way there

Leeds, West Yorkshire → Askern
33 km · quickest by road, 50 min · £4–5
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Manchester, Greater Manchester → Askern
73 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £9–12
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Askern
74 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–11
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The field note

What is in and around Askern, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

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What Askern has

YScheduled flightsLeeds, West Yorkshire (LBA), 44 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
YDriving and taxiOpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
NBike and scooter shareno share feed known
NCruisesno open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

53.617°, -1.150°

It is on the A19 road between Doncaster and Selby. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it had a population of 5,570 at the 2011 Census. Askern was also known in for its greyhound stadium, which closed in 2022.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: penske666 from United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.