Human settlement in England

Badsworth

Badsworth is a village and civil parish in the City of Wakefield metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England.

Plan a trip to Badsworth→From Manchester, Greater Manchester

Every way there

Manchester, Greater Manchester → Badsworth
64 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £9–12
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Badsworth
76 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11
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Liverpool → Badsworth
113 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £13–18
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Badsworth, 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 Badsworth has

YScheduled flightsLeeds, West Yorkshire (LBA), 36 km
FTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time; a stop for a place this small is unverified
YFerriesLeeds Water Taxi Dock, 24 km; sailings estimated
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. Nearest place with more: Barnsley, 14 km.

53.620°, -1.300°

According to the 2001 census it had a population of 583, increasing to 682 at the 2011 Census. The village is located 6 miles (9.7 km) south of Pontefract.

How locals move

Getting around Badsworth the local way

Go nextOther easy day trips include Bradford, Saltaire, Haworth and Sheffield.

From Wikivoyage: Wakefield (England), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Tim Green from Bradford (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.