Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England

Castley

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

Plan a trip to Castley→From Manchester, Greater Manchester

Every way there

Manchester, Greater Manchester → Castley
64 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £7–10
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Liverpool → Castley
109 km · quickest by road, 2h 30m · £12–16
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Castley
110 km · quickest by road, 2h 38m · £13–17
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The field note

What is in and around Castley, 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 Castley has

YScheduled flightsLeeds, West Yorkshire (LBA), 7 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerriesLeeds Water Taxi Dock, 13 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: Harrogate, 10 km.

53.909°, -1.593°

It lies on a bend in the River Wharfe about 10 miles (16 km) north of the centre of Leeds. The population of the civil parish was estimated at 70 in 2015. The village appears in the Domesday Book as Castleai, a combination of castel, and lēah, meaning the clearing near the fort.

How locals move

Getting around Castley the local way

Get inP&O Ferries sail overnight to Hull from Rotterdam in the Netherlands.

From Wikivoyage: Yorkshire, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-08.

Text adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Tony Castley (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.