Town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England

Featherstone

Featherstone is a town and civil parish in the City of Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England, two miles south-west of Pontefract.

Plan a trip to Featherstone→From Manchester, Greater Manchester

Every way there

Manchester, Greater Manchester → Featherstone
62 km · quickest by road, 1h 39m · £8–10
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Featherstone
72 km · quickest by road, 1h 42m · £8–11
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Liverpool → Featherstone
104 km · quickest by road, 2h 21m · £12–16
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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 Featherstone, 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 Featherstone has

YScheduled flightsLeeds, West Yorkshire (LBA), 27 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
YFerriesLeeds Water Taxi Dock, 15 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.

53.700°, -1.370°

Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, in 2011 it had a population of 15,244. Featherstone railway station is on the Pontefract Line.

How locals move

Getting around Featherstone 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: Mtaylor848 (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.