Village in West Yorkshire, England

Havercroft

Havercroft is a small village situated on the B6428 in West Yorkshire, England, approximately 6½ miles north-east of the centre of Barnsley.

Plan a trip to Havercroft→From Manchester, Greater Manchester

Every way there

Manchester, Greater Manchester → Havercroft
57 km · quickest by road, 1h 52m · £8–11
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Havercroft
76 km · quickest by road, 1h 55m · £9–11
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Liverpool → Havercroft
107 km · quickest by road, 2h 34m · £12–17
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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 Havercroft, 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 Havercroft has

YScheduled flightsLeeds, West Yorkshire (LBA), 33 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerriesLeeds Water Taxi Dock, 21 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, 9 km.

53.617°, -1.402°

It forms part of the civil parish of Havercroft with Cold Hiendley, which has a population of 2,103, increasing to 2,256 at the 2011 Census.

How locals move

Getting around Havercroft 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: Mark Stevenson (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.