Town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England

Hemsworth

Hemsworth is a town and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England.

Plan a trip to Hemsworth→From Manchester, Greater Manchester

Every way there

Manchester, Greater Manchester → Hemsworth
60 km · quickest by road, 1h 54m · £6–9
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Hemsworth
75 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–11
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Liverpool → Hemsworth
110 km · quickest by road, 2h 36m · £13–17
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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 Hemsworth, 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 Hemsworth has

YScheduled flightsLeeds, West Yorkshire (LBA), 35 km
YTrains and coachesTransitous carries 3 timetable feeds for this country, 2 with real-time
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.

53.610°, -1.350°

Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire it had a population of 13,311 at the 2001 census, with it increasing to 13,533 at the 2011 Census. The town lies 7½ miles from Barnsley, 7 miles from Pontefract and 9 miles from Wakefield.

How locals move

Getting around Hemsworth 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.