Village in West Yorkshire, England

Scissett

Scissett is a village in West Yorkshire, England.

Plan a trip to Scissett→From Manchester, Greater Manchester

Every way there

Manchester, Greater Manchester → Scissett
42 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £5–6
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Liverpool → Scissett
92 km · quickest by road, 2h 14m · £10–14
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Scissett
77 km · quickest by road, 1h 50m · £9–12
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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 Scissett, 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 Scissett has

YScheduled flightsLeeds, West Yorkshire (LBA), 31 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, 23 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, 10 km.

53.588°, -1.627°

It is 10 miles (16 km) south-east of Huddersfield and 8 miles (13 km) north-west of Barnsley. According to the 2001 census, the village had a population of 1,324. Scissett is halfway between the villages of Clayton West, Skelmanthorpe and Denby Dale on the A636 road to Wakefield.

How locals move

Getting around Scissett the local way

Get aroundthere's a local minibus service that provides journeys to various villages dotted about the valley.

From Wikivoyage: Holmfirth, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. That article was last edited 2023-04, so a service it names may have changed or stopped.

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