Village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England

Scriven

Scriven is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, close to the town of Knaresborough.

Plan a trip to Scriven→From Manchester, Greater Manchester

Every way there

Manchester, Greater Manchester → Scriven
78 km · quickest by road, 2h 12m · £9–12
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Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Scriven
106 km · quickest by road, 2h 10m · £11–15
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Liverpool → Scriven
120 km · quickest by road, 2h 53m · £13–18
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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 Scriven, 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 Scriven has

YScheduled flightsLeeds, West Yorkshire (LBA), 21 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
NFerriesno crossing within 25 km
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, 6 km.

54.021°, -1.470°

From 1947 to 1998 Scriven was part of the Claro Registration District, until this was abolished. It is situated north-west of the A6055 road from Bond End and situated north-east of the B6165 Ripley Road.

How locals move

Getting around Scriven 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: Alison Newman (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.