Village in South Yorkshire, England

Staincross

Staincross is a village in South Yorkshire, England, on the border with West Yorkshire.

Plan a trip to Staincross→From Manchester, Greater Manchester

Every way there

Manchester, Greater Manchester → Staincross
49 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £5–7
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → Staincross
75 km · quickest by road, 1h 44m · £8–11
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Liverpool → Staincross
99 km · quickest by road, 2h 27m · £11–15
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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 Staincross, 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 Staincross has

YScheduled flightsLeeds, West Yorkshire (LBA), 32 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerriesLeeds Water Taxi Dock, 22 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, 5 km.

53.591°, -1.500°

Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, the population now falls within the Darton East ward of the Metropolitan Borough of Barnsley. The village also gave its name to the Staincross wapentake in the West Riding of Yorkshire. It is situated about 3 miles (4.8 km) from Barnsley, and 8 miles (13 km) from Wakefield.

How locals move

Getting around Staincross 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: Badics (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.