Village and civil parish in West Yorkshire, England

West Bretton

West Bretton is a village and civil parish in Wakefield, West Yorkshire, England.

Plan a trip to West Bretton→From Manchester, Greater Manchester

Every way there

Manchester, Greater Manchester → West Bretton
47 km · quickest by road, 1h 31m · £6–8
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Nottingham, Leicestershire → West Bretton
79 km · quickest by road, 1h 41m · £8–11
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Liverpool → West Bretton
96 km · quickest by road, 2h 13m · £10–14
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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 West Bretton, 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 West Bretton has

YScheduled flightsLeeds, West Yorkshire (LBA), 28 km
NTrains and coachesno timetable feed known for this country
YFerriesLeeds Water Taxi Dock, 19 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: Wakefield, 8 km.

53.619°, -1.567°

It lies close to junction 38 of the M1 motorway at Haigh. It has a population of 546, reducing to 459 at the 2011 Census.

How locals move

Getting around West Bretton 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: User:J3Mrs (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.