Burley is just a stone’s throw from Leeds City Centre, less than hour’s walk along the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Like most suburbs, it...

Our final stop on the Selby Line (for now, at least) is Micklefield, a former mining village that is fast becoming another detached...

Cross Gates is a suburb of Leeds, but unlike many it isn’t an ancient village. Instead, it seems to have largely been a cross roads...

Woodlesford is located about six miles from Leeds city centre. It has existed since at least the twelfth century, and was originally...

Outwood is a former pit village that remained tiny until the nineteen seventies, when urban sprawl caused by the building of new houses...

Glasshoughton is just to the south of Castleford, of which it is effectively a suburb. Before that, it was a separate village called...

Featherstone is a town located between Wakefield and Pontefract, a pair of more famous neighbours both of which tourists are far more...

Streethouse is a small former mining village surrounded by farmland some distance east of Wakefield. It is wholly unremarkable and not...

Below Fitzwilliam, the Wakefield Line splits into two, with one branch continuing to Thurnscoe and the other to Adwick le Street, both of...

A short distance down the line from Sandal & Agbrigg, lies the small village of Fitzwilliam, close to the town of Hemsworth. It isn’t a...

The first stop down the Wakefield Line is at Sandal & Agbrigg, a station serving adjacent settlements of which one is more prominent than...

The village of Darton is located on the banks of the River Dearne, and sits on the border between South and West Yorkshire that was...