Fairburn
Fairburn is a small village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. Situated approximately 10 miles east of Leeds, the village lies close to the A1 motorway and the M62 motorway and until 2005, when the A1 motorway was opened, Fairburn was divided…| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 819 residents
- Description: village and civil parish in North Yorkshire, UK
- Also known as: “Fairburn, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fairburn Ings RSPB reserve and Church of All Saints, Ledsham.
Fairburn Ings RSPB reserve
Nature reserve
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Fairburn Ings Nature Reserve is a protected area in West Yorkshire, England, noted for its avian biodiversity. The reserve has recorded around 280 bird species, remarkable for an inland site in the United Kingdom.
Church of All Saints, Ledsham
Church
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The Church of All Saints is an Anglican building in the village of Ledsham, West Yorkshire, England, some 10 miles east of Leeds. Parts of the church are originally from the Anglo-Saxon period, which has been the basis of the claim that it is the oldest church still standing within West Yorkshire, and one of the county's oldest buildings. Church of All Saints, Ledsham is situated 1½ miles northwest of Fairburn.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Burton Salmon and Brotherton.
Burton Salmon
Village
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Burton Salmon is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England, close to the border with West Yorkshire, and approximately 3 miles north from Knottingley, on the A162 road.
Brotherton
Village
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Brotherton is a village and civil parish in the county of North Yorkshire, England. The village is on a border with the City of Wakefield and West Yorkshire.
New Fryston
Village
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New Fryston is a small former coal mining village in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England, located in a river bend on the south bank of the River Aire. The colliery opened in the 1870s in the grounds of the now-demolished Fryston Hall and was named Fryston, and the village was built in the 1880s to house some of the miners.
Fairburn
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Fairburn, Selby District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.74413° or 53° 44′ 39″ northLongitude
-1.28475° or 1° 17′ 5″ westPopulation
819Elevation
118 feet (36 metres)Open location code
9C5WPPV8+M3OpenStreetMap ID
node 321759303OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
6269419Wikidata ID
Q1883947
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Turkish—“Fairburn” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Fairburn”
- Dutch: “Fairburn”
- French: “Fairburn”
- Irish: “Fairburn”
- Italian: “Fairburn (North Yorkshire)”
- Italian: “Fairburn”
- Ladin: “Fairburn”
- Persian: “فربرن، یورکشر شمالی”
- Polish: “Fairburn”
- Russian: “Фэрберн”
- Spanish: “Fairburn”
- Swedish: “Fairburn, England”
- Swedish: “Fairburn”
- Turkish: “Fairburn, North Yorkshire”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Fairburn Church Hall and Wild Goose Gallery.
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