Wheldon
Wheldon is a village in Wakefield, England. Wheldon is situated nearby to the village New Fryston, as well as near the neighborhood Wheldale.Places of Interest
Highlights include Fairburn Ings RSPB reserve and Wheldon Road.
Fairburn Ings RSPB reserve
Nature reserve
Photo: David Pickersgill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Wheldon Road
Stadium
Photo: Me677, Public domain.
Wheldon Road is the home ground of Castleford Tigers rugby league club in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England. It is on Wheldon Road, just outside Castleford town centre. The record attendance of 25,449 was for a Challenge Cup match in 1935.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include New Fryston and Airedale.
New Fryston
Village
Photo: David Pickersgill, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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.
Airedale
Suburb
Airedale is a suburb in the town of Castleford, West Yorkshire, England. It consists mainly of Local Authority Housing. It borders with Ferry Fryston. The ward of the City of Wakefield called Airedale and Ferry Fryston had a population of 14,811 at the 2011 Census.
Fairburn
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
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…
Wheldon
- Type: Village
- Category: locality
- Location: Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
53.73367° or 53° 44′ 1″ northLongitude
-1.31465° or 1° 18′ 53″ westOpen location code
9C5WPMMP+F4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1628454279OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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