Monkhill Lane Orchard Head Lane

Monkhill Lane Orchard Head Lane is a bus stop in Wakefield, England. Monkhill Lane Orchard Head Lane is situated near the spring St Ives‘ Well, as well as near Midgley Rise Pond.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Pontefract Castle and Pontefract Monkhill railway station.

Pontefract Castle

Castle

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Pontefract Castle is a castle ruin in the town of Pontefract, in West Yorkshire, England. King Richard II is thought to have died there. It was the site of a series of sieges during the 17th-century English Civil War. Pontefract Castle is situated 1 mile south of Monkhill Lane Orchard Head Lane.

Pontefract Monkhill railway station

Railway station

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Pontefract Monkhill is the busiest railway station in the market town of Pontefract, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Pontefract Line, 14 miles south-east of Leeds. Pontefract Monkhill railway station is situated 3,200 feet south of Monkhill Lane Orchard Head Lane.

Pontefract Tanshelf railway station

Railway station

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Photo: Zath Ras, CC BY 2.5.

Pontefract Tanshelf is the most central of the three railway stations that serve the market town of Pontefract, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Pontefract Line, 8 miles east of Wakefield Kirkgate, with services operated by Northern Trains. Pontefract Tanshelf railway station is situated 1 mile southwest of Monkhill Lane Orchard Head Lane.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Pontefract and Airedale.

Pontefract

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Pontefract is a market town in West Yorkshire. It's one of the "Five Towns" east of the city of Wakefield, and a commuter town for Leeds. in 2021 its population was 40,000.

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.

Glasshoughton

Suburb

Photo: David Pickersgill, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Glasshoughton is a neighbourhood of Castleford in the Wakefield district of West Yorkshire, England. The area is next to Junction 32 of the M62 motorway and the Glasshoughton railway station, and borders Pontefract.

Monkhill Lane Orchard Head Lane

Type: Bus stop
Category: transport
Location: Wakefield, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

53.70693° or 53° 42′ 25″ north

Longitude

-1.30908° or 1° 18′ 33″ west

Open location code

9C5WPM4R+Q9

OpenStreetMap ID

node 496718710

OpenStreetMap feature

highway=bus_stop

OpenStreetMap feature

public_transport=platform

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: St Ives‘ Well and Midgley Rise Pond.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: Spital Hardwick Lane Orchard Head Lane and Spittal Hardwick Lane Ridgedale Mount.

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