Pontefract Road Spurries Avenue

Pontefract Road Spurries Avenue is a bus stop in Wakefield, England. Pontefract Road Spurries Avenue is situated nearby to the school The Vale Primary Academy, as well as near Knottingley railway station.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Knottingley railway station and St Andrew’s Church, Ferrybridge.

Knottingley railway station

Railway station

Photo: Zath Ras, CC BY 2.5.

Knottingley railway station serves the town of Knottingley, in West Yorkshire, England. It lies on the Pontefract Line and is 16 miles south-east of Leeds; services are operated by Northern Trains. Knottingley railway station is situated 1,700 feet east of Pontefract Road Spurries Avenue.

St Andrew’s Church, Ferrybridge

Church

Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

St Andrew’s Church, Ferrybridge is situated 2,600 feet northwest of Pontefract Road Spurries Avenue.

Ferry Bridge

Bridge

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Ferry Bridge is a historic bridge, connecting Ferrybridge in West Yorkshire with Brotherton in North Yorkshire, in England. There may have been a bridge over the River Aire at this location in the Anglo-Saxon period, which has been supposed to have been destroyed in 1070. Ferry Bridge is situated 3,700 feet north of Pontefract Road Spurries Avenue.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ferrybridge and Knottingley.

Ferrybridge

Village

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Ferrybridge is a village in West Yorkshire, England. Ferrybridge lies at a historically important crossing of the River Aire which borders the North Yorkshire village of Brotherton.

Knottingley

Town

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Knottingley is a town in the City of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, England on the River Aire and the old A1 road before it was bypassed as the A1. Historically part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, it has a population of 13,503, increasing to 13,710 for the City of Wakefield ward at the 2011 Census.