How to reach Saltaire and Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal by bus/train?
Replies: 8 - Last Post: Oct 2, 2012 3:23 AM Last Post By: hanna71
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How to reach Saltaire and Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal by bus/train?
I´m a big fan of archaeology and history and I like to visit less-known places. I think I could combine these things by visiting the UNESCO Heritage sites Saltaire and Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal.I need a bit help with transportation. I´ll use trains or buses, I don´t have a possibility to drive a car nor taxi. I´ll arrive to Bradford from Manchester and then I want to visit Saltaire on a same day. That should be easy, right?
Next day my plan is to visit Fountains Abbey and Studley Royal near Ripon and continue to Durham. I have difficulties to find info about public transportation. Does anyone know what/how I do that? Any help is highly appreciated!
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Saltaire should be easy - it has its own stationThe rest can be done with difficulty, but it's not impossible
There is one bus a day (at 0915) from Ripon to Studley Royal. - it gives you around 4 hours there and returns you to Fountains Abbey where you can have 1-2 hours
http://www.procterscoaches.com/pdf/Service%20139.pdf is the timetable - Studley Royal is near Aldfield
http://www.yorkshiretravel.net/welcome.do will also be useful
There may be more buses in the summer - it's not clear when you are travelling
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Just to add that in addition to the train, from Bradford to Saltaire there's a bus every few minutes. The mill is a short walk off the main road between Bradford and keighley.To visit Fountains and Studley and go on to Durham won't be too easy - trains to Durham from York Thirsk and Northallerton, but there are no through buses or even National Express coaches, so you'll need to reach one of those rail stations
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Hi....The nearest train station to Studley Park and Fountains Abbey is Ripon.
From there, you have a choice of buses there and back....
http://www.fountainsabbey.org.uk/downloads/Times_0411_Fountains.pdf
The walk along the B6265(Studley Road) is very pleasant too.
It follows right alongside Studley Park and down to The Abbey - and takes about 45(ish) minutes to walk.
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#3 billy - I've lived in Yorkshire since 1976 and Ripon hasn't had a train station since before I moved here - had you forgotten about Dr Beeching??7
i fyour arriving by train from Manchester into Bradford you'll arrive into Bradford Interchange and you'd then need to walk across town to Bradfrod Foster Square to get a train to Saltaire.easier way is to get a bus from Bradford Interchange (the 665 Keighley bus) to Saltaire.
ask the driver to drop you off at the top of Victoria Road and it's a short walk down into the village.
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Thanks for your help. Unfortenatly I only visited Saltaire, not Ripon. It was the floods I was worried about and I couldn't find ingo if they had affected Ripon. So I went from Bradford ti Durham straight (eell, not really straight since the train made some detour because of the floods). But next time I'm in the area I definatly visit Ripon!ADVERTISEMENT
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