Man with a Van Austhorpe

Austhorpe: what to know before moving day

The houses around Whitkirk Lane are laid out as crescents and closes: Kingswear Crescent, Close, Garth and Glen, Lulworth Avenue, Crescent, Drive and Walk, Detroit Avenue and Drive, and the Kennerleigh streets, with Austhorpe Lane and Austhorpe View reaching Selby Road. A small parade near the Whitkirk Lane end has a pharmacy, the Austhorpe View Surgery, a newsagent and a fish restaurant, and Austhorpe Primary School and Green Park are close.

John Smeaton, who designed the longest-standing Eddystone Lighthouse, was born in Austhorpe, and Austhorpe Hall, dated 1694, is Grade II* listed. The old township was bigger than today's suburb and took in Cross Gates, Colton Common and Barrowby.

How the van gets to Austhorpe

The Skyliner Roundabout, on the old ring road now numbered B6902, is the way in: Whitkirk Lane leaves the ring road there, and Austhorpe Lane joins Selby Road. Junction 46 of the M1 is a short run east along Selby Road, and from Bradford the M62 and the M1 bring the van round to it.

The drive from Bradford is roughly 30 to 45 minutes. That is an estimate from route data, not a timed run, and traffic changes it.

Services for Austhorpe

Each service below links to its Garforth page, which covers how the job works in and around Garforth.

House Removals Flat & Apartment Removals Student Removals Furniture & Large Item Transport Sofa & Bed Delivery Appliance Delivery Same-Day Courier Business Deliveries Marketplace & eBay Collection Packing Service Long Distance & Nationwide

Austhorpe: questions before you book

Does Austhorpe have its own parish council?

There is an Austhorpe civil parish; its council reported nil-balance accounts for the year to March 2017, and part of it, with Thorpe Park, lies in the Garforth and Swillington ward. The streets around Whitkirk Lane, though, are recorded by postcodes.io as unparished and in the Temple Newsam ward. The postcode is what the van needs.